Lessons Learned - teaching 10 year olds

I'm done teaching 10 year olds at church this year, but I do have a couple of lessons learned that I didn't know at the beginning of the year.

Here are a few:

• Chalkboards - they love to write on the board. It didn't matter if it was selecting the person who said prayers, keeping scores on games, filling in blanks, etc.

Getting the chalk from the library - this was a task they looked forward to and often wanted to go get tape, scissors, etc. Maybe they just liked roaming the halls.

Role playing - they liked when they got to act out characters in the Book of Mormon.

Word strips - this was the winner. They loved putting together scripture word strips, matching different words to different categories or whatever. This is the one thing that I did where even the most rebellious kids would say "I love doing this!"