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What I'm eating, drinking, and inventing today
I went up to Kua'aina at Saitama Shintoshin for lunch, because I had a long period of free time this afternoon, and I wanted to see how long it'd take to go elsewhere for a meal like that. The answer is, a little more than an hour -- with the right schedule it's a 13-minute train ride there, and back... and getting a cheeseburger set, etc, and eating it, takes a little more than half an hour. I'm not sure it's worth doing without some other goal there though. I briefly debated seeing a movie, then decided I'd probly be better off not disappearing for the whole afternoon.
In a convenience store on the way back I saw this:
It tastes about as awful as you would expect... it's a pineapple lemon soda, and WAY too sweet, and it's just this terrible citrus crap. The only real advantage about it is that on a hot day like today, it is very very cold and very very wet.
Then, I spent part of my afternoon trying to think of a fun way to review vocabulary cards for my kids' class. I've been really frustrated with the low quality of the teacher's materials given to us with this year's kids' textbooks -- the last two years' books have had all of these great props and boardgames and all kinds of things to photocopy, but this one has none. So I figured I could come up with a new board game and playtest it while I'd only have the one girl there today, and so, I invented a variation on... Monopoly? Trivial Pursuit? I'm not sure, but, I spent about 2 hours drawing/taping/gluing this:
Basically, the rules are, you are trying to collect one of each of the 8 colors. You roll the dice and can move whichever way you want. When you get to a square, you have to say the target word or phrase (right now, it's the word for each picture). If you get it correct, you get that color. (If it's one of the ones with two colors, you can choose.) Landing on the corners gets you a chance card. Right now the chance cards are: Nothing, Roll Again, Take Any Color, and Move 2/3/4.
I *THINK* this will be simple enough for my kids to understand and play, and simple enough that they can concentrate on remembering the vocabulary, but complex enough to take a while and for them to actually get into it and compete. And I think I made the chance cards clear enough (with drawings) that they can understand.
I put clear tape on the board so that I can tape on and take off vocabulary cards really easily, and thus can change it for whichever class I'm dealing with at the time. (Heck, I could probly play it with an adult class if I wanted.)
UNFORTUNATELY, I finished taping on Lesson 8's pictures at 5:30 and LITERALLY 2 minutes later, we got a phone call that the little girl in my 6pm class wasn't coming, so I wasn't going to have a 6pm class to playtest it on.
DOH!
I really, really, really ought to write up these board games I invent for GEOS and send them out, I've just been too lazy to do so. Today I even talked to my Head Trainer at work for a while on the phone (there was confusion over my day off on June 4th), and he said they'd be sending me paperwork soon about renewing my contract and visa and whatnot. So I suppose I'm not a bad teacher after all.
In a convenience store on the way back I saw this:
It tastes about as awful as you would expect... it's a pineapple lemon soda, and WAY too sweet, and it's just this terrible citrus crap. The only real advantage about it is that on a hot day like today, it is very very cold and very very wet.
Then, I spent part of my afternoon trying to think of a fun way to review vocabulary cards for my kids' class. I've been really frustrated with the low quality of the teacher's materials given to us with this year's kids' textbooks -- the last two years' books have had all of these great props and boardgames and all kinds of things to photocopy, but this one has none. So I figured I could come up with a new board game and playtest it while I'd only have the one girl there today, and so, I invented a variation on... Monopoly? Trivial Pursuit? I'm not sure, but, I spent about 2 hours drawing/taping/gluing this:
Basically, the rules are, you are trying to collect one of each of the 8 colors. You roll the dice and can move whichever way you want. When you get to a square, you have to say the target word or phrase (right now, it's the word for each picture). If you get it correct, you get that color. (If it's one of the ones with two colors, you can choose.) Landing on the corners gets you a chance card. Right now the chance cards are: Nothing, Roll Again, Take Any Color, and Move 2/3/4.
I *THINK* this will be simple enough for my kids to understand and play, and simple enough that they can concentrate on remembering the vocabulary, but complex enough to take a while and for them to actually get into it and compete. And I think I made the chance cards clear enough (with drawings) that they can understand.
I put clear tape on the board so that I can tape on and take off vocabulary cards really easily, and thus can change it for whichever class I'm dealing with at the time. (Heck, I could probly play it with an adult class if I wanted.)
UNFORTUNATELY, I finished taping on Lesson 8's pictures at 5:30 and LITERALLY 2 minutes later, we got a phone call that the little girl in my 6pm class wasn't coming, so I wasn't going to have a 6pm class to playtest it on.
DOH!
I really, really, really ought to write up these board games I invent for GEOS and send them out, I've just been too lazy to do so. Today I even talked to my Head Trainer at work for a while on the phone (there was confusion over my day off on June 4th), and he said they'd be sending me paperwork soon about renewing my contract and visa and whatnot. So I suppose I'm not a bad teacher after all.
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Because the board is kind of small, you could also make up some more vocabulary cards and, when someone lands on a square and gets it correct, replace the one they just got with a new one. Though having the players reinforce vocab by repeating one that a previous person got right is arguably good too. Hm.
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