This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
To say that my students have changed my life would be an understatement. I call my group of 31 six- and seven-year-olds "little humans with a love for learning." I often say that although I am the teacher, I feel as if I am the student.
They teach me to be silly, kind, and curious.
We are in a Title I school where over 90% of the students are Hispanic, and about 74% are on Free/Reduced lunch. Regardless of these statistics, my students have great capabilities. More than half of my class is reading on/above grade level. They are motivated and driven to learn even at their young age.
My Project
These TIME for Kids magazines will allow my students to become engaged in current events going on in the world around them while keeping their exposure to a level that they can understand. TIME for Kids magazines are capable of educating young students, like my own, about the news in a way that they can understand at their age.
"Literature is news that stays news," as Ezra Pound once said.
TIME for Kids will give news exposure to my students while simultaneously giving them a different kind of literature to learn from that they are not used to. The technology wave is slowly taking over print. However, I believe that having magazines in print will give my students an experience they're not accustomed to having.
My students will dissect the articles in the magazines to learn about how the media affects them as well as everything around them. These magazines will integrate language arts into social studies. Students will read the content being presented to them and determine HOW it is being presented to them. For example, they may choose to read an article about President Trump addressing Congress while figuring out the tone and point view of the writer. By doing this they are simultaneously gaining knowledge on current events AND media literacy.
More than a third of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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