Show and Share: Encouraging Your Child
When your child takes center stage for Show and Tell, he or she learns by doing. This aspect of kindergarten is designed to teach and reinforce skills your child might use throughout life, like talking, explaining, and logical and creative thinking. By guiding your child in choosing an item to talk about, you can be sure the experience stimulates the youngster's imagination. Show and Tell works better when kids take items that they really like. Toys are okay but maybe, your child’s presentation will be much more exciting – to him or her and to the audience – if it’s about a post card or letter received in the mail, for example, or something made at home with Mom or Dad. Other nifty items could be a photograph of a favorite person or from a special trip, a non-toy gift from a relative or friend, a one-page story you and your child have made up together, a picture of Mom or Dad as a child, or a natural object from outdoors, like a piece of quartz or a big pine cone. And because these items aren’t toys, they aren’t likely to cause arguments at school!
Also, consider helping your child prepare a short talk that doesn’t need a “prop.” Why not tell about last year’s vacation or a day of helping with yard work, or make an entirely imaginary tale? It doesn’t have to take a lot of time to get ready. A little creative thinking makes it fun for everyone.
Remember these ways to help: Start early to choose something to tell about. Think ahead about what to say about the item. Maybe even rehearse a bit with your child. You’ll be glad you got involved.
(Note: This was taken from the website, http://www.allsands.com/kids/showandtell_tui_gn.htm, but I edited it to fit my philosophy!)
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