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Thanksgiving Day—or any gathering of relatives—is a perfect opportunity to chronicle family history. Aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins will be thankful for your interest in their past and will delight in relaying anecdotes for future generations. Gathering information through interviewing exposes kids to investigative reporting by using who, what, when, where, and why questioning strategies. Taking notes of responses builds language arts skills in a real-world context. Stories will be showcased in a homemade newspaper edited by your budding journalist with family members as headliners. “Extra! Extra! Read all about it!”
In this issue students will:
- learn what it’s like to be a reporter
- create a family newspaper
- conduct interviews and take notes
- use who, what, where, when and why format to write articles
- use.a bar graph to display survey results
- describe people, places, and things you’re thankful for
- observe carefully to spot differences between family portraits
- calculate sums to learn sections of the newspaper
7 page PDF
