For show-and-tell in school, did you ever present something really odd or unusual?
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June 5th, 2023
Didn’t everybody have some version of this activity in elementary school, where you display or demonstrate something to the class and talk about it?
Do you remember ever showing and/or telling something that was totally off the beaten path?
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Kind of. We had a “bring your dad to school day” and as part of my dad’s talk, he brought in a chunk of plaque that he removed from a patient’s atherosclerotic artery as a “don’t smoke kids or this will happen to you” prop. He sent it around the room, haha. I don’t know if the kids in my 5th grade class ended up less likely to be smokers that their peers, but it makes for a great story.
I showed some weird plants. They were 6’ tall and resistant to cutting.
The science teacher was to look it up for me, and I never got an answer.
My dad then harvested a back yard full of them.
Never found out what they were.
I thought that It was drugs.
3rd grade. My most humiliating moment. I was showing and telling about my Barbie doll and the dress my mom had handmade for her. I was standing in front of the class rattling on and the entire class was giggling. I didn’t understand and was embarrassed. I figured they were making fun of me having a doll. Until I turned her around to look at her and saw that the dress had fallen below her boobs. I sat down at my desk and just cried.
Wasn’t that an uplifting story?
two pound rock crystal Halite; a type of salt, the mineral (natural) form of sodium chloride.
I brought in this huge paper cone Bee Hive that was under our deck to share with my other 4th graders
It was March and still cold when I took it in. The cone warmed in the classroom and bees started coming out that afternoon. I guess I showed them!
Good stories!
@raum, did you really have a pet lobster?
As for me, I stood in front of my third or fourth grade class and explained how I was learning to fly. I described running and then just lifting my feet from the ground, in a kneeling position, like a plane retracting its wheels. I said I would then glide forward at the same height for a little way, and that with practice the intervals were getting longer.
I really believed what I was saying. And the kids were impressed. I don’t recall the teacher’s making much of any comment at all. I did keep up my practice for a while, but never as successfully as I imagined.
Yes! Was supposed to be my dinner. :P
I love that the kids in your class also believed. Wish that lasted longer.
No, but you reminded me of the time my friend in grade six brought a rifle and shotgun for show and tell.
Ahh, Canada in the 90s, where nothing bad ever happened to anyone, or so is my understanding.
I brought my newborn sister (plus mum) when I was in elementary school. Very much a hit. Lots of questions about babies.
Later, I brought my dog several times. She became a celebrity at that school, with kids from six to sixteen getting excited about her arrival. She’s even in one of the school’s calendars.
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