Mother's Day

When is Mother's Day 2012?

Mother's Day will next be celebrated on 13th May 2012 in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, 6th May 2012 in  Spain and 10th March 2013 in the UK.
Let mothers everywhere know how special they are!

Famous People in History Quiz (age 10+)

Go recycle online game (age 8+)

Help Michael recycle! Pick up all the litter in the park and stop all the litterbugs before time runs out!

Storytime 2nd year

Listen and Read the Unit 5 story: My house is too small!

Storytime 1st year

Listen to the Unit 5 story: Chuck's New Clothes

Storytime 5th year

Read and listen to the Unit 5 story: Tilly and  the Tsunami

Unit song 5th year

Sing the Unit 5 song: My holiday

Storytime 6th year

Listen to Unit 5 story: Nasreddin and the pot

Storytime 3rd Year

Click to read the Unit 5 Story: The Robber's Clothes

Unit song 3rd Year

Listen to the Unit 5 song: The marching song...

Romeo and Juliet Game

Help Romeo find his way through Shakespeare Country to rescue Juliet from the balcony! Collect all the roses and watch out for those critters.
Instructions: Use the left and right arrow keys to move and the up arrow key to jump.

Shakespeare's Birthday: April 23rd

Who was William Shakespeare? Click on the photo to see a film about his life

Planet Earth

Look after our planet

"Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.

Kenyan proverb

I am the Earth

Earth Day: April 22nd

Earth Day, which was established in 1970 in the US, is celebrated on 22nd April each year. It is a day to think about our planet and what we can do to keep it special; to think about saving water and energy, reducing pollution, recycling, protecting our animals, trees and plants, and generally getting kids interested in protecting their environment.


Here are some quick ideas for celebrating Earth Day with your children:

• Plant a tree
• Go for a bike ride or a long walk (leave the car behind)
• Hold a nature "scavenger hunt" (send the kids out into the garden or park in teams to collect - or spot - various items on a list you provide)
• Print out some of our posters and place in strategic positions around the house. Talk about saving water when brushing teeth and saving energy by turning off the lights when you leave a room
• Bake your favourite cookie or biscuit recipe and let the kids decorate with icing to look like the planet earth
• Gather family and friends together and combine a picnic or other excursion with a litter clean-up
• Set up a recycling centre in your home or school
• Look through your shelves and find some books to give away via your local charity shop or library 

Posted by Activityvillage.co.uk

New Passwords

These are the new passwords....


1st year.-Cupboard

2nd year.- Hall

3rd year.- Where's my jacket? It's over there, on the chair

4th year.-  Are you scared of crocodiles? Not, not me

5th year.- Where do you go on holidays? What can you do there?

6th year.- What did you do this afternoon? What did you eat?

Unit song 2nd year

Listen to the Unit 5 song: Have you got a pet?

Unit song 1st year

Listen to the unit 5 song: The Clothes song

The TITANIC

On board the TITANIC (aged 13+)

Escolle o pasaxeiro que queres ser e revive os últimos días no Titanic.....

The TITANIC: 100 years after (aged 10+)

THE TITANIC: A tragic story

The Titanic was the largest passenger ship in the world when it was built in 1912 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was like a floating town with passengers from all social classes. Third-class passengers paid between 3and 8 pounds for a one-way ticket to America. First class passengers paid 30 pounds. The Titanic’s first voyage was from Southampton in England, to New York City, USA. The ship left on 10 April 1912 but never arrived at her destination.

 On April 14^th, four days after leaving England, the Titanic was in the North Atlantic. The sea was calm but visibility was low. At 11.40pm, a lookout saw a large iceberg near the ship. 37 seconds later, the Titanic hit the iceberg and water entered the ship. At first the passengers didn’t panic…two hours and 40 minutes later, at 2.20am, the Titanic sank. Of the 2.224 people on board, only 710 survived: there were no enough lifeboats. Most survivors were women, children and the rich: 60% of first-class passengers survived. But only 42% of second-class and less than 25% of third-class passengers survived. The last survivor of the Titanic died in 2009 aged 96. Her name was Millvina Dean and she was two months old when she was rescued from the ship.

100 years after the Titanic tragedy, the world’d most famous ship still fascinates us. The wreck of the Titanic was found in 1985 about 4 km under the sea. James Cameron made his 1997 film, Titanic, using real images of the wreck. It was the highest-grossing film of the all time until Avatar (2009).

Visitors can learn about the Titanic at the new visitor centre n Belfast, Northern Ireland. It’s a giant museum with four wings the shape o Titanic’s hull and it’s built on the site where the Titanic first  entered the water.

If you like this topic, here is a web link with sheets, printables, etc...

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/the_titanic.htm

NEWS: April

NEWS

• APRIL 1st: APRIL FOOL’S DAY
On April Fool’s Day, people all over the world play jokes on each other. Newspapers also play jokes on their readers and publish stories that aren’t true.

• WORLD HEALTH DAY: April 7th
World health day has been celebrated on April 7th since 1950. It marks the founding of the World Health Organization in 1948. Each year they select a theme. The theme this year is Ageing and health: Good health adds life to years.

• HAPPY EASTER: APRIL 8th
Everyone loves chocolate Easter eggs. But have you ever had American jelly beans for Easter? Jelly beans come in more than 50 flavors and lots of different colors. They’re the same shape as Easter eggs- just a lot smaller!

• APRIL 22nd: EARTH DAY
Earth Day is celebrated by more than 500 million people in 175 countries. In the USA, some people plant trees on Earth Day. This helps people understand and preserve the planet. But there is another day to plant trees in the USA: Arbor Day at the end of April….for those who forgot on 22 April!

• FILM OF THE MONTH: JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
This action-adventure film begins when a young adventurer, Sean Anderson, gets a distress call from a mysterious island. Sean and three friends go to the island to rescue its one inhabitant. But it is a place with strange creatures, mountains of gold, dangerous volcanoes, and many, many secrets….

Ten in the bed ( Preprimary)