A game to review any topic

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Toss upIn my last post I shared a few simple games that doesn’t require a lot of preparation and that can be adapted to many different learning situation.

This game here, Toss Up, does require some preparation and can be used to review a topic at the end of a chapter or unit your child is working on. It is one of these games that you can take the time to put together that you can then use many times for any subject or content.

Although the post describes it as a classroom game and with the aim of learning new content, you can easily adapt it for home to help your child revise any lesson.

Changes I would bring when playing this at home with one or two children only:

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Games that you can adapt to many learning situations

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game-characters-622658_640Often, when I suggest using games to improve learning, many parents first believe that coming up with a game for every learning situation is something very hard to do.

Well, first of all, every learning situation doesn’t require a game and games don’t have to be used every single time you want learning to take place.

Secondly, games are actually not that hard to come up with and are even sometimes very easy to prepare and set up.

Here are some games that you can actually adapted to many different learning situations and that are very easy to set up.

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Hijacking board games

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Board games for learningGames are great for learning!

They can help your child grasp and process concepts quickly and make the new connections last.

This is one of my main strategy to engage children and have fun while learning.

Having said that, lots of parents complain that they don’t always have the time to to prepare these games.

And true, it often requires some time to create some of the learning games from planning to finished output.

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Use your child’s learning material to create a treasure hunt

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Treasure hunt as a learning toolAll the children I know love a good treasure hunt!

And even though they require a little time to prepare, they are not difficult to put together.

The process is explained here step by step in great details. Follow the guidelines to make your first treasure hunt a success.

They also have some great ideas about the format you can use for the clues.

Now, here is our little trick, when you create clues, go through your children’s school books and see what your child is working on so that you can include this material into the clues.

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