Letter mazes worksheets

Worksheets and fun activities of letter mazes. Find the way between two items that start with the same letter that the maze deals with. In every page there are two mazes: one of upper case and the second of lower case, that you have to go through to link one object to another. 

PS- To save paper and help our planet, you can print on used pages, on the blank side ♥

Letter G maze

Letter A maze

Letter B maze

Letter C maze

Letter D maze

Letter E maze

Letter F maze

Letter H maze

Letter I maze

Letter J maze

Letter K maze

Letter L maze

Letter M maze

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Letter O maze

Letter P maze

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National Geographic Day - January 27th

On January 27, 1888, National Geographic was founded. The goal of the organization was to explore the world and promote knowledge in the general public. Nine months after it was founded, its first magazine was published and since then it has been published regularly, once a month, 12 times a year.

The first director of National Geographic was Alexander Graham Bell, the British scientist and inventor who invented Bell's phone (many think he was the one who invented the telephone, but there is controversy over this and some consider Antonio Mauchi the inventor of the telephone prototype).

For almost 130 years, the magazine has reviewed and published thousands of topics, presenting its readers with articles and pictures of distant lands, remote islands, magical and breathtaking landscapes, rare animals, wonderful plants and special and exotic customs of people from other cultures.

At first the magazine consisted of many text articles and few drawings. But when they saw that the popularity of the sheets containing many images was greater, the publishers switched to extensive pictorial content.

Thousands of issues have covered the magazine since its inception. From beautiful dancers on the island of Bali to brutal killing of animals by hunters. Thanks to the magazine people got to know new things that never occurred to them and were not even able to imagine. Thanks to him the distant and unfamiliar world became closer and closer.

The articles published in the monthly deal with a variety of topics such as history, science, geography and geology, and from time to time a special edition is published dedicated to a particular topic. Recently, the magazine has been particularly vocal on environmental issues such as deforestation and endangered species. The magazine has won many accolades for the beautiful and quality photography and the quality of the booklets and is well known due to the detailed maps that are published alongside articles about various places around the world.

On September 1, 1997, the National Geographic television channel was founded, which is a documentary channel that deals mainly with geography, hiking, animals and science.

One of the most famous stories of the magazine, is the story of the girl who scribbled exile from Afghanistan. In 1985, a photo of photographer Steve McCurry was published on the front page, showing the face of an Afghan girl with bright green eyes and a penetrating look. The girl's figure became famous all over the world. After the United States invaded Afghanistan, they began searching for it and in 2002 it was identified as an exile, an refugee of Afghan origin who fled to the United States during the war. The story of her life was published in the March 2003 issue and a documentary series was made about it on the National Geographic television channel. The organization has set up a foundation named after Sharbat Gola, whose funds have established a number of schools in Kabul, Afghanistan, and has promoted the education of girls in Afghanistan and other countries in the region, including food and drink concerns.

The Afghan Girl - Link to the article  

The organization has supported other important and significant projects such as the North Pole Expedition of Robert Piri and Matthew Anson, Antarctica Exploration by Robert Barlett, the excavations at Hiram Bingham's Machu Picchu, the first flight over Richard Byrd's South Pole, the Underwater Diving of Jacques Costo, Jane Goodall's Chimpanzee Exploration, Diane Pussy's Gorilla Exploration, George Bass' Archaeological Exploration, Robert Blard's Decked Titanic Discovery, Paul Zerno's Dinosaur Exploration and more. 

In honor of National Geographic Day, look for issues of the magazine at home or at your parents 'or grandparents' house. In many libraries you can also browse the magazines. If you have the TV channel, watch interesting shows. We tend to take the existence of the National Geographic for granted, but when you think about it, its contribution to humanity is so important, enormous and significant and without it we would have known much less and perhaps the development of humanity would have been slower.

Link to National Geographic website

National Geographic title page (source)  

January 27 is also International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Chocolate Cake Day

International Holocaust Remembrance Day – January 27

January 27 was chosen unanimously in 2005 by the United Nations General Assembly as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On that date in 1945, the Red Army entered the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex and liberated the 7500 remnants of the detainees, those who somehow survived the atrocities inflicted on them by the Nazi camp guardians. Since 2005, International Holocaust Remembrance day is observed annually by the United Nations member states in commemoration of that event and in honor of the victims and the survivors of the Holocaust.

Some facts you should know about the Holocaust

·         Approximately one third of the Jewish people in the world, about 6 million men, women and children were massacred by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Holocaust. Altogether it is estimated that about 11 million people were murdered by the Nazis in the holocaust.

·         Beside Jews, the Nazis persecuted and murdered Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses crippled people and other minority groups, sending them to forced labor and extermination camp. Millions of people of all ages belonging to these groups as well anyone suspected of resistance to the Nazi regime were ruthlessly murdered.

·         At least 1.1 million children were slaughtered by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Holocaust.

·         In October 1941, more than 50,000 civilians, most of them Jews, were brutally murdered by Rumanian Fascist forces under the orders of Lieutenant-Colonel Nicolae Deleanu who participated personally in the carnage. The event is known as the Odessa Massacre.

·         In 1945, General Dwight D. Eisenhower(who was the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force during World War II and later served as president of the United States) foresaw the forthcoming attempts to deny the Holocaust. He therefore summoned press reporters to witness the effects of the atrocities inflicted by the Nazis on their victims.

·         Bergen-Belsen, the concentration camp in which Anne Frankperished, was liberated by British troops a few weeks after her death.

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 Japan allowed Jewish refugees shelter within its borders in spite of protests by Nazi Germany, Japan's military ally during the war.

·         Hitler planned to collect thousands of personal artifacts that were pillaged from the Jews who were deported from Bohemia and Moravia to extermination camps in order to create a "museum of anextinct race" after the war.

·         Hitler never set foot in a concentration camp.

·         Witold Pilecki, a Roman Catholic Polish soldier who served as a member of the Polishresistance, volunteered to be imprisoned in the Auschwitz death camp in 1941 in order to gather intelligence, escape and inform the Allied forces of the Nazi atrocities carried out in the camp. He managed to escape after nearly two and a half years of imprisonment and presented the Allies an official report known as Witold's Report.

·       The Mosque in Paris helped Jews escape the Nazis by providing them with false Islamic identities during World  War II.

·         Denial of the Holocaust is considered a crime in seventeen countries, including Germany and Austria.

·         More than 870,000 Jews were murdered in Treblinka by a staff of no more than 150 members.

·         Descendants of a Moslem family who gave shelter to Jews in Bosnia during the holocaust were later rescued by Israel during the Bosnian genocidein1995. They immigrated to Israel and converted to Judaism.



And last but not least, here's a fact not known to many of us:

Dr. Ernst Leitz II, header of the Leitz optics company and  producer of the Leica cameras, along side with his daughter, saved hundreds of Jewish employees of his company and their families who were persecuted by the Nazi regime under the Nuremberg Laws. He did this in the years 1938-1939 by assigning those employees to sales departments abroad, mainly in the United States, England, France and Hong Kong in an operation known as the Leica Freedom Train. Elsie Kuehn-Leittz, Ernst's daughter, was caught and imprisoned by the Gestapo but was eventually freed. For her and her father's humanitarian efforts, she was awarded numerous honors after the war had ended. See also a short video on Youtube on this subject.



 More pertinent fact about the Holocaust can be found on the Web, as for example in the following recommended link.

Australia Day coloring pages

Coloring pages for Australia day which observed annually on 26 January. Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. This day celebrates 1788 landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove and raising of the Union Flag by Arthur Phillip following days of exploration of Port Jackson in New South Wales. The coloring pages of Australia day should be painted in bright, happy and vibrant colors because it is a happy day and you should use a lot of red, blue and white colors, which are the flagship colors of Australia. On this page you will find a great opportunity to paint the coloring pages of Australia Day as you wish. Coloring pages of Australia flag, Australia map, Australia symbols, nature, animals and people. Fun coloring!

Choose the coloring page of Australia Day you want to paint, print and paint for your enjoyment. To print the page you would like to color, click on page and then click Ctrl+P. Have fun!

PS- To save paper and help our planet, you can print on used pages, on the blank side ♥

kids with flags of Australia 

Cute Koala bear

Kids with Australia flags

Kangaroo mother and son

Happy Australia Day Koala

Australia flags

Sydney

Emu, Koala bear and Kangaroo

Here are more than just a few facts about Australia that may interest you

·         Australia, extending over an area of 7,692,024 km² (including inland water bodies), is the sixth largest country in the world.

•   For more than 40,000 years prior to the arrival of British deportees, Australia was populated by Indigenous Australians (aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders).
• Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria, was first named Batmania.

·         Australia's economy, measured by GDP (Gross domestic product) ranked 12^th largest in the world in 2012, with a per capita income ranking 5^th in the world.
·         Australia had no economic recession since 1981.
·         Australia's human development index ranks 2^nd in the world.
·         Australia's maritime borders contain 8,222 islands that are smaller than the mainland.
·         Australia has more than 10,000 beaches. It would take you over 27 years to spend a day on each beach.

·         Sharks patrol the vicinity of every beach in Australia. Altogether there are 166 species of sharks in Australian seas, but only three of them are a significant threat to humans. To reduce the danger, part of the popular beaches in Queensland and New South Wales are protected by shark nets. However, there is much criticism against these nets, claiming they are not effective barriers (though statistics clearly show a significant reduction in human fatalities due to these nets), and further more they kill all kinds of large fish that are caught in them, not only the dangerous sharks.

·         Excessive shark fishing has decimated the shark population.

·         Australia claims territorial sovereignty of 43% of the Antarctic area, estimated at 5,896,500 km² and being the largest of all national claims to territories in Antarctica.

·         It is claimed by many that Australia is guilty of genocide among its indigenous natives between the years 1910 to 1970 as part of a policy based on the belief in white superiority.

·         There are more kangaroos than people in Australia.

Australia's unofficial national animal and unofficial national bird are the red kangaroo and the emu respectively.

·         Australia exports camels to Saudi Arabia.

 Howard Edward Holt, Australia's 17^th prime minister, went swimming on December 17 1967. He disappeared from view of his friends that stayed on shore, never to be seen again.

·         75% of the animal species indigenous to Australia have not been identified.

·          Ten of the deadliest snakes in the world are found in Australia.

·         The most recent human fatality from a snake bite in Australia occurred in 1981.

·         Mount Disappointment, located 60 km (37 mi) north of Melbourne, was so named by British explorers Hume and Hovell because after an arduous climb to its summit they were disappointed to find that the distant Port Philip Bay which they expected to see from the top was completely obstructed from view by the trees that covered the mountain.

·         Australia has a perennial stream called "Never Never River".

·         Elizabeth's bookshops, with four second-hand bookstores on both sides of the Australian continent, offer online "Blind dates with books". The books are wrapped in an opaque sheet of paper on which only a summary of the contents is printed, to prevent the customer from judging the book by its cover.

     Burger King restaurants in Australia are called "Hungry Jack's".

  The most popular pizza in Australia, Hawaii Pizza (made with pork and pineapple) was invented in Canada.

Australia's largest cattle ranch, Anna CreekStation, which extends over roughly 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km²; 9,400 sq. mi), is the largest cattle ranch in the world. It is more than seven times the size of the biggest cattle ranch in the USA, King Ranch in Texas.

·         The areas of Australia and of continental USA (all states in North America) are practically the same.

·         In November 2009, about 6000 wild camels invaded Docker River, a small town 370 miles west of Alice Springs. They were desperately seeking water.

·         Koalas, among Australia's favorite tourist attractions, are in danger of extinction because more than half of them suffer from chlamydia infection which causes them a very painful death.

·         There were more than ten million koalas in Australia before the British settlers arrived. Now there are less than 43,000.

·         The boomerang has been used as a weapon by the aborigines for thousands of years. However, the oldest-known boomerang, estimated to be about 20,000 years old, was found in Poland.

One in ten people polled in a survey conducted in Britain in 2013 by a deodorant manufacturer believed that the distance from Britain to the moon is shorter than it is to Australia.

·         Australia's Highway 1 is the longest national highway in the world. It is about 14,500 km long and circumvents the entire Australian continent. It is second in length to the Pan American Highway which is an international highway.

·         Australia's national science agency won a $229 million suit against nine American companies based on the claim that its scientists invented essential components of WI-FI technology which those companies used in the production of hi-tech devices.

·         A law in the Australian state Victoria permits only certified electricians to change a lightbulb.

·         The law in Australia imposes a fine on citizens who fail to vote.

·         Mount Wingen, a hill in New South Wales, is commonly known as Burning Mountain because of natural coal that that is burning under its surface. It is estimated that the coal has been on fire for the last 6,000 years.

·         In 1892, 238 Australians left the continent and immigrated to Paraguay, where they founded a utopian socialist settlement called "Nueva Australia" (New Australia).

·         In Australia, as well as in 22 other countries, it is illegal to declaw cats.

·         Australia's countryside offers the traveler a rich diversity of wild flourishing plants, many of them endemic to the continent. Not a few of them are poisonous plants, some of them deadly to humans. For example, it is strongly advised to beware of skin contact with the leaves of the gympie-gympie (Dendrocnide moroides), which is a sort of nettle. A person who was exposed to the leaves of this plant reported extremely acute pain that lasted for several days, followed by stinging that was felt for two years.

·         In 2009, a squad of sharp-shooters was stationed on a beach near Sydney harbor to protect penguins from predators.

·         In 2009, a wild pig sneaked into a campsite in Western Australia, stole 18 bottles of beer which he guzzled. Totally plastered, he then picked a brawl with a cow that finally chased him off.

·         Australian Kangaroo One Ton Gold Coin, comprising 1000kg of 99.99% pure gold, is the most expensive legal coin in the world. Its worth is estimated at more than 50 million Australian dollars.

·         In 2004, a group of Australian gay-rights activists founded what they called the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands in Australia's uninhabited Territory of the Coral Sea Islands.

·         The color of the water in Lake Hillier in Western Australia is bright pink. So is the color of samples taken from the lake. Scientists suspect this phenomenon to be due to the presence of algae in the water that produce carotenoids (the pigment contained in carrots).

In 1859, a landowner in the state of Victoria released into the wild 24 rabbits which he had imported from England for sport hunting. Within a few years, those 24 rabbits multiplied into millions. Nowadays the descendants of those first few rabbits are flooding Australia's croplands, causing significant damages in loss of crops and erosion of land across the continent.

·         The Australian political SEX party, founded in 2009, is active in promoting liberal issues such as legalization of cannabis, euthanasia (mercy killing), abortions, abolishment of censorship and cancellation of tax exemption to the church and other religious organizations.

·         Australian police was initially manned by prisoners who were accredited with good behavior.

·         The first "dead heart" transplant in the world was performed by Australian surgeons in October 2014.

·         The number of Australians that gamble in one way or the other exceeds 80% of the adult population, the highest rate in the world.

·         Australia harnesses the motion of ocean waters to produce electric power and to desalinate water at the same time.

·         Australia produces 31% of the world's uranium supply.

·         Australians break the world record of meat consumption. They eat an average of 90 kg of meat per person annually.

·         Two thirds of the Australians are diagnosed as having skin cancer by the time they reach the age of 70.

·         In 2015, a new species of fish was discovered in North Australia, receiving the name "Blue Bastard". The fish, whose scientific name is Plectorhinchus caeruleonothus, turns blue on adulthood. It is also elusive and combative, "a bastard to catch", as fishermen say.

Multiplication table mazes

Fun to learn the multiplication table! Mazes for learning the multiplication table are fun worksheets that aim to teach the multiplication table using mazes, each of which deals with multiples of numbers, from 2 to 10. In each maze you have to find the way from the beginning to the end, in its multiplication path in 1 to its multiplication in 10. Each worksheet has a bonus: coloring the decorated number. To print the maze page click on it and then save to your computer or print immediately by Ctrl + P.

PS- To save paper and help our planet, you can print on used pages, on the blank side ♥

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Multiplication maze 10