I am a retired teacher who wrote 7 photocopiable books for Teachers and one book for children Union Jack Colouring Book.
The 7books covered Geography, History (Medieval/ Tudor/ Stuart), Travel and Transport, Myself and Events (this included diaries), Race Against Time Stories (SATS based), Church Dates for Children plus Nature and Seasons (including Sport). These 7 books have been mainly broken into a number of segments.
Challenging the Physical Elements, my Geography book, is complete.
I am a retired teacher who wrote 7 photocopiable books for Teachers and one book for children Union Jack Colouring Book.
The 7books covered Geography, History (Medieval/ Tudor/ Stuart), Travel and Transport, Myself and Events (this included diaries), Race Against Time Stories (SATS based), Church Dates for Children plus Nature and Seasons (including Sport). These 7 books have been mainly broken into a number of segments.
Challenging the Physical Elements, my Geography book, is complete.
Some information which might encourage children to write a story about going on a canoe trip.
10 reasons for taking up canoeing
Canoe Equipment
Canoeing on the River 1 can used like a comic strip. Canoeing 2 and Kayaking a dangerous river are vocabulary sheets. Children of different abilities should be able to use these sheets.( Illustrations by David Woodroffe).
Clip art of different canoes and kayaks.
Joyful Clemantine Wamariya at the age of 6 , with her older sister Claire,was forced to leave her home in Rwanda following the Rwandan Genocide in April. 1994. They went first to their grandparents but they were also targeted. They sought refuge in 7 countries over 6 years until they were granted refugee asylum in the USA in 2000.
She began formal schooling at the age of 13.
In 2006 she submitted an essay for a national high school contest on Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust Memoir, Night. She won and was invited to go on the Oprah Winfrey show with her sister. To their wonderful surprise their parents, who they knew had survived the genocide,had been flown in from Rwanda. They had spoken on the 'phone but had not seen them for 12 years.
After her appearance on the show event organizers, especially in the humanitarian aid sector, have invited her to speak.
While at Yale she carried her storytelling across the USA for the United Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). President Obama in recognition of her work appointer her to the Board.
She has since appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show 3 times and her appearances have gained her international attention.
She studied comparative literature at Yale University.
After university she met Elizabeth Weil. What started as a feature- length article two years later in 2018 resulted in The Girl Who Smiles Beads: A story about War and What comes After. The book became a New York Times best seller
Clemantine now works as a human rights advocate fighting for the unprivileged
and championing justice.
Elif Shafak (nee Bigin), born in Strasbourg, France has published 19 works. They have been translated into 55 languages and been nominated for several literacy awards. (See list)
She advocated for women’s rights, minority rights and freedom of speech.
Her themes include women’s lives, immigration and culture.
She believes storytelling has the power to change the world.
She is a passionate supporter of minorities for women and the freedom of expression.
Sources
Wikipedia
*RISE *by Maliha Abidi
I have put together a lot of information about the Winter Games in Beijing.
There is a complete list of all the GB competitors and their events. There is a sheet explaining the difference between luge,bobsled and Skeleton.
There is also a safety sheet, many of the events are obviously dangerous.
Sheets 7-12 are about Beijing and the Winter games
There are a 2 Phrase and Vocabulary sheets - Winter Olympics, Beijing-general sports sheet, plus Beijing Dreams and The day of your event.*
There are 3 differentiated poetry aids.
There are several sheets for 'best’work- a comic strip, a 'decorated ’ sheet and a set of mini skaters and skiers. I have also included a Wordsearch sheet with answers. There is also information about clothing.
Please note I have created separately phrase and vocabulary sheets on all 14 events. For the 6 GB events there is also information about this year’s competitors and some passed success stories.
Note Based on recent pictures of Beijing all the outdoor events are going to happen on artificial snow - there is very little real snow in Beijing. This is no surprise to the competitors -it has often happened at other Winter venues.
Ellie Smeding, a long track speed skater, was added after all these sheets had been loaded. GB now has a total of 50 competitors. ,
Tom Pidcock and Bethany Shriever have just been named. 3.2.2024
Included:-
Official sheet
6 Phrase and Voc. sheets ( all slightly different)
Sheet on Mountain Biking
Poetry Aid
2 ‘blanks’ for best copy
2. Word searches -with answers)
2 profiles from Wikipedia for Tom Pidock and Betn Shriever
Hope ,these sheets prove useful.
The official sheet will be lengthened and more profiles added as more competitors are revealed in the coming days/weeks.
Robin is the best selling award winning Christian author of over 100 books.
Her books include the Christy MIller and Sierra Jensen series for ten girls plus the Glenbrooke series and Sisterchicks series.
In 2007 she received the Christy award for her novel* Sisterchicks in Gondolas.*
Her Timelesss Stories are now available in Print, Audio, Ebook and Downloads.
In 2013 Becky received a Knight Grant for Reporting On Religion and American Public Life.
She was a senior contributing editor for The Wittenburg Door from 1994 to 2008.
‘The Door’ was a Christian satire and homour bimonthly magazine
It was relaunched in 2021 with Becky serving on the Door’s Board of Directors
Source
Wikipedia
Nancy is an American actress, speaker and author. She is known for her many roles on television.She came to prominence in the 1980s as Michelle Thomas, las partner, on 5 seasons of Matlock.
She is the author of many Christian books such as** Beauty by the Book, The Wonder of his Love, Seeing yourself as God Sees You****.
She married Larry Myres who is a pastor
Source Wikipedia
Lorraine has published over 80 titles since 1982.
There is a series of popular historical fiction revolving around Norwegian immigration inspired by her own heritage.
She was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame, a signature event at Norsk Hostfest in 2012.
Her books have sold more then 5 million copies.
Source
Wikipedia
GB has 8 competitors in paralympic table tennis, 6 men and 2 women
Have included:-
Official sheet
Phrase and Vocabulary sheet
Poetry Aid
2 Word searches Shakehands and TT words answers provided
Information about par table tennis
6 wikipedia male profiles (no profiles for the 2 women)
Paralympics medals
Aaron McKibben bronze team in 2 012
Billy Shilton bronze team in 2020
Rob Davies gold (ind) in 2016
Thomas Matthews bronze(ind) in 2020
Will Bayley gold (ind) in 2026
Gb has only one competitor for Olympic table tennis- Ann Hursey. She is from Wales.
Aged just 10 she was the youngest person to ever represent Wales at a senior level in any sport (Kosovo 2017).
Came third in the women’s doubles event with Charlotte Carey in the Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England in 2022.
Included:-
official sheet
PHrase and Vocabulary sheet
Poetry Aid
2 word searches shakehands and TT vocabulary (answers provided)
Picture of Table Tennis table
England have chosen 33 players for the squad. By June 7th it will be cut to a squad of 26 men.
I have included:-
Phrase and vocabulary sheet
Some short sentences
Large Vocabulary and Phrase sheets
2 differentiated poetry aids
3 Word searches
England’s 33 training squad, 21 competing teams and football terms.
Clip art pictures
Full list of GB competitors
Phrase and Vocabulary sheets (differentiated)
Poetry AIds and 2 ’ liners ’
Best copy sheet
Blank comic strip
Word search (answers provided )
profiles selected Track (100-marathon) plus field (from Wikipedia)
female 10 3
male 9 3 (25 in total)
Clip art