{"id":1475,"date":"2009-11-06T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2009-11-07T22:26:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T02:26:50","slug":"taking-center-stage-for-show-and-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/taking-center-stage-for-show-and-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Center Stage for Show and Share"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Show-and-Share

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When your child takes center stage for Show and Tell, he or she is learning by doing. The experience is designed to teach and reinforce skills your child will 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.<\/p>\n

Show and Tell works better when kids take items that aren\u2019t toys. After all, most toys aren\u2019t news; children play with them at home and school every day. Your child\u2019s presentation will be much more exciting \u2013 to him or her and to the audience \u2013 if it\u2019s about a post card or letter received in the mail, for example, or something made at home with Mom or Dad.<\/p>\n

Other cool items to send: 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.<\/p>\n

Also, consider helping your child prepare a short talk that doesn\u2019t need a \u201cprop.\u201d Why not tell about last year\u2019s vacation or a day of helping with yard work, or make an entirely imaginary tale? It doesn\u2019t have to take a lot of time to get ready. A little creative thinking makes it fun for everyone.<\/p>\n

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\u2019ll be glad you got involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When your child takes center stage for Show and Tell, he or she is learning by doing. The experience is designed to teach and reinforce skills your child will 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[1423,1421],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preschool","category-pre-k","tag-pre-k","tag-preschool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}