Be Informed, Be Aware - Spread the News, Share
the News, Mash the News
Stimulate Interest in learning Current News like Kids News (News in
Brief below)
Encourage kids to pick print Newspapers - Make
them Read Headlines, Advertisements, small interesting News pieces -
On Kidsfreesouls Online, make the Kids read the Headlines and News in
brief, Interesting stuff like jokes, riddles, mystery cases, games,
read stories, use worksheets, puzzles, etc. Assign one activity per
week.
Make the Kids find
the Editorial notes on Kidsfreesouls and find Editorial columns in
Print Newspapers.
Get
them to find the Cartoon Fun and Ask
them what message they find by observing the Cartoon. Ask them to make
their own Cartoon strip.
Explain about Local, International News and what 'Mash' the
News (online Mash the news on Kidsfreesouls) means.
Find Cover or Top
Story. Follow major Newspapers online and tell them to make Cover
Story from news. Make cover story from news/ed notes appearing on
Kidsfreesouls.
Refer
How to be a Feature Writer.
Kids should be explained and told to find Feature writing on
Kidsfreesouls and Print Newspapers.
Explain what is Reuters, PTI, AP - what do this mean and who provides
news to Newspapers. How online websites can place
Reuters, AP and
other news. Explain how the web owner can earn by placing these News.
Explain Importance of
Online Journalism. How Online News reach faster with updates by the
time print newspaper is published and reach the reader. (An eg.
Reuters News /New York Times News/Google News-placed on kidsfreesouls)
Advertisements are primary source of income
apart from other in print media.
A project on Advertisements can be made.
Making a website incur expenses from taking a domain,
hosting, designing and marketing online.
Explain how online Advertisements eg. google can contribute to keep
the website generate income. Children can go find ads on kidsfreesouls
- google, amazon, contexual ads, coupon offers, etc. too.Kids
can list down all ads they see on kidsfreesouls. Design their own
advertisement and write their scripts.
Make kids use the Calendar(Kids news right panel) - Let them do a collage work with newspaper
cuttings and add kidsfreesouls Calendar on a chart. They can take
prints of kidsfreesouls pages and also add to chart with Calendar.
Get kids hook to reading online with Stories on kidsfreesouls at
Fairyland pages.
Kids are often told to write a poem on
their own. Refer
the Kidsfreesouls Poetry Pages. Kids can be
taught 'How to write a Poem' - use this
article in the classroom. Assign groups with finding words relating to
the article. Once they know the Poetry soup, stir the ingredients -
writing poetry can be easier.
Kids can be encouraged to write Book Reviews of Books they have read
in class. Let them explore Kidsfreesouls Amazon Store or Kids Book
Reviews pages too and if they've read these books, encourage them to
write and send to Kidsfreesouls.com email. Send 25 Book Reviews and
get a Kidsfreesouls Certificate + gift if you are in India!
You
can Bookmark the Grammar Fun pages. Use
the worksheets in the Classroom. Grammar Fun topics will be getting
updated with additions from time to time as I make worksheets for my
class in progress at Swagat. Kids can read Stories with Grammar and
comprehension with worksheets. Wordsearch sheets, cross words, etc can
be used for classroom Activities.
Kids can use Themes pages eg. Culture and
Festivals (christmas/Diwali,etc) and
Literature Profiles eg. (Gandhiji/Auden, milton, etc) - Children
can make Project books and paste pics, draw-color and add contents of
these pages. Each student should pick a different profile and later
when complete, a knowledge class on this can be held. Later, these
children can organize a Literature eve - Party with themes Posters,
poetry/writings graffiti, etc. inviting other friends/students. Play
music, eat and meet but exhibit the Project files and few students can
say on their Literature Profiles. Kidsfreesouls conducted Lit Party
once and it was a great event:-)
Children can be encouraged to use the web
with proper Chat /
Email Etiquettes with tips on kidsfreesouls.
Make kids dive into the world of imagination.
Refer Kidsfreesouls How to Write a Story page and make kids get to
action. Writing story is not so easy but a child can be taught
to at least, write a para on their own.
Children can have fun drawing and coloring,
writing jokes, limericks or riddles while referring kidsfreesouls
pages. They can even email/post their drawings (refer
kids pages)
Make Project Books and refer the Project from
News Page
- Even Monthwise
Project List here. eg. October is a
month of Computer Learning / World Post Day - etc. So kids can learn
Computers - write Blog entries, etc or for World Post day, collect
stamps and exchange and even get to write letters to friends, penpals.
Add
Stickers to
Sticker Book or Use for Projects. Teachers can give stickers to rate
child's work. Parents can print stickers and give for behavior, etc.
Kids can make use of
Smileys on Kidsfreesouls and make
their own smiley expressions.
Create Awareness on Environment Issues. Go Green
with Kidsfreesouls Environment page by making kids get to do the
Environment Project with tips here and get the Earth Talk Q & A
encourage them to make a scrap book with Q & A and also send their
concerned Questions to kidsfreesouls. Let there be All 365 days 'Earth
Day'
Explain How to make Use of Translations tools
online and turn Kidsfreesouls to read in Spanish, French, etc. Desired
language. Make them learn few words of the language you translate.
Follow Translation Tool of Google Show
Translated Kidsfreesouls.com
Make kids use of Google tools. Make a school
page with
Google Pages like
Kidsfreesouls. You can use this page to give good useful links
online, note monthly classroom reads, lesson plans, etc. Even assign
homework through these pages.
Use the Google Maps. Find your Country and
street. Find Kidsfreesouls on the Google Map. Get them make a Project
on gathering Information on India, Gujarat and Kidsfreesouls city 'Ahmedabad'
Encourage kids to read
Kids Reporters and
let them take part by sending their contributions to these reporters.
Through these pages, kids can learn how to Blog. Set up a School Blog
on Blogger/any other and make kids to write their own Journals and add
to Blogs. Also teach on How to make Comments and use of courteous
language and Comments Posting Ethics.
Google News
contents are Kidsfreesouls Personalized news. Read and provide safety
tips and other Information from these news.
