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Ten Grand Activities for Grandparents Day

For all that those grandparents do, we celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of our senior citizens on Grandparents Day. How will you mark the occasion? If you haven’t made your plans yet, have no fear! The Web comes to your rescue with ten great activities for grateful kids!

Learn from your Grandparents

What did your Grandma do while your Grandfather went to war? Do they have some old letters they wrote to each other?? Try to have each child bring in some memento from the period in history they talk to their grandparent about.

National Grandparents Day for Schools

Your task is to work cooperatively with a grandparent to make a record of his/her life in any one of the following ways

Zoo

Show children picture cards of zoo animals. Discuss each animal.
Ask children what size space various animals would need.
Discuss which animals would be good neighbors and which would be poor neighbors.

“My Life As A Tree”

This lesson can be used for Kindergarten through fourth grade! This is a good way to introduce the students to three parts of a tree and how they function.