Dec. 1, 2010: Let's Play a Game!

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in The Denver Post. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers. Click here to learn about subscribing to the eEdition at no cost to you (for Colorado teachers).

Activities:

1. Use newspaper words and pictures of games to create a "Let's Play" poster.

2. Ask several older people to tell you what they learned from playing games.

3. Circle the names of local places and streets in your newspaper that you could use for a Community Monopoly game.

4. How are these important in the history of games: (a) Milton Bradley, (b) Charles Darrow, (c) Parker Brothers, and (d) Lizzie Magie?

5. Make a list of the things your friends like about playing games together. Write a paragraph about how games can make you a better person.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them. This week's standard:

• Students apply interpersonal and social skills in relationships that lend to individual growth, maturity and good character. (Character Education)
  

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)