Deb, I was only able to give you that advice after
having raised two very busy kids.  Until you've carted
them all over the place in mom's taxi . . . whew, no
wonder I'm tired, LOL.

I had another thought.  This is the lights, bells, and
whistles generation where Playstation and Xboxes where
they learn about some historical things (myth more
often than not) on the computer.  They often need a
lot of stimulation.

Saw a little girl on Antiques Roadshow a few weeks
ago.  She was remarkable.  About 10-12, she had
obviously been paying a lot of attention and had
brought--if I recall correctly--a painting that her
mother had dumpster-dived for.

So that makes me wonder.  Are there treasures in your
museum not unlike things that one would find on the
television show, and could you give it a name like
that?  Something about come to our roadshow and learn
about the treasures in our museum, see if you have
things like that at home in grandma and grandpa's
house.

While you're showing them things, you give them the
provenance about those things, and maybe a checklist
they take with them (one piece of paper) to look for
comparable items when they leave.  And you connect
them to the Antiques Roadshow early by asking this of
their teachers when you ask them to partner.  You
encourage them to watch that ahead of time.

Just a thought.  It would be there to reinforce what
you have shown.  Tell them to look at, say, a
washboard, and then think of the many ways in which
laudry was done:  by the creek with a rock, in a
washtub with washboard, in a wringer machine, in a
front loader, top loader, at the laundromat, in the
dryel bags, etc.

Ok, I'm rambling, but that might get them to thinking
and more eager to participate.

Now, if you REALLY want to get wild, you find out
if/when Roadshow is coming to your town, and you have
these little geniuses whose lives you enriched appear
on TV.  Would take some work, but attendance would go
up . . . 15 minutes of fame and such, don't you know?
Wink.

Don't feel badly.  You tried.  You can lead a horse to
water, but you can't make him drink.  The problem is,
they're not even thirsty!


--- Deb Fuller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I think Indy had a good point about trying to
> schedule activities in the Spring
> with all the sports, proms and graduations going on.
> We moved it back from
> early June since it was so hot last year. Wouldn't
> you know that it was 90+ in
> April this year. We can't win. :(


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