Guess Who?

Guess Who
An old favourite in our Mushroom.
This game is a great aid to number and early maths in the slightly older pixie. Its all about sorting characteristics and recognising differences. Oh and its fun too. Its regularly brought out first whenever we decide to play games.

Skills and experiences:

• comparing groups of objects ( PSRN) 
• vocabulary about differences and similarities ..ginger hair, beard etc (KUW)
• sorting objects using characteristics ( PRSN)
• turn taking and wining and losing ( PSED)

Available from lots of places but definitely from Amazon

Orchard Toys: Big Bad Wolf

 Big Bad Wolf by Orchard Toys
This game is suitable for young Pixies and those who are a little bit older too.
It involves several distinct skill areas:

• Sharing ( PSED making relationships)
• Number and colour recognition  ( PSRN colour, shapes and patterns)
• Turn taking ( PSED behaviour and self control)
• Fairy Tale awareness. 

In older children it also allows for some 'nonsense' mixing of figures too, which itself leads to story formation and use of rich language to give new names and character descriptions .

A dice is used which has just basic colours on and then the pixies must match the colour on the dice to the colour spots on the back of the cards. An easy skill in which to engage the youngest members of the group. Matching of three cards to make a character from fairy tales allows basic jigsaw making and recognition of  matching pictures, all wrapped up in a very good  game that does not go on too long.

Sadly not a game currently available at Orchard Toys but maybe it can be picked up from Ebay or from a local charity shop.