We got LuLu’s first copy of the KIDS Discover magazine today. It was a birthday gift and a great idea! It looks fabulous! This magazine, for grades 3rd -7th, is focused on science and social studies topics. This month’s issue is on the Brain. Some of the other topics include Ancient China, Lewis & Clark, Rain Forests, Electricity and the Weather.

For us it will be a way to interest her in reading, since she struggles with it so. Because it’s a magazine, the information is given to you in short “articles” that have lots of pictures and illustrations, which is good for children with attentional problems. It’s the kind of magazine that you learn more from the captions than you do from the article in many cases. The back pages of the magazine have games and fun ways to review what you’ve read and learned.

On their website, Kids Discover has teacher resources available to supplement each issue even more, showing how the information in each issue means various state science or social studies standards. You can check out each issue’s reading level online too.

For us, this will also be a handy thing to keep in the car for those long waits at doctor’s appointments. And the magazines will hang around to be references for later when she’ll actually be studying some of these topics.

Or you can go to the website and directly order the issues that have the topics you need to do certain units.

And the cool thing is that even you, the parent, will learn something. For example, I learned that babies see the world upside down, and their brains eventually learn to flip the images. Who can remember that long ago?

The pictures and illustrations are both educational and awesome, especially the combined CAT and MRI images of the brain on the cover. What a fun way to learn!

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