Danger Man to the Rescue

Saturday classes can be tough. I have 15 children in each of the Baby-Brat classes. That's just too many. Only 8 showed up for the first class, and it was sooo much better. My Let's Go 1 class is only 8 students and they are a little behind my other Let's Go 1 class. Sometimes we actually have to work on the alphabet. And then there is the Let's Go 3 Class. 4th and 5th graders who will barely speak above a whisper. They aren't very enthusiastic. And we had a tough time with the lesson today. It was much harder than I thought. So when we only had 10 minutes left and had several things scheduled left to do...I thought "Screw it!" let's give them a break and play Danger Man. It is really just Hangmen, but not only is Hangman a little too gruesome, it also isn't exactly apparent what is going on without some verbal description. I read about this form of Hangmen on the internet. The kids understood immediately the peril that our little friend was in, and would scream when I erased one of the parachute lines when they got the letter wrong. Remember, these are the kids I have trouble getting to say "Here" when I call attendance. They even ran to the board and tried to erase the teeth of the shark. I guess I can safely say I will be playing this game again.