Kindergarten-Grade 2–Readers will happily board the plane with precocious Junie B. as she sets off for Hawaii with her parents. Her school assignment is to complete a photo journal documenting her vacation, but from the start its clear that her adventures are really misadventures. Her first photo captures two grouchpots, one in the seat in front of Junie B., and the other behind. Clearly, neither passenger is pleased with the girls seat kicking, endless chatter, or imaginative games with stuffed elephant Philip Johnny Bob and Barbie doll Delores. In the hotel gift shop, Junie insists on purchasing a parrot swim ring that proves much too small and gets stuck on her body for the entire trip.
Need a break from practice tests and flashcards? ACT Word Games is a fun way to brush up on standardized test vocabulary. By completing a series of challenging games, students learn new words and review old ones, to prepare for the writing and reading sections of the ACT. ACT Word Games includes more than 500 key test words and a variety of fun vocabulary-building activities. Answers are included.
This book, part of the Holiday Fun series, is packed with pictures to color, word searches, crosswords, secret codes, and hidden pictures! Plus, fun games, cute crafts and yummy recipes to make special days fun!
Creating Children's Art Games for Emotional Support
Game playing is a highly effective way of engaging children and has long been acknowledged as an important means of psychological therapy. This book offers an abundance of fun games that help children to confront personal problems and issues in a light-hearted yet meaningful way. These are games with a difference, as they must be constructed before they can be played. The creation aspect involves collaboration and cooperation within a team, and instils an empowering sense of ownership in the creators. By the time the game is ready to be played, children are confident, thoroughly engaged and ready to explore issues in a supportive environment.
Meaningful Games: Exploring Language with Game Theory
In Meaningful Games, the author explains in an accessible manner the usefulness of game theory in thinking about a wide range of issues in linguistics. The author argues that we use grammar strategically to signal our intended meanings: our choices as speaker are conditioned by what choices the hearer will make interpreting what we say. Game theory--according to which the outcome of a decision depends on the choices of others--provides a formal system that allows us to develop theories about the kind of decision making that is crucial to understanding linguistic behavior
