The 17 Big Ideas
#16 - Tell It Like It Is
 
 
 
 
Note to Adults:
  Communication is a big word to a first-grade boy, but it is an important one. This big idea lets your Tiger Cub learn some of the many ways people communicate with each other. It also has the goal of letting him learn how to communicate better with those around him. The activities here are designed to make it fun and interesting.
 
 
  Activity Suggestions for Families:
  1. Develop a family scrapbook.
 
  2. Learn about sign language, or braille writing.
 
  3. Start a family code.
 
  4. Hold a family discussion with each member talking about what makes him or her happy or sad.
 
  5. Let your Tiger Cub interview you about your job, and, in turn, interview him about his day at school.
 
  6. Make your own family newspaper using headlines and pictures cut out of newspapers and magazines.
 
  7. Learn about Morse code.
 
  8. Find out how the emergency planning agency in your community would inform you of an emergency.
 
 
  Activity Suggestions for the Tiger Cub Den:
  1. Visit a TV station.
 
  2. Visit a radio station.
 
  3. Visit a newspaper.
 
  4. Play a game of charades.
 
  5. Play "Tell It Like It Isn't" in which a one-sentence story is whispered from one member of the den to the next, with each member changing one word. The last person repeats the story out loud.
 
  6. Visit a ham radio operator.
 
  7. Visit a CB radio operator.
 
  8. Visit the post office.
 

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 Idea 17
 
 

Last Updated: 9/30/00 JRC