To think 'show & tell' in year 4 is dire.

[civicxx]

My DD hasn't done 'show & tell' since year 1. DD is in year 4 now (new school) and has been asked to do show & tell on Friday, what on Earth is she meant to take in?!

When she was little she'd take in favourite teddy etc, favourite baby doll (that you could feed, cried etc) she's dumbfounded at what to take as am I. She said her class mates have brought teddies in but she doesn't want to do that as she felt it was babyish and the questions people asked were boring & I don't blame her!

Help!

Can your daughter make it interesting?

What does the note actually say?

I remember one from primary school where someone brought in elephant poo. It's stayed with me for 40 years. We had to guess what it was. We couldn't!

The rocks thing isn't always crap they might have decorated rocks for a local hide and find project (like #islastones) which they might genuinely find interesting and fun or they might have been found on a beach on holiday!

They’re not allowed to just bring teddies in, in our school. They have to bring something in they can actually talk about and that means something. It can’t just be a toy.

"This is my teddy Jim, he was hand made in a dimly lit factory in Korea where the child workers earn the equivalent of 40 pence an hour.
This teddy has the symbolism of our cheap throw away culture seen into every stitch, blood sweat and tears are his stuffing, to me it's a symbol of love, to factory kids he's a symbol of the never ending work day."

There from crap to interesting

@Incognito8522

Last reply to you as your doing nothing but annoying me. THERE WAS NO NOTE which is clearly the problem and the reason for half the class brought a teddy in and opptunity hasnt been used to its full potential.

sighs very loudly

@CaptainKirkssparetupee

Can i copy and paste that onto a que card for her and actually take a teddy in please? although im unsure any children will have a question for her after that!

if you want but I'm not sure it what the school are after

My ds would take his rubiks cube and bore the pants off everyone demonstrating it. He once took a pomegranate and a toothpick and bored the pants off everyone demonstrating how he could pick out the seeds one by one. One of his classmates brought in a mouldy dried he she had once stuck up her nose and proceeded to put it back up her nose to show how it happened.

If I was a teacher I would do show and tell every day. I bet it's hilarious.

Great learning opportunities with Show and Tell. Even my Year 6s ask to do it. I let them, it's great.

that should be pea, not he.

I so wish you could edit, I never proof-read!

Surely your kids have interests?!

I hser yo fo show and tell with my
Year 7 form. They Loved it. It wasnt compulsory. I just said if they had something they wanted to share. Some bought collections in, some Photos of a relative or event, couns from holidays or found, dances theyve been working on, a musical instrument piece they'd mastered, one a record saying in the olden days this is how people listened to music . I never had a shortage of people wanting to do it on a Friday.

It seems unkind to keep saying how boring and childish other children’s choices have been. It’s a big deal getting up in front of your peers and talking. So what if it’s 'just' a teddy or rocks.

Sure it could be run a bit better but try not to knock what others choose to talk about.

Honest to god i proof read that!

I used to do show and tell with my year 7 form that should have said.

This has to be in writing somewhere though, finding this will save you from a lot of the angst this seems to be causing you.

Could your DD 'lead the charge' so to speak? Send her in with a powerpoint slide deck and a kick ass prezzo? I'm sure the others would raise their game accordingly et voila, self-made learning opportunities for all

@Incognito8522

Why does it have to be in writing somewhere? There is no note, they dont even have homework diarys. There is never a flamming note for 99% of things from this school they are a nightmare. Daughter came home last week and told me she had to write a letter to god about giants for homework (no note no nothing) so she starts telling me what shes planning to write.. about homeless people etc, and im like what the actual hell has this got to do with giants.. then i ask DD if she does infact know what a giant is? (big event near us recently about them so presumed homework was related) her reply you might ask.. a giant is a worry

well, fuck me i nearly had her telling god all about an imaginary superhuman size creatures.

DD will 'lead the charge' with bullet point que cards & a thought out few minute talk about her trip.

Send her in with a powerpoint slide deck and a kick ass prezzo?

Please don't do this. The time and thought should be in what your child is going to communicate to the other children not on bells, whistles, animations, sound effects and colour schemes on powerpoint.

The object is the visual aid.

A casual approach to show and tell really helps a lot of the less confident kids. My DS was one of them, he’s come on leaps and bounds. There’s been plenty of official projects with power points and all the gubbins so I think he’s had the best of both worlds.

I'm really surprised so many 8/9 year olds just bought in teddies. The ones I know would be salivating at the thought of showing off a ballet dance, holiday photos, playing an instrument, doing a karate display etc etc to a willing audience.

Op, whilst the school may well be crap at communicating, as ours isn't and you're new to the school, it might be worth double checking you're on their email circulation lists (or whatever they use).
From ours, we get a weekly memo, which gives you all the information you need. But then people complained they needed reminders. So, now we get reminders too. Grrr. Just make a note in the first place, so that organised people like me, don't have to do it twice. Grr. Tangent rant over.

Sorry when i say new.. she started last september not this september!

i need to proof read a lot more