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joann10
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Posted: July 29 2014 at 8:19pm \| IP Logged

I am trying to decide if I want to purchase Building Thinking Skills level 1 for Kim and Luke? I would like some sort of critical thinking work. Is there something better out there? Are there hands on things that would suit this purpose? They are both real smarty pants so it is hard to keep them challenged so any games or curriculum that would help keep them "calmed" down or nicely engaged would be a wonderful addition to our days.
So: Critical Thinking?
manipulatives using thinking skills?
games that cause them to use their very smart brains constructively.

Aagot
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Posted: July 29 2014 at 9:28pm \| IP Logged

Mind Benders is really fun and takes no planning.
May I suggest an out of the box idea? Go to the Odyssey of the mind web site and look at the spontaneous problems. Some require prep on your part but others don't. Select one or two for each week so you are ready to go. I bet your kids will love them.

I just realized that there are only a few problems at the site. If you google "spontaneous problems for om " you should find a bunch.

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Posted: July 30 2014 at 7:29am \| IP Logged

Games - Blokus,Banangrams, Set, Quiddler, Chess, Stratego, Risk, card games. Also Sudoku.Equate, Muggins, Equalz, Yahtze, Backgammon, Dominoes, Connect 4.

Critical Thinking Press books are expensive - find more reasonable series like Logic Safari?

Latin is great for Logic.

Legos?

Jigsaw puzzles

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Posted: Aug 02 2014 at 12:55am \| IP Logged

Chess.

Like most families, we've played casually and my kids know which pieces do what. But this year, we are starting "Chess Fridays" in place of Morning Basket. I've been reading recently about all the gymnastics real chess players go through and the parallels of how the game is played and how a person thinks critically about life are fascinating.

So I'm not expecting little Bobby Fishers, but we are taking this year to really study the game using this book.

We also invested in a triple-weighted chess set that seems to give the game more "gravitas". This is much better than the cheap-sets we've bought in the past. The pieces feel solid, good, and deliberate in the hand. (Plus they stand up better to the little bumps typical of big family life... and we can take it to the park without worrying a breeze will disrupt the game.)

We did Mindbenders last year, but are trying this out for "logic" this year.

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