Day: June 17, 2020

Wednesday June 17

  • Minute to Win It!: (I used 15 cups)

Minute to Win It!: (I used 15 cups)

STACK ATTACK:

Players must stack up a pile of cups and then place them back into a single stack in under a minute. The original Minute to Win It version of this game calls for 36 cups to be stacked, but we reduced the number of cups for the children. Each child stacked 21 cups, and we discovered that this was the perfect number that resulted in exactly half of the kids being successful. Challenging, but not too challenging! Two players competing in each round works well and allows enough space so that any falling cups won’t accidentally knock over your competitor’s stack, too!

  • Story: Max the Brave
  • Writing: Tell me your favourite part of kindergarten. Did something special happen for you? Did you make a new friend? What was the best part? Playing, recess? math? writing?
  • Math: 

OLD MAID

Kids can develop matching, pairing, and counting skills as they play this easy card game that results in multiple winners and one big loser!

HOW TO PLAY

Number of Players: 2+

Objective: Don’t be stuck with the old maid (the Queen) at the end!

Deal: Remove one of the Queen cards from the deck and deal all of the remaining cards evenly to the players face down. Since there are 51 cards, the number of cards received may be slightly uneven.

Playing: Each player looks through their cards and pairs up any matches. Put these face down in front of you. After all the pairs are matched up, player two draws a card from player one’s hand face down. If player two made a match, place those cards face down. Continue playing, moving clockwise (player three then chooses from player’s two hand).

When a player has paired up all the cards from his hand and is out of cards, he is out of the game and safe from becoming the Old Maid.

Winner: The person with the last card (the Queen) is the Old Maid and the loser of the game!