1st newspaper lesson

I wrote this down with a pen, but now I'm adding it to my blog. Last week I did my first newspaper lesson. The children were so excited to see the papers, which I thought was great. I first gave them time to look at the paper and look at what they want to read. I then went into my introduction to the paper. That went okay, though next time I do the introduction I'll make sure and only give the kids the front page which was all that was needed at the time. I also needed to be prepared to answer some tough questions from the kids after them seeing some of the articles. I don't know why I didn't forsee that happening. There was an article on the front page about rape. Yikes, that was a first for me. Thinking it'd be easier to do it all while the papers were out, I went ahead and did the next lesson which had the kids doing a lot of searching, cutting, and then gluing. This took a long time to finish, and boy was there a mess afterwards. I should've realized that it took me awhile to do, and just imagine how long it'd take kids who aren't used to reading the paper. Next time I'll separate the lessons. In fact I'll even separate the coat of arms lesson into 2 parts and only have the kids look for a few things at a time. Live and learn. Right now I do have a time frame on my lessons so it's a bit different.