Go Fish

So...

The regular deck of 52 playing cards, the ones that we play games with, like Bridge and Gin Rummy and Go Fish, are actually an ancient language of life that was hidden in plain sight.

and gypsies used to use them to do card readings and then they were persecuted by the church during medieval times and known as the devil's picture book and so it's been hidden and now it is coming to light the actual meaning of these cards they are symbols that exude energetic patterns.

And it's all based on math.

Yes.

But I'm going to say I am grateful for Go Fish.

Go fish.

Go fish, yeah.

With the kids.

I had my grandkids over yesterday, and I was like, oh, I bought this game of go fish like years ago for when I was going to be able to – I'm like, oh, I remembered.

So I got it out and opened it up, and Montgomery and I played while Lincoln was having his nap.

And it was just so much fun because he loves all things board games.

We're now in the, the crux of getting into all sorts of games.

And so we've started to play go fish.

And as we started to play go fish, my natural tendency as a parent is, okay, let me teach you how you play this card game.

And I go about it in a grownup fashion.

This is the, these are the rules.

This is the way that we're going to go about learning it.

And interestingly enough, an eight year old, eight year old can grasp that a little bit, a five year old, a little bit different.

We had to, it took us about an hour and a half and a ton of patience, both for myself and my daughter to teach our son how to go about learning go fish.

So I made some cards just on the computer, and each card had a different note on it, on the clef lines.

And so we started playing Go Fish with these cards.

And so he started learning his notes from this Go Fish game.

So I would ask him, like, "Do you have a G?" And he would need to be able to look in his cards and see if he had the note G.

So he actually learned his notes from this Go Fish game.

And again, having access to these classes does help predict his success because this is a career and technical education classroom.

Um, I've been in the FACS room, Family and Consumer Science, where I have adapted, um, re- recipes using vision or different pictures because some of my students can't read.

Okay, never mind.

I know Gin Rummy, Go Fish.

[laughs]

Oh, I love Rummy.

They even make those tiny little versions w- in this cute little tin, but sometimes we'll just bring our own regular size versions, too, depending on what we've got going on.

I also like to keep a deck of cards, Uno, a mini bingo set, and Go Fish.

All of those are great compact options, too.

Even a small container of Play-Doh and a couple of tiny toy trucks or cars, those go a long way.

I love this because you're sneaking in a little reading, some problem-solving, and critical thinking while your students are having so much fun.

Another really easy idea is to grab an old deck of Go Fish cards.

Have students randomly choose one card, then they walk around the gym looking for the person who has the matching card.

You can also use famous pairs.

Going out there, meeting people, bringing them together to make interesting games.

Uh, Emma May is an, uh, an illustrator, product developer, a, a game inventor, uh, who created a, a card game called Qwirk, which is a bit like Go Fish, and she's now working on, um, a, a tool for game developers called Pipe Curve.

Mm.

Um, which I've mentioned previously on the podcast-