For Classroom or At-home Parties Alike! This week, I’m excited to work with the Girl Scout troop in Hoboken, NJ to cooperatively tell ghost stories! Perhaps you volunteer in your child’s classroom and are helping plan the annual Halloween party? Maybe you are a teacher looking for ways to both entertain, celebrate, and build skills …
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Try out these fun, connecting and skill-building car games!
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Imaginative fun while skill-building in-person or at a distance.
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Perhaps you volunteer in your child’s classroom as I do and are helping plan the annual Halloween party. Maybe you are a teacher looking for ways to both entertain, celebrate, and build skills on the holiday. Or you could be planning a costume party for family and friends. Whatever your role or goal, the following …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Active listening, classroom cooperative games, Collaboration, Collaborative games, Creative thinking, Empathy, halloween cooperative games, halloween games, halloween party, Negotiation, Nonverbal communication, Perspective taking, Problem solving, Social awareness
We’re going on a road trip, a road trip, a road trip. We’re going on a road trip to see what we can see! We typically venture out on a number of small road trips during the summer months taking advantage of the freedom and warm weather. It’s tempting to hand a child an iPad …
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Check out “A Win for Everyone: Collaborative Games” by Jennifer Miller, author of Confident Parents, Confident Kids on the NBC Education Nation’s Parent Toolkit blog. The article includes numerous cooperative game ideas for you to introduce to your kids whether its in the backyard, at the park, at a school event or indoors on a …
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Category: Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Collaboration, Collaborative games, Competition, Cooperative games, Effective listening, Empathy, Impulse control, Jennifer Miller, NBC Education Nation, NBC Parent Toolkit, Nonverbal communication, Problem solving, Self awareness, Trust building, Turn taking
