November 26, 2014 : Save the Children

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in The Denver Post. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers

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Activities:

1. Draw a backpack on a piece of paper. On it, paste newspaper words and pictures of school items for Save the Children students who can’t go to school. Don’t include anything that needs electricity.

2. Find five people in your newspaper whose skills could help Save the Children. Explain your choices.

3. In your newspaper, circle medical supplies that would help in Save the Children countries.

4. How has Save the Children helped students in (a) Uganda, (b) Liberia, (c) Syria and (d) Kentucky in 1932?

5. Find a place or situation in your community where you could help children. Explain what you could do to help.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them.

This week's standard:
Students understand the values of trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and good citizenship. (Character Education)

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)