by Colette Georgii

Created on: January 18, 2009   Last Updated: March 16, 2009

How to use kids' magazines for homeschooling

There are a great many lively, entertaining, and educational magazines available for children and they can be especially useful as a teaching aid within your homeschool curriculum.

Kids' magazines are published for all ages and grade levels - preschool through high school, so whatever age your children are there are magazines that can be very helpful in the planning and teaching of your curriculum.

Children also love magazines published especially for them and will delight in receiving a magazine in the mail that has many things for them to do. Each magazine has many age-appropriate activities that can be used for teaching. There are reading, spelling, and math activities. There are magazines about ecology, the environment, and science. There are stories, poems, and worksheets.

Amazon.com lists 72 best-selling kids' magazines, so there is a lot to choose from. To pick the magazines best for your homeschooling crew just go to www.amazon.com and do a search for children's magazines. Check out the ages and the subjects. There are specific science, animal, math, and ecology magazines. There are also magazines specific to girls or boys, or geared to specific sports activities such as baseball.

It is a good idea to pick out a main magazine that is age appropriate and published 12 times a year. This will give the child something new and exciting each month. Once you have picked out the main magazine, you could also get one or two other magazines that come only four to six times a year to fill in the gaps each month.

Children learn fast and thrive on new and exciting material, so providing them with the wonderful opportunity of magazines arriving in the mail can be just one way to build learning excitement in your child.

Amazon lists some great kids magazines for

Kids under 4

*Baby Bug

*Your Big Backyard

*Preschool Playroom

*Ladybug

Kids 4-8

*Spider

*Chirp

*Chickadee

*Click

Kids 8-12

*Cricket

*Muse

*National Geographic Kids

Other popular kids magazines are Ranger Rick, Zoobooks, Highlights for Children, Dogs for Kids, Disney and Me, Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty's, and Turtle.

Magazines such as School Science and Mathematics, Social Studies and the Young Learner, Know: The Science Magazine for Curious Kids, and School Arts - The Art Education Magazine for K-12, can be great teaching tools for your homeschool curriculum.

www.world-newspapers.com/children.html also lists magazines for kids including a few online magazines - Children's Web Magazine

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