2009年8月27日木曜日

Michael loves games (anything with points and winning)


I was talking with a friend about how I teach my son English and was explaining how important games are to Michael. He gets really worked up about winning and learns like crazy. Also, if I tell him the rule is "English only," he still follows it...mostly.

-Uno, great for strategy
-Crazy Faces, plays like crazy eights, kind of like Uno in a way
-Picturika, very nice vocabulary game, but not popular to Michael yet since there are no "points" to count
-Transformers Battle Card Game, which we play like "war" for now, playing 1~6 cards to compare who has more points in the hand. Very nice for addition practice. Mikey looooves addition and sits there adding up all the cards in his hand to imagine the ultimate high score attack.
-Battleship, which he cheats by looking...can't yet persuade him that we're suppose to play it by GUESSING where the ships are...
-Life, which he calls the money game, and loves in scary wealth greedy way, and
-Good ol' Scrabble, where I allow him to use any as many tiles as he wants to make as long of a word as he wants to get as many points as possible. With a dictionary, he comes up with words like Quixotic. He couldn't care less what it means.
-I'm hoping to get him initiated into Chess and Shogi soon. He'll be kicking my butt in a few months, but oh well.

Any suggestions for good non-digital games? Please leave a comment. We're trying to keep him away from Nintendo DS as long as we can, but I have a feeling that's going to start causing stress when he starts Japanese first grade next April. Unless we can really get him into analog games and suck in some of his friends...
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