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Parents: Hopefully, this past school year has gone well for your children. Since children should never stop learning in the summer, once more we are giving you some activities that they can do throughout the rest of the summer. We have selected activities in social studies. We realize that there has been considerable controversy in what should be taught in this area. Hopefully, our activities will extend and broaden children’s knowledge of our country as well as interject some fun into learning more about it.
Learning More about Immigration
Almost everyone in the United States is an immigrant or a descendant of an immigrant. Today, immigrants need to take and pass the naturalization civics test to become a citizen. Your older children should take the practice 2008 test online. It is a multiple-choice test. However, the actual test is not. It is an oral test of ten of the hundred questions on the 2008 test. Part of becoming a citizen requires an immigrant to answer six of them correctly. Can your children pass the test without doing some studying? Older children and parents should know the answer to most of these questions. Unfortunately, a survey showed that only one in three citizens could pass this test. There are other requirements besides passing the naturalization civics test to becoming a citizen.
A great topic of conversation this month is to talk to your children about where their relatives immigrated to the United States from. If you know, tell them where the relatives entered the United States, approximately what year it was and also why they came to the United States. If you are short on information about your ancestors, visit one of the genealogy sites for an absolute wealth of information. You might even make a family tree together. This is a good project because more than likely younger family members will have this assignment sometime during elementary school or even middle school.
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