Why I Give Kids Choices of What to Do

This week the kids could make door hangers with their names on them. We had lots of stickers to use.

Some searched for letters to spell their names.

One used stickers to create the letters of her name.

One spelled her name on one side...

...and added another message on the back.

UW MAY NOT KUM IN

One chose not to spell his name. He decided to work on another message on his door hanger.

If I had insisted that he spell his name, I would never have seen this.

STOP BEWARE OF MOM

That's why I let kids choose what to do and how to use the materials.
(And I could still teach while he did it.)