Classrooms may also be set to play table games. To sing the songs they liked to sing at that time, dance, tell a story or recite a poem. 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. Children speak like their elders. Grandparents speak like the children.