Educational Toys

sausagefingers

can anyone recommend good educational games for primary school, we're starting a games club in my school.

seahorse61

You should check cogs the brain shop. www.cogs.ie
Loads of educational toys

Cailin CoisFarraige

I've been using Rory's Story Cubes with my class recently, find them great. They're good for all ages, and levels (academically and in terms of English language). Fantastic for building up oral language skills and imagination (leading to great creative writing) and encouraging groupwork.

Moonbeam

Lego

Lisha

Connect 4
Draughts/checkers
Guess who

byhookorbycrook

When you say games do you mean board games? What classes? Will someone be teaching them how to play the games?

pooch90

battleship-encourages strategy and logical thinking
Cluedo-same thing.

sausagefingers

Thanks for the feed back , the Rory's story cubes our great for literacy lessons. byhookorbycrook, The games club is for kids from 3rd to 6th class , we have some of the usual games like guess who, cluedo, head bandz but we were going for some more strategy/ problem solving games that require a little more thinking. pooch90 thanks for the tip

byhookorbycrook

What about the sudoko games?
Would these be out of the question http://www.prim-ed.com/webshop/Literacy/Problem-Solving/Literacy-Perplexors ? PrimEd also do "Brain snack " cards that our more able children LOVE. The Dingbats game is good fun and makes children think! Outside the Box have some good bits and pieces too. They are based between Newbridge and Naas and would be worth calling to, before you invest. http://www.otb.ie/index.php/component/virtuemart/search?keyword=games&limitstart=0&option=com_virtuemart&view=category

If you are near Outside the Box, the tiny Well- Red (not a typo!)is worth a rootle.

Dys12

BrainBox Memory Training Games are great fun, I know some schools have them for 'rainy day' activities. There are lots of different titles from Ireland, Maths, Inventions, Horrible Histories to Fairies, Teddy Bears, Art, Football... and lots more. Might be worth a look!

http://dyslexiadublin.mygostore.co.uk/furniture/brainbox-memory-games.html

sausagefingers

seahorse61 wrote: »

You should check cogs the brain shop. www.cogs.ie
Loads of educational toys

Hi seahorse thanks for the heads up, i went into Cogs the brain shop at the weekend, its BRILLIANT! Dys 12 they have a great selection of the brainbox cubes, you can play with all the games and they offer teachers a 10% discount. I bought Q bitz, Maths dice tournament kit, Set and Qwirkle.

slimpickens

I popped in to this shop today. Good selection of toys I can use in my class.

Moonbeam

Robot Turtles is great too,not sure if it is still available as it was a kickstarter but it is brilliant.

ian87

We were encouraged to use snakes and ladders and the classic board games during our maths self assessment. Great for problem solving practice.