Parents often ask us what activities they can do at home to compliment the skills their children are learning at Golden Pond School. Playing games is a wonderful way to spend time together and games have excellent learning opportunities. You are helping your child become more self-confident, strengthen executive functioning skills and how to enjoy playing with others.
Check our our GPS teacher-approved games for your next Family Game Night!
AGE 2
- Skills: Fine Motor Skills, Colors, Counting, Shapes
- Game Suggestions:
- Thinkfun Roll
- Play, Move and Groove
- No purchase required:
- Numbers Laundry Sort (find 2 items then toss in the basket)
- Color Scavenger Hunt (find an item in your house of each color)
AGE 3
- Skills: Three Step Directions, Focus
- Game Suggestions:
- Sneaky Snacky Squirrel
- Tell Me a Story
- Spot It Jr.
- Kids On Stage
- No purchase required!:
- Follow the Leader (2 Hand Claps, 3 Shoulder Shrugs, 1 Eye Blink)
- What’s Missing? (arrange 4-6 objects on a tray, cover eyes, take one away, ask What’s Missing?!)
AGE 4
- Skills: Executive Functioning, Flexibility of Mind
- Game Suggestions:
- Zingo
- Zingo 1-2-3
- The Ladybug Game
- Hiss
- Memory
- No purchase required:
- Red Light, Green Light (switch the meaning of Red to Go and Green to Stop to keep the game challenging)
- Tic-Tac-Toe
- Create your own Scavenger Hunt
AGE 5:
- Skills: Problem Solving, Extending the length of an activity with continued success.
- Game Suggestions:
- Jenga
- Kerplunk
- Sequence
- Qwirkle
- Rat a Tat Cat
- Zip Zap
- No purchase required:
- Number Obstacle Course – Use yarn and secure to chairs to create a “laser effect” obstacle course. Clip number cards on the strings. Find matching numbers, find specific number bonds like all of the ways to make 9 or come up with your own math obstacle fun!
- Grocery Store Memory – “I went to the store and bought…” Each person names something beginning with the next letter of the alphabet while also remembering all of the items said before.
