Growing Everyday » Remember when http://www.westbergfamily.net Watching our children grow everyday. Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:43:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Games We Play http://www.westbergfamily.net/2009/01/games-we-play/ http://www.westbergfamily.net/2009/01/games-we-play/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:49:13 +0000 Jen http://www.westbergfamily.net/?p=448 Beka was at a birthday party tonight. Some of the girls started a game of duck, duck, goose. And it got me thinking about the different games we have played in my house. There were many winter nights that we played duck, duck, goose. But once Beka and Jared were into the game, we changed it. We played dog, dog, puppy and letter, letter, number, and color, color, shape. The different themes kept the kids interested in the game and also reinforced concepts.

As a family, we play hide and seek alot too. At first, it was all about the counting. Could Beka and Jared even count to ten. Now, when we play, it is more about can I scare the daylights out of the seeker? Maybe, I need to start making the seeker count by 2′s to 40 or something.

I, also, remember playing so many word games with the kids. Outside on the swings in order to earn an underdog, they would have to spell a word, tell the beginning or ending sound of a word, solve a math problem. Beka and Jared would ask to play this game.

I haven’t been making learning a game lately. With school and homework, learning has become about worksheets and memorization. I need to remember these games we played and how fun learning should be.

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