Wednesday, July 07, 2004

It's fun playing games...

... with your child. I just finished a game of Monopoly with my 5 year old son, Harry. It happens the be the Lord of the Rings Monopoly game that he got me for Christmas. Normally, he really does quite well - as in winning. Unfortunately, I won tonight. (c:

In all seriousness, though, Monopoly is an awesome game to work on the simple math skills. Think of all the addition and subtraction you need to do. Plus a bit of multiplication and financial planning and sportsmanship. I suppose there is word recognition - for the properties - but not really reading. Not yet, anyway.

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