I'll definitely need to buy blank Fluxx cards. Somewhere in the
building, we allegedly have a color laser printer. It would be
awesomely cool to print directly on the cards that way, I'm afraid of
mucking up the machine. I don't it doesn't work to print onto the cards
on an inkjet... the color runs unless you spray them with something...
and we're not allowed to have that kind of stuff in our classrooms or in
the school.
I've considered the blank NanoFictionary cards too, and I'm SURE there
is something I could do with them... and I have an idea for the game,
actually. I'm wondering if I can use it to teach my kids how to write
sentences.... and build them into paragraphs. I've done something
similar with color-coded word tiles.
Anybody think this might have a chance at working? 2 of my kids can't
write sentences at all, although they can dictate tolerably well. For
one student, its language... he speaks mostly Spanish, and so he's just
learning English. Of the other 3, one can do nice simple sentences,
one can really write well when she wants to (not often... though she did
do a nice job the first time we wrote to our penpals, and did an awesome
rewrite of a picture book). One student abhors writing, but is really
quite creative.
Magi
Carol Townsend wrote:
This is cool stuff Magi!
Please do write it up when you have a moment - believe me, we all do
understand how little time a teacher has.
Do you need any blank cards? I know that Kristin has a deal in place
for teachers (a 30% discount, I believe... correct me if I'm wrong
Kristin - which may not happen for a few days, as Kristin and others
are at another con this weekend).
Aside from that, I do know that Kristin has a TON of Nanofictionary
Blanxx and if you (or anyone actually on this list!) would like some
in your classroom, you basically just have to ask! See what you can
do w/ a bunch of Blanxx - and then let the list know how it went!
thanks for being such a great teacher Magi! You rock!
Carol
On 4/28/06, Magi D. Shepley <magid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Okay... I think I might wait until this summer though. When we were
having that discussion about different types of Fluxx, I thought about
having my kids make cards. Then, I thought about a themed variety of
Fluxx... and then I realized that I'm going to have one of my students
for Extended School year for 90 minutes 3 days a week... and that this
is the kind of project he'd really get into (I hope!). He likes the
game, and we should have access to the computers and printers over the
summer. I can always print at home if not.
I'm thinking about 'Transition Fluxx' or 'CBI Fluxx'... since all my
kids need to work on those job & community skills. We already have (as
I mentioned a few weeks ago) 'CBI Trivial Pursuit'.
Magi
Carol Townsend wrote:
> If you're willing just to write up how you introduced it to your class
> and how you used it, we'd love to see it!
>
> What I'd love to see is just a bunch of things that we can show to
> teachers saying "this is what I did in MY class... take what's here
> and adapt it to your circumstances." Lesson plans, hints, ideas...
> did you use the game as a central part of the learning or was it a
> reinforcement/reward thing?
>
> And special needs/gifted/HS/elementary - let's cover all bases!
>
> You have wisdom out there folks - share it here if you can!
> Carol
>
> On 4/28/06, Magi D. Shepley <magid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I teach it to my students, but I don't think I've ever developed a
>> formal lesson plan for it. I suppose I could write one, but it'd
>> definitely be targetted at students with special needs ... or not,
>> becuase I did teach it the first time to a group of kids with just
>> emotional disorders.
>>
>> Magi
>>
>> Carol Townsend wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I know we've got a great lesson plan written by David Millians for
>> > Chrononauts - and I've heard of a lesson plan for Fluxx that's
>> > floating around out there... does anyone have that (either a
print of
>> > it or a URL)?
>> >
>> > I've been searching the looneylabs.com <http://looneylabs.com> site
>> > for it and if it's here, it's well hidden. A point in the right
>> > direction would be appreciated!
>> >
>> > thanks!
>> > Carol
>> > (she who used to be known on these lists by the email "ragnardove")
>> >
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