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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is a slippery slope with letting one kid show off something they think is cool. Then every kid is going to want to. Or the questions start, and the teacher loses a solid half an hour that was already designated for a specific lesson. Sorry OP. It's a rock. Life goes on. [/quote]

Plus 1 million. This in a nutshell!

-----Teacher[/quote]

Yep.

Show & Tell are bygone days. I'm not even sure that "show & tell" is politically correct either.

So much for encouraging confidence, promoting speaking in a group setting, pride in ownership, and all the other positives from the 30 seconds of showing off something special to you as an impressionable kindergartner.[/quote]

What do you mean by "politically correct"? Who is offended by the concept of show and tell?[/quote]

Nobody.  It's just PP's way of diminishing the rights of others who are legitimately marginalized by "non-PC" things.  By suggesting somebody, somewhere is offended by something that is pretty much not offensive, it becomes easier to brush off those who complain about truly offensive things.[/quote]

At our school, it is called "Share" and it happens during "Morning Meeting," and the kids know the time and place for it. Morning meeting is a time when every child in every grade is encouraged to speak in front of the class, every day. Also, at our school, OPs daughter would have been invited to add her fossil to the rock collection in the science area where everyone could explore it at the appropriate time (science rotations, independent study time, "choice" time, indoor recess on a bad weather day). [/quote]

"Sharing" in a Responsive Classsroom is usually limited to one or two children a day, and days are assigned in advance, just like Show and Tell usually was in the past.  The speaking outloud in Morning Meeting is quicker, usually something like saying your name in a silly voice. [/quote]

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