Fun and Games Books

This book is advertised as being suitable for ages 9 to 12. Well, after getting it for my young daughter, it really looks to be more suitable for the upper end of that spectrum. The book is nicely laid out with an interspersing of jokes and exercises, but so far the actual riddles that you've got a chance at figuring out are pretty few and far between. Most of the riddles are ones that you really can't figure out.

Anyway, I'm more impressed with the other "everything kids" books I've purchased.

This 16-page workbook is a good addition to a foreign-language library. Some children seem to engage in learning more if they have something to do, rather than just listen and recite. There are a couple cut-and-paste activities, a maze, dot-to-dot, crossword puzzle, picture puzzles, punch-out characters with clothes and one origami-type toy. For intriguing puzzles, humor and an all-around entertaining book we enjoy First German On Holiday by Kathy Gemmell, available here on Amazon.

This book has sections on the following series: Alien; The Amityville Horror; Child's Play; The Evil Dead; The Exorcist; The Fly; Friday the 13th; Halloween; Hannibal Lecter; House; The Howling; Night of the Living Dead; A Nightmare on Elm Street; The Omen; Poltergeist; Prom Night; Psycho; The Return of the Living Dead; Silent Night, Deadly Night; The Stepfather; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. There is a chapter for each title in the series, and each one begins with a discussion of the movie, with some humor.

There is another section, "Psychos on Parade," which has a chapter for each of the following: The Hitcher; I Spit on Your Grave; Taxi Driver.

This book also contains:
Our Favorite Things: A Horror Lover's Blood & Guts Crossword Puzzle
The Horror Movie Titles Word Search Puzzle

This is a good intro to airsoft, but it's available for free directly on the Manitoba FREE Press website.

How to Write a Story isn't quite what I expected. I thought it would be more like How to Write a Super Sentence. The book isn't bad. There are only four stories and then they have some resources in the back for making a writing center.

I used the questions, but not the game. (PowerPoint Jeopardy) It has great questions that are broad enough that even my special ed students could be successful. For grades 5 and up.

the entire collection of "frank" is not very organize and plan, they have still not get the idea of different levels and topics and they do the same in all levels but with different styles or they will focus is some stuff but not all, the Mexican influence is quite the same for all their books and they do not take in consideration other cultures words. Otherwise the pictures and the coloring sheets are very creative.

This game contains a keyboard & cards with different songs to play & identify. There is very little trivia other than knowing the songs. It contains the gold & red books as well. (other supplements are available). Most of the songs are American standards, with a small number being pop or country classics. If you are looking for a trivia based music game, you may prefer Pop-Up Video, but this isn't going to give you what you are looking for.

The first puzzle in this book in the Light and Easy section was very difficult. I solved the second one without too much trouble but had friends help do the first one. Not the best book to start out with.

Also the sudoku in this book aren't symetrical like I saw in my friend's Japanese published book.

It was cheap and fit into my cargo pants pocket so I can't complain too much.

Although, I use these plays in my classroom and they have been "okay" for the purpose of building fluency and prosodic reading, I would like to have seen texts that attract the young readers more. The plays give plenty of information and try to do so in an interesting manner, however they just don't draw a young readers interest. And by trying to pack so many facts into a few pages, the plays can sometimes seems dry. It takes a lot of finessing to get "by-in" by the students.