by Kristina Nelson

Created on: January 28, 2009

Many useful resources, such as magazines, can become inexpensive home school curriculum. To the home educator, numerous magazines become useful tools in unit studies and lesson plans. Whether you are homeschooling full time or you home school part time after you child returns home from public or private school, consider the benefits of using magazine to teach, and educate your child(ren).

PRESCHOOL

High Five magazine, published by Highlights, is geared toward children age 2-6. Contents of this magazine include read aloud stories, age appropriate activities such as puzzles to learn, be creative and explore. Activities that help preschoolers to develop their minds are packed into 40 pages. Hidden pictures puzzles, stories that introduce a foreign language, and simple puzzles to develop their brain that use letters and numbers help a child grow and learn. Hand dexterity and ability to follow directions are learned through step-by step age appropriate activities or recipes. Also included are fun games that your child can play continuously.

PRESCHOOL / ELEMENTARY / MIDDLE SCHOOL

Kid Zone Magazine is geared toward children ages 4-12. A favorite magazine in our house, this magazine invites children
with the fun cartoon characters used throughout it. Geography, Cultures, and coordinating recipes can be used to teach until studies on different countries, or included in geography or world cultures lesson plans. Older children can explore other countries by reading the fact filled pages in each publication, followed by a recipe of that country. Brainteasers, such as word searches, word puzzles, and crossword puzzles, help develop the mind, through discovering. Kid Zone also promotes creativity in children with crafts and activities that are included. Non-fiction stories help children learn and discover even further and can be added to lesson plans, unit studies or by itself. Science is not left out of this magazine either. Poetry can be coordinated with language and creative writing lesson plans or unit studies also. In the November/December 2008 issue of Kid Zone, the section Kid Zone included published hand drawn pictures that children sent into the magazine, Info Zone contained facts about Christmas Trees, Chomp Zone included information about different kinds of sugar, followed by a recipe to make your own pancake syrup. Other topics in this issue were, Critter Zone, a non-fiction story about Spirit Bears, Discovery Zone included a non-fiction history of sailing, sailors,

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