Let's Hear It For Games!

Thanks to all of you, this month's sharing theme of games- the non electronic type, has been a huge hit!  The children have done an outstanding job of presenting their game, explaining the rules and then making it available to play with their friends at Explore time. I'm very impressed with this crew's turn taking abilities and their willingness to include others.  From the very beginning of the month we established that if a game had had four players and a fifth child wanted to join you could say, "sure, you can be on my team" or "this round is full but you can watch".  And this group really does it!  We've learned some cool new (to me) games and relearned some old stand by's.  Here's a look at in in action including a look at Friday's math game- Grab Bag 10.  In this game students take turns taking a handful of cubes out of a bag and spilling them on a 10 frame.  They then arrange them pair wise to see if every cube has a pair (it's an even number) or if there is an odd-cube-out (it's an odd number.  Last, they record the number on a white board noting if its odd or even.  The big aha...even numbers are doubles!