| Why can't learning be fun? Make it a game. | | | | have decks for each of the following: |
| Most anything can be modified to fit a | | | | science, history, language arts, and the |
| current board or card game out there. There | | | | Bible |
| are many flashcard sites on the internet that | | | | |
| have free access to flashcards on many | | | | Scattergories: Name 10 mammals... You get the |
| subjects, although I have found most too | | | | idea |
| advanced for my 6-year old. | | | | |
| | | | Outburst and Taboo are also other favorites |
| War: War is that game where there are two | | | | in our house. |
| players (you can use more). The dealer deals | | | | |
| out the entire deck of cards so each player | | | | You can also make your own game. Get |
| has an equal number of cards. Each player | | | | posterboard, several different colors of |
| keeps his cards face-down and lays out the | | | | stickers and index cards. Use the stickers to |
| card off the top of the deck. The player who | | | | create the "spaces" on the board and the |
| laid down the highest/biggest card gets all | | | | index cards for the clue/question cards. |
| of the cards in the pot. Anyhow, we have | | | | Don't forget to add lose a turn, and other |
| several decks made with ordinary index cards: | | | | specialty cards. You can make the game pieces |
| fractions, math operations (addition, | | | | out of either mini plastic animals from |
| subtraction, multiplication, division), | | | | somewhere like Target or get the big 1-inch |
| alphabetizing-the card closes to "A" gets the | | | | puff balls, glitter, google eyes, glue, |
| pair, and for my youngest, picture cards and | | | | cardboard for the feet and make your own. |
| she identifies more/less or bigger/longer. | | | | |
| | | | In short, make learning fun. I have learned |
| Trivial Pursuit: If you can come up with 6 | | | | (relearned) a ton of stuff I forgot from |
| categories, you can play trivial pursuit. We | | | | grade school and had fun doing it. |