Materials:
You need a scoreboard paper for each player, some kind of marker to cover the numbers on your scoreboard (I used bread tags - you can even use coins) and two dice. You can print the scoreboards that I sent out, or make your own.
If you don't have dice, there are many dice apps!
If you don't have dice and don't want to use an app, and you do have a deck of cards, then pick out 2 each of Ace to 6, and shuffle them every turn.
Roll 2 dice (or pick two cards), add them up, and then put a marker on the corresponding number on the scoreboard. Its that easy!
If it is your turn and you roll, and already have covered the number, you don't put a marker on your card, and the next person goes. Keep playing until someone covers all of their numbers.
The person who covers all of their numbers first gets to yell Yahtzee!
____________________________________________________________
We are working on a few different skills here. The first is counting the dots on the dice. If you roll a 5 and a 3, for example, you might count "one, two, three, four, five.... six, seven, eight" and point at the dots on the dice. A pencil might help with the pointing!
If your child is still learning to count, then we would keep counting this way.
The next skill that we could be working on here is called "counting on". If your child is able to subitize one dice (for example a 5), then they can start at 5 and then count on to eight. "Five, six, seven, eight". You can model it for them by saying "Oh, I know that is a FIVE", and point to the 5 dice. and then say "and now I am going to count on the rest".... and point to each dot on the next dice. "Six, seven, eight". When we count on, we should always start our counting with the highest number.... but if your child can subitize a 3, and not a 5 yet, then maybe start at 3 and count on.
No comments:
Post a Comment