Do you do show and tell or sharing in your classroom? We call it Sharing in my classroom and it is a fun, meaningful, and beneficial time. My students get so excited to share their favorite toys, keepsakes, photos, and more!
Why Is Sharing Important?
Community Building
- Learn more about your students’ personal lives
- Build community as they find common likes and interests
- Makes a fun home-school connection
- Families can help at home be practicing their presentation with them
Student-Centered
- Helps quiet ones start to speak up when they are talking about a beloved object
- Lets kids share things from home that they are passionate about
- Kids work on speaking in complete sentences
- Audience students can ask a question or make a comment about what is shared
- Our Sharing Time is right before Friday Choice Time (read about that HERE) and they are able to play with or share their items during that time
Speaking and Listening Practice
- Speaker practices calling on classmates by name
- Speaker works on answering audience questions or responding to their comments
- Students work on clearly describing objects or events with relevant details
- Learn to follow basic conversation/discussion rules
- Students in audience work on sitting still and proper listening skills
- Helps prepare my students for future presentations in our class and beyond
- Use these simple presentations for a Speaking and Listening grade
I send this home the week before we start.
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How Does It Work?
- I introduce Sharing Time by reading the book Henry’s Show and Tell
- I share an object of my own the week before we start to show how Sharing Time runs
- I make a “Sharing Schedule” that gives each student one Friday per month. We call the groups 1st Friday, 2nd Friday, etc.
- I send home the schedule the week before Sharing starts…it also includes our grading rubric so parents and students can practice at home
- I post reminders in the newsletter and/or do a verbal reminder for students during morning meeting to let them know when it is their week
- Students can bring an object, a picture, or can tell a story
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Happy Teaching!
Jennifer ~ Practical Primary Teacher
