Today's Classroom Activities :

Honoring Dad on Father's Day

Leather-Look Pencil Holder
Art/Language Arts Cover a clean frozen-juice can with torn pieces of masking tape. On each one of the pieces, students use a black crayon to write adjectives that describe their fathers. Paint the entire can with brown shoe polish or brown tempera paint and let it dry. Send the pencil-holder juice cans home for Father's Day, along with student-written poems that include the adjectives written on the can.

Ask the students if they know on what day we celebrate Father's Day. Does anyone celebrate Children's Day or Grandparents' Day? In what special way to they mark these occasions?

You Are to Me by Rebecca Doughty is a story-poem that could be used as a model to write a poem for Father's Days. The illustrations are simple but genuine.

Have your students design a tie for their father that shows things they do together. Choose from the dozens of ideas and resources from the www.enchantedlearning.com site.