Ali in OR Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Thinking about this as a possibility for next year. My older dd will be in 8th grade and in her last year of home schooling before public high school. Our possible news sources are the local paper (which we mostly use to point out grammar errors at this point!), Time magazine, PBS, and on-line news sources. I've been thinking maybe read through an article together each week and discuss it, maybe short writing assignments from time to time. If you've managed to make a study of current events part of your weekly routine, what does it look like in your house? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TarynB Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 We use CNN Student News. Free daily 10 minute videos, presented as a student-friendly newscast, available on HLN, as a podcast, or watch on their website. Here is a link that explains it. We do plenty of writing in other subjects, so we just watch on our iPad, then discuss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto2Cs Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 We use CNN Student News. Free daily 10 minute videos, presented as a student-friendly newscast, available on HLN, as a podcast, or watch on their website. Here is a link that explains it. We do plenty of writing in other subjects, so we just watch on our iPad, then discuss. I keep meaning to make use of CNN Student News too! I think we'll just watch and discuss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted April 15, 2013 Author Share Posted April 15, 2013 CNN Student News looks really cool--thanks! I hadn't heard of it before. We just watched today's podcast on iTunes. I thought they did a nice job of teaching as well as reporting, like explaining what income tax is. The girls enjoyed watching it too. This might work for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TarynB Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 CNN Student News looks really cool--thanks! I hadn't heard of it before. We just watched today's podcast on iTunes. I thought they did a nice job of teaching as well as reporting, like explaining what income tax is. The girls enjoyed watching it too. This might work for us. Definitely! I appreciate the teaching built in to the news stories. I'm not ashamed to admit, I've learned plenty from them myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Seems like you have found what you are looking for, but I will put in a mention for Newsademic. It comes out every other week as a PDF. Sometimes I assign him one or two of the advanced activities or direct his attention to a particular article, but not always. He mostly just reads what interests him and tells me about it. I'm saving the editions in a binder, hoping that at the end of 2013 I will get him to choose his top 10 events...or something like that :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Ours is very informal at this point. DD#1 has a alarm clock radio in her room. She listens to a semi-local (country music) station when she can & picks up a lot of national news that way. Then, she asks about it. We discuss & look up topics as necessary. Sometimes, we spend so much time on it, I think I should give her credit on her report card! I loved my semester-long Current Events class in 8th grade. We read the Big City newspaper (front page & certain other articles as picked by the teacher) and discussed. I don't remember papers that we had to write or much in the way of homework. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted April 15, 2013 Author Share Posted April 15, 2013 Seems like you have found what you are looking for, but I will put in a mention for Newsademic. It comes out every other week as a PDF. Sometimes I assign him one or two of the advanced activities or direct his attention to a particular article, but not always. He mostly just reads what interests him and tells me about it. I'm saving the editions in a binder, hoping that at the end of 2013 I will get him to choose his top 10 events...or something like that :) Thanks. This looks good too, and I do like the idea of reading articles, not just watching news. But I might end up sticking with free resources which I feel should be doable for current events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Not sure if you're Christian, but we LOVE the God's World News. They are kind of like the old Weekly Reader thing we had in school, and they have them for all age ranges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkyandtheBrains. Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 We use CNN Student News. Free daily 10 minute videos, presented as a student-friendly newscast, available on HLN, as a podcast, or watch on their website. Here is a link that explains it. We do plenty of writing in other subjects, so we just watch on our iPad, then discuss. We watch CNN Student New as well. It is short, daily, and allows us to get a brief overview of the news. We just watch it on their website. Usually the boys will discuss what they have seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellyMama Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Not sure if you're Christian, but we LOVE the God's World News. They are kind of like the old Weekly Reader thing we had in school, and they have them for all age ranges. We also use this and like it. We get 'Top Story' for our 7th grader. I order a single subscription to 5th gr and 3rd gr Scholastic News for our younger kids, but everyone reads everyone else's magazines too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SophiaH Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 We also use CNN Student News daily and receive God's World News and World magazine. There are two other websites that we use as well that I don't believe have been mentioned: studentnewsdaily.com and hmcurrentevents.com. Also, my dd loves to watch the videos on The Weather Channel app which are mostly current events-type videos. On Fridays, she picks one story from the week and writes a one paragraph summary in her own words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 We don't do anything formal. I listen to NPR and BBC Worldservice before school and in the evening, so dd listens whenever she's in the kitchen. We find plenty to discuss :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saraha Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Thanks. Posting so I can find this later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmrich Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 I use Scholastic News (I order 10 copies for the kids I tutor) and use CNN news. We also talk a lot about events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanagnostos Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Ds13 reads the news articles posted on Student News Daily website every day. On Friday he takes a quiz about the stories he read that week. He also chooses a news item that interested him and gives an oral presentation on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom2OandE Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Thanks for those links. My dd is very interested in the news and I wanted to add current events to her program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrettW Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Another plug for CNN Student News. Carl is like a family friend to us now!!! :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Youngzine.org Ds reads articles & watches videos on there & we discuss. He also listens to NPR with us when it's on in the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Another plug for CNN Student News. Carl is like a family friend to us now!!! :laugh: We love Carl!!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflections Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 These are all great ... BUT ..... and I hate to be Debbie Downer .... BUT .... CNN Student News and Student News Daily won't be running any new news stories for the summer - they'll pick back up in August? I guess learning doesn't happen in the summer. Bummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkacademy Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 I will be using these ideas Thanks guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NittanyJen Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 We put Flipboard on DS12's iPad. It provides a customizable news stream by content area, collected from different news sources. He also checks Khan Academy for understanding of some things, such as the economy of the EU. We use current events as a springboard for researching the events of the past that led up to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pen Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Listening in. I bought a copy of NY Times, national edition a couple of weeks ago for this sort of thing, and as practice with a real newspaper. Don't know when that will be a historic item like horse and buggy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 we watch CNN student news (during the typical school year) while we eat lunch, and I generally have NPR and BBC playing etc. We have an online subscription to NY Times and my son asked to have access through his Itouch. He also watches Rachel Maddow with us on occasion. I get the video podcast and watch it on my phone, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linders Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 DS12 and DS10 love CNN Student News. They've even complained because it is on summer hiatus! The program often leads to long discussions afterwards, or inspires them to grab the newspaper or Time magazine to learn more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walking-Iris Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Here's some more http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Youngzine.org is still posting stories through the summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathie in VA Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 I've thought about a younger news paper but never ended up getting one. We watch the news together sometimes, we gather to watch political debates, I'll show them interesting articles from our various local papers. We also get the free copy of Imprimis from Hillsdale College: http://www.hillsdale...ws/imprimis.asp and I leave it around for free reading and interesting lunch discussions. We also tend to tie it in with our history discussions... or actually the other way around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tammyw Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 DD10 gets Time For Kids every week. She loves it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rpm1026 Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 My ds12 loves to read the Wall Street Journal. We spend a lot of time talking about any article that interests him, then the rest of the family jumps in on the discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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