Tag Archives: activity village

Co-ordinate Grid Copy Pictures

Posted on July 11, 2018 by

The kids have looked at co-ordinates before and as we are working on Geometry at the moment it seemed like a good time to go back and revisit it.  But we have also been slowing down the learning activities this … Continue reading →

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Encouraging writing with little booklets

Posted on June 20, 2018 by

I am always on the lookout for fun writing activities for the kids.  Both of mine have incredible imaginations and come up with lots of stories but they are not big on putting the stories down into a written format.  … Continue reading →

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Why we have been using so many Activity Village pages

Posted on May 22, 2018 by

Activity Village have added a lot of new and interesting pages since I wrote my last general Activity Village pages post about 18 months ago.  And I feel like they are adding more and more content which is making them … Continue reading →

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Butterfly suncatchers

Posted on May 13, 2018 by

Last weekend we released our butterflies from their Insect Lore Butterfly Garden and as exciting as the whole thing was my daughter said she has missed having the butterflies in the house.  So we thought we would turn our sliding … Continue reading →

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The Life and Times of William Shakespeare

Posted on May 6, 2018 by

We were sent a lovely set of Big CAT readers over a month ago and we have been loving them.  We used the Tutankhamun’s Tomb book when we went to do a tomb painting workshop at the British Museum and … Continue reading →

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Talking about Angles

Posted on May 4, 2018 by

We have spoken about different angles before but just briefly so I decided it was time to start looking at them a bit closer.  To begin with we just stuck to three angles – right angles, acute angles and obtuse … Continue reading →

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Easy Flower Wreath

Posted on April 28, 2018 by

This past week I spotted some lovely cheerful looking flower cut-out images on Activity Village and I immediately printed them, even though I had no idea what we were going to do with them.  And as often happens with my … Continue reading →

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