Feb. 10, 2010: Honoring Our Presidents

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. Click here to learn about subscribing to the eEdition at no cost to you (for Colorado teachers).

Activities:

1. Use newspaper words and pictures to make a poster for a U.S. president.

2. Design a monument for a person in the newspaper. Draw the monument. Write several sentences explaining your monument.

3. Find three people in the newspaper who deserve recognition: an elected official, an athlete and an entertainer. Write a sentence for each person.

4. Which of the monuments (a) have seated presidents, (b) has a standing president, (c) had to wait for 25 years to be finished, and (d) has outdoor 'rooms' ?

5. Which of the monuments featured in this Mini Page would you like to visit? Why?

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 that history relates to events and people of other times and places by identifying examples of interesting Americans. (Social Studies: History)
  
  (standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)