Friday, September 2, 2011

Fun Friday- Candyland

On Fridays my class has "Fun Friday" activities in the morning.  We have a rotation of games and art activities on these mornings.  Here is the game that we have been playing for the last few weeks.  I have included some of the modifications for the game as we play with my students.


Candyland
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This is my slightly adapted Candyland gameboard.  I have added arrows on the board to try to help the students remember which way they are supposed to go.  I have cards for each student that say "please wait" and then there is one "my turn" card that rotates around the board for each students' turn.  They can practice passing the picture to their peers and also practice speech by using words such as "Here______" or "your turn."

I also have begun to use a two sided container for the cards to help organize them as well as making it easier for me to pass the pile around the table to the student whose turn it is.  One side says "to do" and one side says "finished."  The words aren't exactly what I would make specifically for this game, but I use the containers for another student's work system at times.



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I use small pictures of each student to identify which piece belongs to them.  With the classroom games, I have a piece of velcro on the game pieces and then small pictures that I can attach to each one. 



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This is one side of the communication board that the speech therapist made to go with our game.  This way the students can comment on the cards that they draw and make the game a speech activity as well. (I typically don't use the character cards in the game because it takes too long to get through the game when the players go backwards)


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This is the other side of the communication board (I have several, so some groups have access to both sides at once).  This side includes more advanced commenting visuals, such as "pass a card," and "pick a card."

7 comments:

  1. I love your "my turn" card! My students frequently play board games to work on social skills, turn taking, etc. But they often forget who's turn it is. Plus, this forces them to use good communication. Thanks for the idea:)

    I also recently saw "sight word" Candyland. A teacher had put a sight word on each color card. The students had to say the word before they could move.

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    1. I love the sight word idea. I have several Candyland boards and may adapt one to be a sight word game.

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  2. Sometimes the game can seem to take f o r e v e r
    to play. A brillant COTA and I came up with an adaption. We painted over the squares to make them bigger. We used the same colors but instead of for ex 1 inch colored squares ours were 4 inches. They still got the concept but we were ablt to play the game. Before it seemed like we never had time to play to the end.

    Also, I found a Candy Land Bingo game at the thrift store. You pull a handle on the Gingerbread house and a shape comes out to place on your bingo card.

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    1. I think that the younger class has the bingo game and they have used it with their kids. I have 4 Candyland games for some reason, so I am excited to try and adapt one like you said. The larger color squares are a great idea. I can't wait to try it out!

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  3. I love this - i hope you guys keep posting!

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  4. great adaptions, my little guy uses a head switch and adapted game spinner(we attach the cards to the spinner) for many board games. I love the communication component which is something we work on with my little one as well. I look forward to reading more posts.

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    1. I love that you can use an adapted spinner. We were just thinking about that for one student (in relation to the Valentine's game we made). We don't have an adapted spinner, so right now we are just brainstorming different ways to help the student.

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