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Review: Building Skills Book 3

At a Glance… Product: Building Thinking Skills Book 3 Publisher: Critical Thinking Company Age level: 12 Plus Grade level: 7th Plus Use as: thinking skills activities, test prep Instruction time: low Prep time: low Cost: $29.99 Rating: 5 out of 5 golden apples Features (from site) Building Thinking Skills Book 3 Figural’s activities are sequenced developmentally. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics. Distinguish similarities and … Continue reading →

Harry Potter Scene It? The DVD Game

Movie fans should give the Scene It? DVD games a try. Our family got the 2nd edition of Harry Potter Scene It? for Christmas. The game can be played with two to four players, or in teams. We divided up into three teams, my husband and one nine year old were one team, our other nine year old and I were another team, and our fourteen year old was on his own. He skunked us all. I’ve heard that kids can trounce adults in the Disney version, too! You do need a DVD player to play the game. An on … Continue reading →

Two Weeks in Review – Fun

We’ve had a rough winter with illnesses at our house. We missed a lot of the fun buildup to Christmas, so we decided to Celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas. You can beat the after Christmas slumps with fun ideas in The Day After Christmas. A Tree For The Birds is a great winter time activity for families. It doesn’t take much time, and makes for a nice yearly tradition. Window Stars are more complicated than I thought, but have intriguing possibilities. When my twenty-two year old niece, our nine year old neighbor, and my fourteen year old all raved … Continue reading →

Apples to Apples – Game Review

Last night our family played Apples to Apples. We laughed harder than we have in a long time. It only takes a few minutes to learn how to play, is a fast moving game, and it is great for multiple ages. The game comes with red apple cards and green apple cards, no dice, no board, no other pieces. Players take turns being the judge. The judge puts down a green card. Green cards have descriptive words like cowardly, refreshing, dainty, frazzled and heartless. The other players each choose a red card. These red cards each have the name of … Continue reading →

2006 Best Games

This year two games shared the title of 2006 Game of the Year in the Toy Industry Association toy awards Hullabaloo and Apples to Apples. Read on for description of the winning games plus three other games that were nominated for the award. Apples to Apples Cost: $20-25 Manufacturer: Cranium I love this game. It is a simple word association game. The cards have different words and each player tries to match a word on their card to a chosen word. One player acts as judge and chooses the winning word. The game gets loud as players try to convince … Continue reading →

Materials to Encourage Spiritual Growth in Kids

All the materials below are ebooks and can be downloaded in an instant! The ABC’s For Godly Children is a comprehensive, Bible eCurriculum centered around teaching children ages 4-10 about the God they serve and how to have a heart like His. By using each letter of the alphabet a Bible lesson is presented in an understandable and interactive format to teach core truths concerning the Gospel, Godly Character, and Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Your children will learn their ABC’s and a necessary Biblical foundation as they connect them through Scripture memorization, detailed lessons, simple crafts, and interactive song.   ~$8.00 each The Dig for … Continue reading →

San Francisco Bans Happy Meals

Many parents are unhappy about Happy Meals. Although McDonalds has tried to nutrition up the meals with the offers of apple slices instead of fries and one percent milk, the meals are still pretty unhealthy for our little ones. But, the kids see the toys that come with the meals (often associated with popular current movies) and want the meal. I know I have to fight my little guy when he wants the Happy Meal MegaMind toys that are out now. This past Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco made a bold move. They instigated an ordinance that … Continue reading →

Scavenger Hunt List – Fall

As promised, here’s the scavenger hunt list. (To review how to play, see Marriage Activity: Seasonal Scavenger Hunt – Fall.) Good luck and happy scavenging this fall! Scavenger Hunt Item List 1. Gaze at falling stars together. 2. Peep at the changing leaves. (Many ways to do this: (a) Pack a picnic and enjoy it in a tree-filled park. (b) Talk a walk or ride your bike along a trail in a tree-filled forest. (c) Take a scenic drive through a tree-filled countryside.) 3. Find a farm where you can pick apples. 4. Bake an apple pie with your fresh-picked … Continue reading →

Owen – Kevin Henkes

Ah, the special attachment to a childhood blanket. In the Caldecott Honor winning book Owen, by Kevin Henkes, Owen is a young mouse that has had a fuzzy yellow blanket ever since he was a baby. “Fuzzy” goes wherever Owen goes, upstairs, downstairs, inside and out. Since Fuzzy likes whatever Owen likes, Fuzzy also has stains like juice, chocolate milk, and applesauce cake. Everything is fine for Owen and Fuzzy until their next door neighbor, Mrs. Tweezers, tells Owen’s parents that Owen is too old to be carrying around that blanket. That night Owen’s parents tell him that he puts … Continue reading →

Cranium Super Showdown

Here’s another game that brings a lots of laughs to our house. Cranium Super Showdown is similar to Apples to Apples in that the players take turns being the judge. On each turn the judge picks a “Contest Card”. These cards say things like “climb to the top of Mt. Everest the fastest, or “kick a winning goal”, or “make someone laugh until milk shoots out of their nose”. Each player picks from his or her hand of challengers. The “Challenger Cards” have characters like Pinocchio, Barbie, Willy Wonka, a nurse, a librarian, or a frog prince. The players each … Continue reading →