Fun and Games Books

Great little book with good activities for middle schoolers! Came promptly and in good shape! Thanks!

I was given the task of creating a Guided Studies class for special education students at my middle school. I decided it should focus on organizational skills, study skills and test taking skills. This book has been a tremendous resource of ideas for the course and for lesson plans.(specifically with the organizational and study skills).This is the perfect resource book for the middle school teacher. It gives information teachers need to be teaching students, even before "reading, writing and arithmetic", to help them be successful as they progress through their school years. A+

I have now reviewed about ten books on middle school study skills, and there are others better than this one.

This book is divided into three parts: (1) getting it together, (2) What's my grade?, and (3) learning to learn. Much of the book is direct at the teacher, who is urged to micro-plan his or her classroom experience, e.g., have pencil, pen, and paper, use homework helpers, getting set up for class, having a place to study, and so forth. Ernst then writes about grading systems (not sure what that has to do with study skills), and then, finally, addresses some specific study skills. The suggestions in the section "Reading This and That" seemed fairly elementary to me, and were not, in fact, process skills that students could use.

I found Laurie Rozakis' book Super Study Skills to be more useful in this age group. William Luckie's book Study Power is more useful in the high school and early college age group.

I'm the author of "Middle School Study Skills." The information I posted back in 2000 was not meant to be a review. However, it has since been categorized as a review with ZERO stars. As you can see, that brings the average down to 2.5 -- not too good. Please either make my entry information only, or -- if it has to be categorized as a review -- make it 5 stars. (I like my book.) Thanks.

I purchased several Pioneer books recently in preparation for a Pioneer unit that my homeschool coop was having. This book is my favorite. It has lots of practical, fun ideas and projects. Some books have "kid friendly projects" but then I wonder "for whose kid??" This book delivers! Definitely worth a look!

homeschooling about the west. It has lots of nice crafts to do. Although, the fort they had an example did not work for us. We had to improvise with lots of hot glue.

Apologies--I haven't read this book yet, but I had to say something about this point. While Wiley & Son's activity & craft books are generally outstanding, there is a potentially serious problem with this one. The Hopi and Navajo activities included here should be handled with extreme care.

Hopi kachina dolls and Navajo sand paintings are both sacred items in their cultural context. While they are commonly promoted as tourist items and (wrongly) as appropriate "multi-cultural" activities for children, a settler in the southwest in 1843 would most likely *not* have encountered them unless they were actively involved with the Hopi or Navajo to the extent of becoming tribal members active in the Hopi or Navajo religions.

Kachinas are deities for the Hopi, interceding between humans and higher powers along the same lines as Catholic saints. Kachina dolls are representations of the kachinas, given to children to teach them about the different spirits, what they wear and how they act. The kachina spirits spend half of each year living among the Hopi villagers in the form of costumed dancers, in a cycle of often playful but still sacred festivals.

Navajo sand paintings are sacred components of healing ceremonies, which can last several nights (the length depending on which ceremony it is). The painting is made near the beginning of the ceremony, as a map for the spiritual journey the person will undergo, and is erased at the end.

White settlers in the Southwest might have seen Hopi kachina dolls held by children, and might have witnessed Hopi kachina dances (probably from a distance); but Navajo sand paintings they would *not* have seen unless they were part of a healing ceremony.

If you use the Native American sections of this book, please do so only with the understanding of the sacred nature of these activities, with proper respect for their meaning. Do a little more research, and make sure both you and the children grasp the nature of the belief systems that Hopi kachinas and Navajo sand paintings represent. To do these activities with your kids is a little like playing at making Catholic communion bread and having a mock Eucharist ceremony.

Thanks for reading!

PIONEER DAYS is a wonderful hands-on approach to teaching our children the pioneer lifestyle. The book follows a ficticious family thru the year 1843 and allows you to learn with your children what life on the homestead was like, including crafts, recipes, games and more. I would recommend it to homeschoolers especially as a good source for pioneer study. It has a good bibliography in the back for additional readings on the time period, including the LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE series. If you are hooked with this style of learning, there are other titles in this series (AMERICAN KIDS IN HISTORY) with which you may continue your study of American History.

Most activities in this book are only appropriate for very young children. I am a fan of Barbara Sher's other books so I bought this without browsing it first. Many of the '300' activities are chants with various words. For example: "we've all got a name, first and last, tell us your name and we will laugh". Another activity is to let the child smell food flavorings. Fun stuff if you're 3 but there isn't much for an 8 year old.

This is a great book to be able to grab when you need an activity. One thing that I really enjoy about B. Sher's activities is that the are low prep. and you know that anything you find in her book will be of value to the children.

Like Barbara's other books, Self Esteem Games is a well-written, easy to read, fun guide to a serious subject. Is appropriate for parents and professionals alike.

Wonderful book for parents, teachers, baby-sitters, etc. Gave the Hebrew edition (available in Israel) to a friend who enjoyed using it to entertain the children on a trans-atlantic flight. I highly reccomend this book and others by Barbara Sher, including "Extrodinary Games with Ordinary Things"

Ideal for 2 -7 years olds. Realistic pictures, and easy to follow stencils, easy to peal stickers - just the right size for travel or use at home during a 'quiet time.'

My three year old loved the sickers part of this set. He is so currious about Dinosaurs and this book really interested him more! Great set for Preschoolers.

This small collection of booklets as more than enough stuff to keep the dino loving child busy on a rainy day. Recommended fun.

This book is a good resource to have kids practice and drill math concepts. It contains both new games and also variations of known games like domino, bingo, tic-tac-toe but always using a spinner with numbers as the basic tool. There are several concepts that can be practiced like whole number operations, geometry, probability, measurement, fractions and some more. Some of the activities include critical thinking skills like having the kids write their own story problems to a given answer. Other activities are easier like just having the kids make operations with the mathematical symbols included in the spinner.

Although there is a wide variety of games, I think it eventually tends to be boring for the kids if you use it a lot, because it always deals with a spinner. I recommend better, the book "25 super cool math board games", because it reinforces the same concepts but with a larger variety of games.

This book is full of excellent ideas and games. It is perfect for classrooms and the home.

We use it all the time

This book is full of great ideas . Not only are there many examples of easy activities without expensive equipment, but there are also suggestions for food recipes that will delight your children.
I highly recommend this book.

This is an excellent book for fun, learning and just great family times. Some of the ideas are more complex then others so the activities you choose depend on your time and how much you want to get involved at that time.

For every activity it lists all you need and complete directions which are really detailed for that activity.
The resources are wonderful! It list magazines, books, websites, organizations which are related to each topic and just branches out the fun and learning.

This was a nice book to keep around for further reference. Great to have on hand!

While some ideas seem too much work and/or time involved, it's a great book. What I liked about this book is that it gives you lots of fun facts throughout the book. For each activity, it lists materials you need and the directions on how to do that activity. At the end of the book, it lists magazines, organizations, and websites relating to Family Fun.

What a delightful way to generate ideas for spicing up a cozy/comfy relationship or showing that special new person how thoughtful and creative you are!

Or...wrap it up as a gift to gently say to someone what you really might like and keep the passion alive.

We've used the "52 Things to Do in the Car" on trips with our 3 and 5 year olds, and it has helped pass the time and keep them from getting too bored (or watching DVDs the whole time). We also use some of them on the plane. The "games" are good for a range of ages--some are too advanced for my kids yet, but others they can do with help. It's nice and small to bring along. You only need paper and pencil or crayons for most activities (imagining things, spotting things, letter and number games, pretending). Wish I had these on all those long car trips we took as kids!

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This book has lots of fun and educational activities for children. Some are math puzzles, counting, and basic addition, others include drawing, observation puzzles, mazes, and lots more. With lots of well-done colorful illustrations that keep the book interesting without making it overly cluttered Learn and Have Fun Activity & Game Book is recommended for home school or to supplement a traditional school program.

Includes activity language skills for chldren ages 5 to 6. There are: what's missing between 2 pictures, counting the spots, match objects with a connecting line, matching pictures, opposites, drawing missing elements, mazes, and differences/likenesses. Can you find the monkey's banana? Which mask matches which costume? Match the number of spots on the duck with the number in the left-hand column. Help Jack find his dog.

Clever activities and games to help 5 to 6 year olds build language skills in a fun and enjoyable way.

This is a welcome addition to the game development bookshelf. It is oriented to having youngsters begin designing games. If you have a young boy or girl, and they are into playing games on a PC, this book is intended to get them into designing their own games.

The book uses, and supplies a copy on the CD-ROM, Game Maker software. This is a 2D game development system that allows for the creation of games without requiring programming. Building a game, hoever, is not unlike programming. You have to define what the characters look like, you have to define what they can do. You are doing a lot of the same logic that programming requires.

Perhaps your little game player can be made into a game maker. And just possibly he or she will learn something about computers while they are developing their own game. Possibly this will give them an introduction into what they want to do later in life, not necessarily design games, but almost any task in the computer industry.

I know of no other books that take this approach, and I like it.

I bought this book for my kid to learn GameMaker. A very good book for beginners.

Tired of your kids playing video games? Buy this book.
Easy to follow, my 10 and 14 year olds are using this book and having a great time. It is has step by step instructions. They are having fun designing and creating their own game.
No prior experience necessary.
I hope that more books like this are in the works.

I am a Girl Scout Brownie leader and my troop is having a tea party for Thinking Day. There are many imaginative and helpful ideas in this book. Last year's tea was a great success. This book will make this year's even better.

A fun book that gives eight suggestions for tea parties, including a Classic Tea Party. Each party is laid out in the same format, though hostesses are encouraged to design parties to fit their needs. Ideas for invitations, decorations, place cards, refreshments, crafts, games and other activities and party favors are simply and thoroughly described. Extra tidbits about tea, preparation for tea time and quotes from books about tea are scattered throughout the book, making for fun reading. This book encourages creativity, and will inspire many to have tea parties for their friends!

I purchased and viewed several children's Tea Party books before settling on this one. It had great ideas for hosting several themed parties-listing everything from invitations, to refreshments (and recipes) to crafts and activities. A good find.