Showing posts with label Card Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Card Games. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Game Schooling - Storage Edition
Plastic soap containers or similarly-sized snack containers work great for storing card games:
I found these at the dollar store. I love that the lid clips to close the container. Now we can do away with rubber binders holding decks of cards together!
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Game Schooling - Games for the younger set...
I also have the great pleasure of walking alongside a friend of mine as she begins the homeschool journey. Her kids love to play games at my house, too!
Among the favorites:
Tenzi - Throw a set of dice (Tenzi is supposed to be with 10 dice, but we started with 5 and worked our way up.) Decide on which number you're going to "collect." Keep the dice showing that number and throw the rest of the dice again. Keep any of the number you are collecting, and then throw the dice again...until all your dice are gone. With older children this can be a speed game. This works on counting and number recognition for the smaller kids:
War - Remove non-numeric cards from the deck and deal the rest between 2 players. Players turn up their top card at the same time. Whoever has the higher number takes the trick. Keep playing until all the cards are gone. Then practice counting even higher by counting who has the most cards!:
Hide and Eek - This game works on the concepts of odd/even and higher/lower for numbers 1-100. There is also a little memory work involved for cards that do not remain face-up. And there is some strategy for where to move the mouse once you've rolled the dice and know whether you're trying to land next to numbers that are odd/even or higher/lower:
Scrambled States of America - This game works on letter recognition (example: find your states the begin with the letter "A") and syllables (example: find a state whose capital has 3 syllables) along with state recognition by shape and location. Fun and quick enough for the big kids to enjoy with the little kids. Bigger kids will catch on to state capitals and nicknames, but this game is not so rigorous that I would include it in the learning games for middle schoolers:
Among the favorites:
Tenzi - Throw a set of dice (Tenzi is supposed to be with 10 dice, but we started with 5 and worked our way up.) Decide on which number you're going to "collect." Keep the dice showing that number and throw the rest of the dice again. Keep any of the number you are collecting, and then throw the dice again...until all your dice are gone. With older children this can be a speed game. This works on counting and number recognition for the smaller kids:
War - Remove non-numeric cards from the deck and deal the rest between 2 players. Players turn up their top card at the same time. Whoever has the higher number takes the trick. Keep playing until all the cards are gone. Then practice counting even higher by counting who has the most cards!:
Hide and Eek - This game works on the concepts of odd/even and higher/lower for numbers 1-100. There is also a little memory work involved for cards that do not remain face-up. And there is some strategy for where to move the mouse once you've rolled the dice and know whether you're trying to land next to numbers that are odd/even or higher/lower:
Scrambled States of America - This game works on letter recognition (example: find your states the begin with the letter "A") and syllables (example: find a state whose capital has 3 syllables) along with state recognition by shape and location. Fun and quick enough for the big kids to enjoy with the little kids. Bigger kids will catch on to state capitals and nicknames, but this game is not so rigorous that I would include it in the learning games for middle schoolers:
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Summer Break is Over
Yep. We took a little break for Vespera's graduation and a family camping trip. Now we're through with summer break.
Mane agreed to do the summer reading program with Borders book store and with Barnes & Noble. And yesterday the librarian gave her a bunch of info on the library summer reading program. Aside from those things, we took out her calendar yesterday & decided to put a sticker on it for every day that she practices reading. If she reads for five days in a row, I agreed to take her on one of the rides at the Mall of America. Yes, I know it's bribery. Yes, I know it's using extrinsic rewards. And, yes, I think we need that kind of motivator right now. Mango & I discussed it & decided to see what happens if she has some very consistent reading practice. We shall see.
This week we'll be reading Paul Revere's Ride and The Declaration of Independence: A Museum in a Book in preparation for the 4th of July.
I taught Mane to play one of my favorite card games: Fluxx, which combines symbol recognition skills with a little bit of reading and some strategy. If anyone else has good game recommendations, I'm all ears!
Mane agreed to do the summer reading program with Borders book store and with Barnes & Noble. And yesterday the librarian gave her a bunch of info on the library summer reading program. Aside from those things, we took out her calendar yesterday & decided to put a sticker on it for every day that she practices reading. If she reads for five days in a row, I agreed to take her on one of the rides at the Mall of America. Yes, I know it's bribery. Yes, I know it's using extrinsic rewards. And, yes, I think we need that kind of motivator right now. Mango & I discussed it & decided to see what happens if she has some very consistent reading practice. We shall see.
This week we'll be reading Paul Revere's Ride and The Declaration of Independence: A Museum in a Book in preparation for the 4th of July.
I taught Mane to play one of my favorite card games: Fluxx, which combines symbol recognition skills with a little bit of reading and some strategy. If anyone else has good game recommendations, I'm all ears!
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