The Boys

Anybody who's ever taught high-energy kids knows that we have to keep them moving.  This is my weekly 2-hour class with the 'boys' at NHCLS.  I really had to keep them going-and-going-and-going.  As the year ended, I am already missing the happy energy.  I sometimes wonder if they need more rigor.  

In the effort to differentiate and keep things rigorous I had to give student choice (more like parent choice at this age).  It is up to students to make these -

Characters are compiled on Ppt. for students to print out on their own card stock.  

They can decide whether they want to define the characters on the back of cards or notate them so they remember how to say them.  As an incentive, they will now have the skills to participate in fun character recognition activities in class.