{"id":147,"date":"2014-11-14T17:17:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/picardal\/?p=147"},"modified":"2014-11-14T17:19:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:19:13","slug":"addition-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/picardal\/2014\/11\/14\/addition-checkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Addition Checkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am always looking for new and exciting ways for kids to learn without them realizing they are learning. \u00a0I showed them today how to play &#8220;Addition Checkers&#8221;. \u00a0This is played the same way as the game of checkers except they must add the two numbers together before they can move. \u00a0If they don&#8217;t add it correctly, they have to take that piece off the game board. \u00a0In order to play this game, I have asked each child to bring in <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">12 pennies and 12 nickels<\/span><\/strong> (I used the smallest value in coins:). \u00a0We will use the money as the game pieces. \u00a0One person will be pennies\u00a0and the other person will be nickels. \u00a0If they are able to reach the other side and get &#8220;kinged&#8221;, they will flip their coin over so they now can move that piece forward or\u00a0backwards.<\/p>\n<p>Are you thinking why do they need 12 of each? \u00a0Well&#8230;.I don&#8217;t know who their partner will be. \u00a0Therefore, \u00a0if they both have coins, your child can decide which coin they would like to use for their game pieces. \u00a0Just to let you know, at the end of the year your money will be returned to you.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you have a checkers game at home, it would be great if you could teach your child how to play the game. \u00a0It will be that much easier for them to play at school when they have to start adding in order to move! \u00a0Your child is looking forward to playing this new game that will help them add numbers together quickly. \u00a0Thank you in advance for sending in the money so that your child can have fun learning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am always looking for new and exciting ways for kids to learn without them realizing they are learning. \u00a0I showed them today how to play &#8220;Addition Checkers&#8221;. \u00a0This is played the same way as the game of checkers except they must add the two numbers together before they can move. \u00a0If they don&#8217;t add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/picardal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/picardal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/picardal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/picardal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/picardal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/picardal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/picardal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/picardal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/picardal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}