Creative Writing Ideas and Journal Topics for June
Are you looking for a creative list of writing prompts and
journal ideas to use during the month of June?
Below, you will find a list of general June writing topics and a list of
specific calendar dates for June which contain creative writing ideas related to
that particular date in June.
I have created this list of June writing prompts and ideas for
elementary school teachers and students, but many of these creative
writing ideas and topics would also be appropriate for other grade levels.
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lesson plan ideas and printable worksheets for those June writing prompts.
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related to those particular June writing prompts.
General June Writing Prompts:
Next year you'll be in a different class with a new teacher. Write a letter to
your next year's teacher, telling him or her the most important things that
you learned this year.
What advice would you give to students who will soon be starting the grade
that you are now completing?
Describe your favorite memories of this school year.
I've improved in _____ during this school year.
My goals for next school year are ...
Create a new water park. Give your new theme park a name and describe the
most popular water rides that are at your park.
Design a postcard from a place that you visited or would like to
visit. On the front of the postcard, draw a picture of a place that you
saw. On the back, write a letter to a friend about this vacation.
My SPACE-tacular vacation. Write a text message to your friend telling him or her about your trip to outer space.
Click on the following link to view a teaching resources set that involves students writing about their outer space vacations inside
unique cell phone templates: My Summer Vacation Cell Phone Templates
My dream summer holiday.
Click on the following link to view a set of printable worksheets in which can be used for
a variety of different summer vacation June writing prompts: End of Year Lesson Plans Summer Vacation Worksheets
A vacation I will always remember ...
What is your favorite summer memory? How old were you when it happened?
Click on the following link to view a teaching resources set that involves students writing about their summer vacations inside
fun suitcase templates: Summer Vacation Suitcase Templates
Keep a record of the fruits and vegetables that you eat for an entire week.
Some children don't enjoy eating fruits and vegetables. Write a
paragraph convincing children of the importance of eating the daily
recommended amount of fruits and vegetables each day.
Create a poster highlighting the importance of eating fruits and vegetables each day.
June 4 - Henry Ford's First Gasoline Powered Automobile
On June 4, 1896, Henry Ford put the finishing touches on his gasoline-powered motor
car. He was 32 years old and he worked in a tiny workshop behind his home.
Henry Ford called his creation the Quadricycle because it ran on four bicycle tires. The
success of the little vehicle lead to Henry Ford founding the Ford Motor Company in 1903.
How has the style and design of automobiles changed from the quadricycle to the cars of today?
What do you think the cars of the future will look like? Design a car of the future and write about the special features of your car.
June 8 - Best Friends Day
June 8 is Best Friends Day.
Who was your first best friend? Describe this friend and what made this friend so special.
Write these quotes on the board and have your students respond in writing to them:
Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless.
The best vitamin for making friends is B-1.
What qualities do you look for in a friend?
How do you try to be a good friend to others?
How would you feel if your best friend was moving to a different country?
Describe a time when you had a disagreement with your best friend.
What is most important to you in a friend: loyalty, generosity, honesty? Why?
What would you do if you saw a friend cheating? Would you report it, confront the friend, or say nothing? Why?
If another child was making fun of your best friend or bullying them, what would you do? Write about how you would help your friend in a positive way.
Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Germany. The Frank family moved to
Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, in 1933 and this is where Anne Frank lived
most of her life. Anne Frank is one of the most well known Jewish victims
of the Holocaust because of her diary, which was first published as
a book, in Dutch, in 1947.
Anne was a Jewish girl that hid with her
family and friends in Amsterdam during World War II. She wrote a
diary chronicling her story. Since then, millions of people have read
the thoughts and hopes of one young girl and have been inspired by them.
Share these quotes from Anne Frank with your students and have them write a response to one of them:
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
The Anne Frank Museum is a web page that contains a lot of information and photographs of Anne Frank.
June 14 - Flag Day
In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. Flag Day recognizes the
adoption of the flag of the United States, which occurred by a resolution of the
Second Continental Congress in 1777, on June 14.
The fifty stars on the flag
represent the 50 states and the 13 stripes represent the original thirteen
colonies that rebelled against the British monarchy and became the first
states in the Union. It is said that the color white on the flag signifies
purity and innocence, red signifies valor and bravery, and blue signifies
vigilance, perseverance, and justice.
Design a flag for your school or city. Write a paragraph describing why you
chose these symbols and these colors for the flag that you designed.
Evolution of the American Flag is a web page that contains information and example pictures of the American flag as it has changed over the years.
Have your students research the History of Flag Day. Using a U.S. Flag template, have students write 13 facts that they learned using bullet points in the 13 horizontal stripes on the flag.
Create an imaginary country and design a flag for this country.
Wikipedia's general flag day page contains information about various countries around the world that also celebrate a Flag Day, as well as images of their flags.
Write a poem or a short essay about Flag Day inside unique U.S.A. country shaped templates.
Click on the following link to view a teaching resources set that involves students
writing a poem or essay about Flag Day on unique U.S.A. shaped country templates: Flag Day Templates
June 15 - Smile Power Day
June 15 is Smile Power Day. It takes twice as many muscles to
frown as it does to smile. Smiling is the most recognized form of beauty,
friendship, acceptance, and goodwill.
Write this quote on your board and ask your students to write what
they think this quote means:
"Frown and you frown alone, but smile and the whole world smiles with you."
What can you do today to make someone smile?
Write about a time that someone was sad and you helped cheer them up, or a
time that you were sad and someone made you smile.
Read your students Ten Reasons To Smile and then have them make up their
own list of why it is great to smile.
When we smile for a picture, we "Say Cheese" and usually our mouths are open and we show our teeth. Healthy teeth help us look our best. Research tips for children to having healthy teeth. Pretend that you are a dentist and visiting a kindergarten class. Prepare a 2 minute presentation to this kindergarten class about the tips that you have learned about taking care of teeth.
June 17 - Eat Your Vegetables Day
June 17 is Eat Your Vegetables Day. On this day, people are
encouraged to eat vegetables for every meal, and for a snack.
Create a T.V. or radio commericial advertising Eat Your Vegetables Day and promoting the
healthy benefits of eating vegetables. Try to write a catchy jingle or song about vegetables
that will capture the attention of the audience.
What is your favorite vegetable to eat? Which is your least favorite vegetable to eat?
Make a list of all the vegetables that you can think of. Circle the ones that
you do not eat regularly and should add to your diet. Write yourself a letter advising how you should include eating more vegetables in your daily diet.
Vegetables For Kids is a website that has some fun stories about vegetables that you can read to your students, as well as some talking vegetables.
Third Sunday of June - Father's Day
Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June.
There is a popular saying "Father Knows Best." Write about a time that your father
helped you or gave you some good advice about a problem that you had.
Being a father is the most important job because...
Imagine that you and your dad switched places and you suddenly became "Dad for a Day." What would it be like?
Write a list of things that you can do to help your dad and then create a Father's Day coupon book for your dad.
Draw a portrait of your father and create a Father's Day card for him.
Click on the following link to view a teaching resources set that involves students
drawing a portrait of their fathers and designing a Father's Day: Father's Day Lesson Plans
June 25 - Eric Carle's Birthday (1929)
Eric Carle was born on June 25, 1929 in Syracuse, New York. He is a
children's author and illustrator. He is most well known for his
book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which has been translated into
over 47 languages.
Eric Carle has illustrated more than 70 books, most
of which he also wrote, and more than 88 million copies of his books
have sold around the world. His most well known stories are based on
his knowledge and love of nature and in his books, Eric Carle offers
his readers the opportunity to learn something about the world around them.
Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar to your students.
Write a poem about caterpillars.
Click on the following link to view a teaching resources set that involves students writing a poem inside
caterpillar templates: Caterpillar Poems and Writing Templates
Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When Helen
Keller was 19 months old she contracted an illness that might have been
scarlet fever or meningitis. Helen recovered, but the illness left her deaf and blind.
If Helen Keller were born today her life would undoubtedly have been completely
different. How would the technology available today to blind and deaf/blind individuals
have helped Helen Keller?
Write these quotes on your board and have your students respond to one of them:
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Note: On the above page, you will find links to download all 12 of my FREE classroom calendar sets for January - December!
My printable calendar sets are designed to fit inside the
monthly calendar pocket charts that many teachers use.
My holiday calendar sets contain
the following printable worksheets:
Above: The large June calendar title is a
2 page banner template that is glued together and cut out.
Above: This printable calendar set for June includes large
days of the week templates for the 7 days of the week
(Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are shown above).
This printable calendar set for June includes smaller calendar pieces for the 7 days of the
week that will fit inside your calendar pocket chart.
There are 31 square calendar number dates in this teaching resources set.
There are squares for you to print and write your students' names and birthdays on.
There are 11 printable calendar worksheets in this
June teaching resources classroom display set.
$1.50
Note: At the top of this box, there is a
free download link for this June calendar set.
Below are some ideas and examples of teaching resources
that can be used for some of the June writing
prompts that are found on this page:
My Summer Vacation Cell Phone
Provide your students with an engaging and fun way
for them to write about what they did during their summer holidays
with these unique cell phone text message templates.
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June Writing Prompts
Cell Phone Templates
My Summer Vacation Suitcase
Provide your students with an engaging and fun way for them to
write about what they did during their summer holidays with
these unique suitcase creative writing templates.
These ice cream shaped poems are a fun way for your students
to write a poem about their favorite colors. For example, if a student's favorite
color is blue, he could write a poem about the ocean.
Students draw a picture in the top scoop of ice
cream and write their poems in the bottom scoop of ice cream.
This ice cream sticker chart set is designed to motivate your students to read
during their summer vacations.
The top ice cream scoop contains places for 24 stickers to be placed. In the bottom
scoop, students have to write a summary about their favorite book that they
read during their summer vacations.
Students draw a portrait of their father on
the coat and tie graphic on the front of the Father's Day card, and write a message or poem on the
inside of their cards.
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June Writing Prompts
Father's Day Card
Flag Day June 14
Have your students write a short essay or a poem about Flag Day using these printable
worksheets that are in the shape of the United States and a flag.
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June Writing Prompts
Flag Day June 14
The Perfect Summer Vacation
Students can write about their favorite vacation, or they can use their imaginations to describe
what they think would be a perfect summer vacation.
For this creative writing assignment, students imagine that they are on an African safari
and write all about their adventures.
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African Safari
Below are some ideas and examples of teaching resources
that can be used for writing prompts related to
Eric Carle's Birthday on June 25 and his most
popular book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Colorful Butterfly Project (#1)
For this first butterfly book report project, students find examples of colorful
elements in their stories: colorful verbs, colorful adjectives, colorful
characters, and colorful plot. The colorful caterpillar book report below matches
this butterfly book report.
For this second butterfly book report project, students write about the main
elements of their books: setting, characters, plot, solution, conclusion, and illustration.
The story elements caterpillar book report below matches
this butterfly book report.
For this first caterpillar book report project, students find examples of colorful
elements in their stories: colorful verbs, colorful adjectives, colorful
characters, and colorful plot. The colorful butterfly book report above matches
this caterpillar book report.
For this second caterpillar book report project, students write about the main
elements of their books: setting, characters, plot, solution, conclusion, and illustration.
The story elements butterfly book report above matches
this caterpillar book report.
These butterfly writing templates will make your students fly away with creative ideas.
Students write each section of their story in a separate wing of the butterfly.
These caterpillar writing templates will make your students march away with creative ideas.
Students write each section of their story in a separate section of the caterpillar's body.
If you have 25 students in your classroom, you can create a
caterpillar display that is over 15 feet long with
these unique poetry lesson plans. Each student writes a poem
in one of the caterpillar templates.
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June Writing Prompts
Caterpillar Poems
On the above page, you can view all of the projects, worksheets, and teaching
resources that I have created for the end of the school year and summer.
Click on one of the calendars
below to go to a specific page
of monthly writing prompts:
On these pages, you will find creative writing prompts
that pertain to each month's themes, holidays, and events.
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Are you looking for a creative list of writing prompts and
journal ideas to use during the month of June?
On June 4, 1896, Henry Ford put the finishing touches on his gasoline-powered motor
car. He was 32 years old and he worked in a tiny workshop behind his home.
How has the style and design of automobiles changed from the quadricycle to the cars of today?
June 8 is Best Friends Day.
Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Germany. The Frank family moved to
Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, in 1933 and this is where Anne Frank lived
most of her life. Anne Frank is one of the most well known Jewish victims
of the Holocaust because of her diary, which was first published as
a book, in Dutch, in 1947.
Design a flag for your school or city. Write a paragraph describing why you
chose these symbols and these colors for the flag that you designed.
