An Indoor Play Activity
Even if your child can’t read or write, here’s an activity that will provide both entertainment and information about other cultures.
Materials Required:
- Paper
- Pens, crayons, or markers
Optional Materials:
- Notebook
- Picture of the globe
Instructions:
Even if your child can’t read or write, here’s an activity that will provide both entertainment and information about other cultures.
On a sheet of scratch paper, write the name of a COuntry followed by the words “Times” and “News,” as in Japan Times or Japan News.
Now work on some “articles” with your child.
First ask what your child knows about Japan – the language, food, where it’s located on the map, etc.
Then write a few sentences about each topic.
If you can find a sample of Japanese writing, let your child imitate it.
And be sure to affix any pictures relating to the country you might find in magazines. (Note: You don’t have to become an expert on the countries in question – just a few general facts will get you going. If you really get into the activity, a good almanac or a travel guide on the featured countries will give you lots to talk about with your child.)
As you create more newspapers for different countries, combine them in a notebook: Find a picture of a globe you can put on the cover, and you’ll have the world in your play room.
International News is an Indoor Play activity that will you and your children will find both entertaining and educational and great for improving your general knowledge.
This Children’s Indoor Play Activity is sponsored by Zane Education – the home of online Visual Learning. Visual Learning is a method of online learning that includes the use of online subtitled educational video that caters for virtually all Learning Styles. The online education videos are accompanied by online multiple choice quizzes, lesson plans and interactive study tools. Virtually all children prefer Visual Learning as it makes study much more interesting and fun. It is the ideal online education solution for teachers and classroom students, homeschooling, special needs education and children that you’d like to see improve their reading and literacy skills and children studying ESL – as they study the same curriculum topics studied by their classmates and peers. Zane Education provides that and much more.
