My Weird School Game

This is fun and my grandson loves to play this. We don’t tell him he’s learning structure and grammar. He’s learning a lot of new words too!

Granddaughter who just finished first grade absolutely loves this. I can see this really helping with her reading skills. Her four-year-old brother can help by matching the cards by color. Fun game for the three of us to play.

This is a fun game with silly combinations for kids. Unless you’re playing with all adults, remove the “naked” card first! My third graders would turn this real inappropriate real fast…

Impulse buy for Christmas ended up being my daughter’s favorite gift! Up to four players compete to create silly sentences based on characters from the book. Educational and extremely fun. The sentences are hilarious, especially to a six year old!

I teach resource special education reading and math. This game is perfect for my students who can't completely read the Weird school books yet but are working on it. This introduces them to the characters, teaches rhyming, grammar, and reading. Each student excitedly read the cards and tries their best to make silly sentences. With the points at the top cards it teaches them decision making. It also teaches them to be good sports when the wild cards are played and it messes up the plan they had. (Which in my opinion is a life skill, because life doesn't always go they way we plan). I have had this game two weeks and the kids beg to play it.

This is a fantastic game! My 7 year old son loves these books so I thought we would give the game a try and it has been a big hit. He keeps wanting to play again and again. He is practicing reading AND math while playing and doesn’t even realize it’s educational. He just thinks it’s silly and fun. I think even kids who haven’t read these books would still really enjoy this game. What has also been greet about it is that there are not too many pieces and it’s pretty compact. I have a 3 year old who usually rolls in like Godzilla on any game play we have set up. We’ve been able to play a bit when she is awake because she isn’t too enticed by any shiny small pieces. We can usually keep her distracted with something else long enough to play a round or two. So that’s a big win!

I bought this game for my 5 year old daughter after getting to know the characters through Dan Gutman's read alouds. You do not have to be familiar with the books to play the game or to have fun creating silly sentences. The only benefit of having familiarity with the stories is that you know the teacher rhymes and they are easier to spot. We have had fun playing this with a variety of ages -- from the 5 year old to grandparents. The cards are labeled as to whether they are the teacher, rhyme, action (verb), adjective or noun. It is a great way to introduce sentence structure and grammar in fun way. You also can work on math skills as each card is worth a certain number of points and each player accrues points each round. I could see us giving this and one of the books as a birthday gift for her friends once they join the ranks of independent readers.

My 7 and 5 year olds loved making the crazy sentences with this game - due to colour coding the 4 year old could also join in, she knows her numbers to 5 so she could use a bit of strategy too - then we would read her sentence for her. A fun game to help with rhyme, learning nouns verbs.