I was THRILLED to review the magazine called God’s World News with my children recently!! I was familiar with this magazine a little bit, but I definitely learned a lot more about the many things this company offers as a result of this review. We received the News Current edition which is for 5th and 6th grade students.

 

I will be the first to tell you that news is a hard subject for me. I want to be aware of what is happening in the world around me. I want my children to be knowledgeable. But, {I know you sensed that was coming!!} I have a VERY hard time finding reliable news information. I struggle to know what I can believe and what I shouldn’t. I wonder if there are any others out there in the world sharing news stories that share my beliefs. Enter the God’s World News magazines.

I love the tagline on the God’s World News website…

“Critical thinking delivered.”

As a parent that is both a believer AND interested in my children learning to be critical thinkers, this appeals to me in a lot of ways. In fact, I will go a step further and say that I believe to be a Christian ~ and truly live like Christ ~ in this culture, we HAVE to learn to be critical thinkers. And, as a mom who isn’t always the best at doing that, I’m very thankful for resources, such as this magazine, that help me to do that with my kids.

One thing that I did not know or remember about this magazine publication is that they offer magazines for all aged children!! If you take a look at this page, you will see that they offer versions of their magazine for ages pre-k all the way up through high school! And it’s not even really a variation on the same story all the time, they offer AGE APPROPRIATE stories for each level. So, if a story is appropriate for middle schoolers and up but NOT for the younger kids, you won’t see it in the younger magazines. They also have a magazine, called World Magazine, that my husband and I have been enjoying.

The offer to do this review came at a perfect time for our family. As you  may know, we started a new co-op this year and my oldest daughter is in a geography class where she has been assigned to turn in current event write-ups. I didn’t really want to turn her loose on the internet, so when we received this magazine in the mail, I knew we had found our answer for finding a current event for her to write on! I ordered the 5th-6th grade edition of God’s World News which is called News Current, which you can see more about here. It has been the perfect level for my girls.

As soon as we got the first magazine in the mail, I flipped through it and found a few things that I could point out to Hannah. At the point of receiving it, she didn’t have time to read EVERY article before her geography class, so I gave her a few options I thought she might enjoy, she chose one of the stories, read it and then wrote a summary about it for her class. I love that I could trust the story to be age appropriate, not contain anything vulgar AND that it would also be written for her age level academically speaking.

When we opened the envelope with our magazine in it, we also found a wonderful map! In fact, it is so great I thought I might laminate it and use it instead of the other one we have hanging in our school room. What I love about this map is how they created it to go with the magazine! In the stories in the magazine, when a location is mentioned, they give you coordinates that match THEIR MAP so that children can find where the stories take place fairly easily!! How genius is that?!? 🙂

There are also several other resources available to you when you subscribe to this magazine. I was unaware of most of these, so I wanted to give you the links for them here!

Extra Resources

• Biographies (these are available for subscribers only)
• the map I described above in my review
• PDF lessons to go with the news stories (this is a sample)
• opt-in weekly newsletter 
• 2 new interactive websites for kids & teens ~ God’s World New Kids & God’s World News Teen
• weekly quizzes to go along with news articles & answer keys

As you can see from reading this review, we were very thrilled with this magazine subscription. A subscription to one of the God’s World News magazines is listed as $32 per year, but $28 from the God’s World News website. The magazine is delivered every month of the year except May and December, so you will receive 10 issues. If you order 2 copies, you save a few dollars, and the more copies you order, the more you save.

As my children are getting older, I am finding that I need more help with this very thing that God’s World News offers. I’m very excited to have this resource available.

If you’d like to read what other families are saying about God’s World News magazine, please check out the TOS Crew blog!