Brock’s Academy was founded on the belief that every child has the capacity to love learning. The challenge is to fit learning to the child’s personal style and interests. Games are a great way to do this and there are hundreds of very fine games sold as educational games.
But what if your child wants to play a classic game? Chances are they will still have exposure to multiple learning opportunities. Below is a list of fifteen classic games and the learning skills they develop.
Classic Games for Pre-Readers
- Go Fish – attention span, memory, pattern recognition
- Candy Land – colors, pattern recognition, attention span
- Chutes and Ladders – counting, classic work = reward paradigms
- Memory – pattern recognition, attention span, working memory
Classic Games for Independent Readers and Beyond
- Monopoly – making change, budgeting, financial planning, adapting to unpredictable circumstance
- Battleship – logic, planning, deductive reasoning, problem-solving and memory skills
- Scrabble – reading, vocabulary, spelling, attention span, long-term memory
- Clue – deductive reasoning, problem solving, memory skills
Classic Games for Teens
- Cribbage – mental math, decision making, strategic planning
- Poker – pattern recognition, working memory, decision making, statistics
- Risk – strategic planning, working memory, adaptation
Classic Games for the Whole Family
- Uno – colors, numbers, patterns, logic, reason and playable for range of ages
- Charades – teamwork, vocabulary, contextual inference
- Dominos – pattern recognition, logic, decision making
- Yahtzee – numbers, pattern recognition, decision making
We wish you a happy holiday and many happy family game nights in the new year.
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