This year I created a new homeschool notice board for my middle schooler.
I attached wooden clipboards and clips so that we can quickly change/ update or add new information.
There are 4 clipboards for ~
- Current Affairs
- Famous Artist
- Nature Study
- Bible Memory Verse
I included 2 smaller clips for Common Latin Words and the Famous Composer.
In this and a few following posts, I will discuss more on each section and share free downloads that I created for our notice board.
Today ~ Current Affairs
Your free download ~ Current Affairs Sample
Included in this download is ~
- 2 World maps
- Symbols for the natural and man-made disasters
- Colour-codes to highlight different categories of the events
- Blank perpetual calendar pages
We fit in this ‘minor’ activity on our “Tuesday – Timeline” day or our “Wednesday – World” studies day according to our 1-More-Thing “Theme of the Day”.
It is in doing these extras that your children will have a rich and rewarding education, and it doesn’t have to take long at all. Moms can quickly write in the latest events for younger children and let them find the country or location on the world map and draw in the symbol. It is quick and only takes a moment!
May you be blessed in your Geography and World Studies!
Here are some excellent resources ~
- Ann Voskamp of Holy Experience posted “How to Feed Brains Everyday” with links to some amazing sites for several subjects.
- FREE Maps by http://d-maps.com/
- Wikipedia’s natural disasters – click the home page and look at “In the news” for major events of the month –
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2017_natural_disasters
- Flags from around the world https://www.teachervision.com/flags/flags-around-world
- Other current affairs websites – http://www.timeforkids.com/ & http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/
- Pictures from around the world – http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/
- Last 24 hours in pictures adult content. Please preview – https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/24hoursinpictures
- Headlines with country flags – http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Current+Affairs/International
- News – http://news.sky.com/world & https://www.theguardian.com/world/natural-disasters
Much Grace, Nadene
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Hi Nads, thanks for this. We have been relying on Gavin’s brain (or is that a sponge in my husbands head) at dinner time to bring us up to date. But he has so much info in there that we get a little lost sometimes. I think this post has given me the direction we need right now and Gav can fill in our blanks!
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My boys would love to fill out this chart (They’re really into this stuff – lol), but there are so many websites to find this info that it is rather overwhelming. Can you recommend a website or two? Can you share what you recorded for January and February so far? Thank you!
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@Barbara, I updated my post with some excellent links from Ann Voskamp of Holy Experience who posted “How to Feed Brains Everyday” Here is a good link with the archives for January and February 2014 http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/archive/daily-news-article/
We tend to focus on extreme weather and major political events, and so far we have added major winter storms and floods in USA and UK, the uprisings and riots in Kiev and the Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi. Blessings!
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This is so inspiring, Nadene! Thank you! As our oldest son readies for deployment to Afghanistan, we want the younger children to see where big brother will be.
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@mummy2six, thanks for writing! It is wonderful to keep the younger children in touch with a world map. Some moms use their current affairs studies as a point of prayer. We trust and pray that your son is kept safe in the Lord!
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Is there a specific website you use to follow the current events, or just the newspaper? Thank you.
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@Michelle, because I read daily news on my smart phone, we mostly work from this medium. Towards the end of the year there are several websites which give an overview. This is something that should develop naturally and which builds a wonderful general knowledge.
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