It was a moment of half rationalized weakness.The Wii was so great at keeping the kids moving, that a standard video game where the kids really jumped and moved would be terrific.
Well, it would be. This isn't it.
It's basically a joy stick game played with the Wii tools. Great exercise for thumbs... too late to put the genii back.
They've been asking for some time for a Super Mario Day, and today was The Day!
In the picture below, Zorg is Mario, Klenda is Rosalinda, Mxyl is Luigi, and Leena is Princess Peach.
We started out with Mad Libs. These are really easy to make up yourself to suit any occasion. Ours went like this:
One day, Mario and Luigi were at work fixing (pl noun) mushrooms. Suddenly, Bowser appeared and began to (v) spin and say (silly noise), " Wha-aaa!" He was holding the (adj) fat Princess (fruit) watermelon in his (body part) nose.
Perhaps that is as much as you need to read...
We went on to Spelling Bee Mario (there is a part in the game where Mario turns into a bee) using game related words like galaxy, princess, pound, etc adjusted to the level of each Zoomlian.
Math problems were easy to come up with for all 4 operations since the game uses coins as well as "star bits" that you feed to hungry star creatures called Lumas. An example for Mxyl would be: You find 5 Lumas that need 213 star bits each. How many star bits do you need to collect? I also let the kids come up with questions to ask me.
I was going to write a collective story, but we ran out of time.
Science was a must because the Super Mario Galaxy game actually uses galaxy to mean system. Adding insult to injury, some of their "galaxies" are planets orbiting very close to black holes... So we did some true false science with the kids correcting the mistakes of the game.
Last but not least, I found an excellent Super Mario activity book on line here, so I selected the best activities and pictures and printed out copies for each kid. I did have to put them through my photo program to clean them up (put the contrast to 100% or you will use a lot of ink!).
I suppose the actual last thing is the kids all cooperatively playing the game for the rest of the afternoon while I blog!
2 comments:
You are so very creative!!
I like the idea of the true/false quiz. My guys would love that, especially for stuff that is not necessarily historically/scientifically true, but the story has some good elements/is a good story in itself.
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