Cheer Up Granny & Grandpa KIDPROJ 1999

This activity ended in 2000. For information only.

Objectives

Description

Activities

Timeline

Participate

grandparent.jpg (18446 bytes) You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard

So,

Granny, Grandpa: Cheer Up!!

We are all a part of the cycle of life, and each moment of this cycle, whether near the beginning or the end, is to be treasured and celebrated"
World Health Organization

SOCIO-AFFECTIVE OBJECTIVES:

To show our elders our care sharing with them a game, a story, a homemade biscuit or cake, or just a big hug.

To interact in groups quietly, with tolerance, respect and understanding.

To raise awareness of intergenerational solidarity, so as not to marginalize older persons, reflecting the theme of the United Nations International Year of Older Persons: "Towards a society for all ages".

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

This project aims to personal interaction among students and their grandparents or senior citizens. During the week of November 15^th -19^th. participating classes will invite their grandparents or any older person they would like to, to come to school bringing something from their childhood or adolescence to share with them, such as an old photograph, a game they used to play, a song, their favorite tale or story (grandparents are the best storytellers), etc. In case the visit to school is not possible, students will be asked to visit their grandparents, an older person from their community or a retirement community and cheer them up with any activity they may wish. Reports of all the events will be written afterwards and sent to KIDPROJ.

TIMELINE:

Due October 30^th : Registration and answering the 4 Kidlink questions.

Nov.1^st to Nov.14^th: Class introductions and announcement of planned activities.

Nov.15^th to 19^th: Activities are carried out.

As from Nov. 22^nd: Reports are sent to KIDPROJ at kidproj@listserv.nodak.edu

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:

This project involves activities related to subjects such as ART, TECHNOLOGY, LANGUAGE, SOCIAL STUDIES, HISTORY, MUSIC.

To make invitation cards, banners, souvenirs, etc.

Whether hand-made or by computer, they will love to receive something made by the students.

To play the games they used to play in their childhood.

What did they play at home? At school, during break time? Hopscotch? Marbles? What were toys like? May be they still keep some, ask them to bring them to school. Classrooms may also be set to play table games. What about a tournament?

To sing the songs they liked to sing at that time, dance, tell a story or recite a poem.

What did they use to listen to? Pop music? Classical? Folk? Encourage them to bring old discs to show the kids or, better, some recordings of old songs or traditional songs from their native countries, if they are immigrants. Oral exchange in circle.

To look at old photographs.

Every photograph tells a story. They will love to tell those stories themselves. Students may compare clothes, hair styles, etc.

To have fun with words or phrases which are not used any longer and find their equivalent at present.

Did they say "cool"? "guy"? What did they say instead? Students can make a list Old words/Modern words. DRAMA CORNER: Children speak like their elders. Grandparents speak like the children.

To talk about the time when they were the students' age?

In a world without television, video games, and Internet: What did they do?

Did they eat hamburgers, popcorn, fries? What about frozen food? What would they change about that time? What would they change today?

To have them send an E-mail to KIDPROJ with a message for the participants at kidproj@listserv.nodak.edu

Do they know what an E-mail is? Teach them how to send one.

To make a board where students and older persons outline their hands and write a message inside.

To interview the oldest person in your community and send this interview to KIDPROJ.

To chat on the KIDLINK IRC.

To write reports after the activities, read those received from different places and compare them.

To take photographs for the school Internet site or the project pages on the WWW.

Important: pictures shouldn't be sent to the list, they should be sent to the moderator.

To talk...and play ... and talk...and play...and talk about what they feel like talking.

DIRECTIONS TO PARTICIPATE:

All the participants may answer the four KIDLINK questions.
You may register from the web or send e-mail directly to our registration moderator and answer the following questions:

Name: (student or school)

If school, how many students participating?

Teacher's name and E-mail

Age of students

E-mail address and URL if any

School address

City / Country

The students (by class or themselves) and the schools must subscribe to the KIDPROJ list to send and get e-mails by sending an email to:
listserv@listserv.nodak.edu

In the body of the message type this command:

subscribe kidproj yourfirstname yourlastname

Student work is then sent to: kidproj@listserv.nodak.edu
The "Join Kidproj" page has more information about getting started.

Last Modified: 09/23/2007