{"id":10286,"date":"2015-10-26T13:34:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T17:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10286"},"modified":"2015-10-26T13:34:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T17:34:45","slug":"056366-speakingkid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/10\/26\/056366-speakingkid\/","title":{"rendered":"056\/366: SpeakingKid"},"content":{"rendered":"

SteelyKid’s second-grade class is doing a “Zoom Time” thing where the kids make short presentations to the class about one of their interests. It’s basically an expanded show-and-tell, with fifteen minutes for talking, and five for “questions and compliments.” <\/p>\n

She, of course, decided to talk about taekwondo, so I brought her sparring gear in and she suited up:<\/p>\n

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SteelyKid in sparring gear for her “Zoom Time” presentation. Daddy included for scale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The highlight of the presentation was when she let the whole class come up and take turns punching her in the chest to demonstrate the effectiveness of the padding. I have a couple of really good shots of that, but I try to avoid posting photos of other people’s kids on the Internet, so you’ll have to settle for this one of her showing off her mouth guard.<\/p>\n

In sort-of-related news, the Pip has started doing the “Little Dragons” taekwondo class (for 3-5 year olds), and is supposed to get a uniform today, so you can expect a photo of both kids in martial-arts attire at some point in the near-ish future…<\/p>\n

(This picture might be cheating a bit in photo-a-day terms, because it was actually taken by SteelyKid’s teacher using my camera, but the pictures I took all had other kids in them. I like the way the framing and perspective in this shot make it look like I’m coming through a door that’s less than shoulder height on me…)<\/p>\n

By the way, the “questions and compliments” period is a great idea– about half of the kids who raised their hands were just offering praise: “This was a great Zoom Time because it made me want to try taekwondo so I could be like you.” I think adult academia could stand to adopt this idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SteelyKid’s second-grade class is doing a “Zoom Time” thing where the kids make short presentations to the class about one of their interests. It’s basically an expanded show-and-tell, with fifteen minutes for talking, and five for “questions and compliments.” She, of course, decided to talk about taekwondo, so I brought her sparring gear in and… Continue reading 056\/366: SpeakingKid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,2,50,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}