The activity takes a quick look at the attributes and characteristics of grandfathers from a child’s perspective and hopefully brings back fond memories of grandfathers you have known.

This Easy Writing activity is entitled “Independence Day Is”. Pictures and sentence endings to the “Independence Day Is” sentence starter include: “The fourth of July”, “celebrating America’s Freedoms”, “watching fireworks”, “family picnics”, “watching the parade”, “red, white and blue hats” and “waving sparklers”

Students can write about a picnic in this Easy Writing activity. The sentence starts with “A picnic is” and the available sentence endings include: sunny weather, cooking outdoors, hot dogs, hamburgers, cold drinks, watermelon, keeping cool, flying a kite, playing horseshoes, and (inevitably) ants.

Fireworks Puzzle This activity is a puzzle similar to the US Puzzle that ships with IntelliTools Classroom Suite®, but with three pieces instead of nine. Each click removes a puzzle piece until the final surprise. In this case, the fourth click sets off a Fourth of July fireworks display, complete with whooshes, bangs, and cheers. […]

This activity briefly recounts Cochise’s life. Children have an opportunity to read and/or to click on the text and have the text read to them. Their comprehension of the content provided is tested by answering the five multiple choice questions which follow the reading selection.