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Invite a local senior
center to hear your
elementary
school choir, a spelling bee or a geography bee. Have your students
recite poetry or read essays about their own grandparents. Invite your
guests to stay for lunch. |
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Call the activities
coordinator of a local assisted living apartment or adult living center
and
arrange transportation to a special afternoon or early evening showing of your high school
drama production. Arrange refreshments with the cast and students afterwards. |
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Invite school alumni for a "back to school" day; honor them at a school assembly. Ask your guests to talk about how the
school and education have changed. Have them visit a classroom and stay for lunch. |
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Honor your community’s veterans.
Call your
American Legion or local veterans organization, invite them to your school and honor them
at an assembly. Have your guests stay for lunch and listen to a patriotic choir
presentation or a reading of essays. |
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Do you have a retired teachers association
in your community? Invite them to come back to school to read stories to students, share
what school was like in the "old days." Again, plan refreshments. |
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Offer to have your middle school computer class teach a
group of seniors how to use the Internet. |
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Ask all of the students to
invite their own
grandparents to their classroom for a morning and stay for lunch. Ask the
students to write personal invitations and mail them to their grandparents. If students
don't have a grandparent close by, have them invite another relative or neighbor. |
