Some of your kids might read Time for Kids regularly in school. I always knew this publication had a website, but I had never noticed the section called "Graphic Organizers." You might want to check it out. There are blank forms for charts, organization, problem solving, story maps, analzying photos, etc. There are even Venn Diagram charts. (I hate Venn diagrams) Grades K-6 are covered.
SO, WHAT DO YOU THINK? Are current events covered enough in your child's school? Obviously, Time for Kids is a nice resource for that in the classroom. But, I wonder how practical it is for teachers to fit more current events time into a classroom curriculum. Perhaps that's a job for which parents need to pick up the slack. Depending on age, sitting a kid in front of the news every so often could be a good or bad thing. Obviously, you don't want your seven-year-old sitting in front of a series of depressing news stories. I just figure it's important to get kids more involved with the real world outside of the classroom....especially when my 10-year-old keeps whining, "It's all the economy's fault!" when I say "no" to a purchase. Lately, he just doesn't get it that he's not getting that $400 Lego Star Wars Death Star set even if our national debt soared suddenly into an equally huge surplus and I won the Lottery three times in a row.
At what age do you think we should be pushing the news into kids' lives a bit more?
