June 14, 2006: Dear Old Dad

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in the Rocky Mountain News. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers. Click here to learn about subscribing to the eEdition at no cost to you (for Colorado teachers).

Activities:

1. Create a poster for your father or someone special who is like a father to you. Draw a picture of the person in the center of a large piece of paper. Then cut out newspaper words and pictures that tell something about the person and paste them around your drawing. Give your poster to your father or special person to celebrate Father's Day.

2. Look at fathers in the comic strips of your newspaper. List each father, then write two words that describe that father's personal qualities. Now write the name of your father or a special person who is like a father to you on the list. Circle all the comic-strip fathers' qualities that are the same as those of your dad or special person.

3. Interview five classmates or friends. Ask them to talk about their fathers' jobs. Now ask each friend if he/she would like to have the same job as his/her father. Ask them to talk about why or why not.

4. Which of the famous fathers in today's Mini Page would you go to for help
(a) with history homework, (b) in learning how to be physically fit, (c) deciding which musical instrument to play, and (d) with deciding on a career?

5. Make a list of five different reasons that someone might follow the same career as a father's. Ask family members or friends to add reasons to your list. Now write a paragraph about father-child career paths.

This week's standards:

• Students demonstrate respectful and caring relationships in the family, workplace and community. (Family and Consumer Science: Interpersonal Relationships)
• Students explore factors that contribute to one¹s personal identity, such as interests, capabilities and perceptions. (Social Studies: Individual Development)
  
  

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)