Grandparent's Day

I feel so very fortunate to work at a school that celebrates grandparent's day.  We celebrate it school wide each year.  My grandparents have made such a huge impact in my life.  I also think it is important to celebrate people who make a difference in the lives of children because it really does take a village to raise a child.

My paternal grandparents in 1949. 

We celebrated it last Friday, September 6th.  Grandparents begin their day in their grandchild's classroom(s) and then as a school we go to the gym for our weekly school wide morning assembly.  Due to the fact that children are going to be sitting for an extended amount of time during the assembly, I try to keep the sitting in the classroom limited.  This year we began by showing our grandparents how we start our day with a greeting as a part of our morning meeting.  We had worked on a morning message during the week that the children helped brainstorm what they wanted to write and helped write the message during our writing time using procedures from interactive writing. 

 

We also read many stories throughout the week leading up to the day about grandparents including The Hello Goodbye Window, 41 Uses for a Grandma, and 40 Uses for a Grandpa.  We wrote a class book based on the format the last two books and each child gave a use for a grandparent.  We put our class books that we have made this year out for grandparents to look at.  Children also showed them around the room and read a book from their book box to their guest.  It was a great success!

 

 

Does your school celebrate grandparents?  What are some ways you have celebrated school wide or in your own classroom?