Onnie's Blog

Mar. 4, 2008 - Games

I've been trying to include some board games into our days. Today, we played Scattergories, which Ariella did pretty well at. This was the first time she played the game. I gave her two timers worth to come up with words while I had only one, but she did pretty well coming up with words for each prompt. Since it was her first time playing, I didn't really focus on correct spelling, but when we play it again, I'm going to at least point out to her the correct way of spelling her words. Today was just to introduce her to the game and teach her the rules. Kaylah played too...she was on my team. She rolled the letter die, named the letter and then I read her the prompts and she had to think of answers that begin with the letter sound. Most times, she would just name answers that did not begin with the letter.

We also played Mastermind. Ariella played the code maker and I played the codebreaker. Which means, she came up with the code (the order of various colored pegs) and I had to work my way up the board trying to break the code. She answered my guesses with littlle pegs. It's a logic game. Again, it was just to teach her the rules. Next time, she'll take a turn being the codebreaker! Kaylah's part was to put the pegs in where I directed her to.

Other games we've played are scrabble, chutes and ladders, hi-ho cherrio, candyland, bingo, making change, don't break the ice, boggle, and a few card games.