It takes a village to pull off an oral presentation for a 6 year old, but we did it! Matthew wrote out his note cards Saturday (just clues, no sentences) and Sunday we pulled together the poster (didn't take much convincing that a poster was easier than a diorama). Matthew, mom, and dad all worked on this but Matthew had complete control over content, color, and glitter glue decisions.
Matthew practiced once on Saturday in front of me and once in front of mom & dad and I was really shocked at how good he was at this on the first try. He has discovered actually giving the presentation is a lot of fun (not so fun for the writing and drawing). Sunday morning he got up and wanted to practice with Andrew and then we did it again in the evening and video taped it so he could see himself and we could save it for posterity. Each time he delivers the presentation he "ad libs" a bit more! Update after school today...Matthew said his presentation went well today and that he was the only one who chose dolphins (so far). Unfortunately, the video is about 20 seconds too long for upload to the blog or YouTube, so I will have to edit before posting. Sorry!
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