Recording Family History
Your kids can become historians during this Covid-19 lockdown! They can record your family's history. For this activity, they will need something to take down notes with: a pen and notebook, a mobile phone, a tablet, a laptop, or any other tools they may prefer. And plenty of free time. The first step is to make a family chart with the names of their parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and other relatives, as far back as they can. If they can fill in birth and death dates, or at least the years in which these events took place, that would be better. The next step is for your kids to interview you and any other relatives they can interview (of course, while maintaining physical distancing) and take down notes. They can ask the following: Where and when were their parents (or grandparents) born How did their parents (or grandparents) meet each other What were their parents' (or grandparents') jobs What things did their parents (or grandpa...