We know that play is a great way to motivate children to learn and have fun at the same time. Here are some suggested games to stimulate learning!
LeapPad Explorer – French version
by LeapFrog
Recommended age: 3 to 9 years old
The educational and personalized LeapPad Explorer tablet is specially designed for children. This tablet allows them to play, create and learn with pleasure!
The tablet includes:
- A curriculum that goes beyond that taught in school.
- A built-in camera and video.
- Levels that automatically adjust to the child's level.
- Over 100 games and apps (works with English and French Leapster Explorer games and apps)
- Motion Sensitive
Games and apps sold separately.
Comments by Anick Pelletier, remedial teacherAll LeapFrog educational consoles allow children to develop their ability to learn on their own. Their general knowledge will be stimulated, in addition to their skills in organizing, memorizing and thinking.
Portable veterinary clinic
by Playmobil
Recommended age: 5 to 7 years old
Open the Playmobil veterinary clinic and treat sick animals. The clinic includes four minifigures, kittens, puppies, guinea pigs, runs and lots of other accessories. The veterinary clinic is easily transported thanks to its handle.
Comments by Anick Pelletier, remedial teacherThese are essentials to ensure the development of social skills. The Playmobil range allows the child to understand the world around him through symbolic play, a means of expression by which he can bring out needs and states of being, while imitating or representing the real world around it.
Mont-à-Mots Singeries
by Ludik Quebec
Recommended age: 5+
Mont-à-mots Singeries is a bodily and oral expression game that appeals to the creativity of toddlers while stimulating their imagination. Through mime, sounds and riddles, players must discover the word appearing on the chosen card. Whoever discovers it receives a banana and the first player to collect five wins the game.
Comments by Anick Pelletier, remedial teacherThis is one of the most wonderful tools that combines pleasure and learning. Mont-à-mots Singeries develops cooperation, vocabulary, categorization and playing skillswith the sounds of the French language.
Fossil Discovery - Tyrannosaurus Skeleton
by Edu-Science
Recommended age: 6 to 7 years old
The Edu-Science Fossil Discovery game will excite your young budding archaeologists and paleontologists! Tyrannosaurus set includes: skeleton trapped in excavation debris, hammer, chisel, brush, goggles and instructions.
Comments by Anick Pelletier, resource teacherThis article provides an opportunity to perfect your scientific knowledge of archaeology. It stimulates curiosity, questioning and the search for hypotheses, skills required during all problem solving.
Interactive World Map
by Zanzoon
Recommended age: 6 to 11 years old
Go on an adventure with this interactive map that will make you discover the world. Travel through 78 countries and discover their capital, spoken language, historical sites and monuments, their emblem, their flag and more! When your child has acquired certain knowledge, he can test it and face his opponents with the Quiz modes (2 levels of difficulty). More than 1000 information and questions about the countries of the world to discover!
Comments by Anick Pelletier, remedial teacherHere is a great tool with which children can learn the geography of our world. It is by using their listening skills andmemorization that he will be able to learn new information and that he will be able to answer the questions asked.
Lego Creator 3 in 1 Beach House
by LEGO
Recommended age: 7 to 9 years old
Build a dream house by the sea with the LEGO 3-in-1 Sea House Creator!
This model has a 2-storey interior with a sunroof, removable floor, double doors, veranda and shower. It includes the mini figure of a surfer, a seagull, a crab and a fish. It's packed with accessories including a life ring, windsurfer, barbecue, sandcastle and even a wave in the sea!
Comments by Anick Pelletier, resource teacherAll LEGO constructions can be interesting toys in terms of imagining and recreating skills. They can allow the child to understand the world around him through symbolic play.
Jungle Speed - French Edition
by Foxmind
Recommended age: 7+
Test your child's reflexes and sense of observation with the Jungle Speed game!
You place a totem in the center of the table and each player has a stack of cards they must dispose of to win. Players take turns flipping one of their cards over so that it is face up. If two cards with an identical symbol are visible on the table, the two players to whom they belong mustenter into a duel. The first of the two to grab the totem gives all their cards to their opponent.
Comments by Anick Pelletier, remedial teacherHere is a game that develops speed of execution, attention skills, visual recognition and short-term memory term. Laughter and excitement are also on the agenda!
Hedbanz
by Kroeger
Recommended age: 8 to 11 years old
An entertaining quick quiz game where you never know who you are until you start asking fun questions like "Am I a chicken?" or "Am I a bicycle?" and find out if the character on your banner is an animal, an item or a household item. Everyone will know except the guesser!
Comments by Anick Pelletier, remedial teacherHedbanz develops both receptive (listening and understanding) and expressive (explanation and description) language, including vocabulary, formulating questions, retrieving images and words from memory, and associating ideas.
Star Theater 2
by Uncle Milton
Recommended age: 8 to 11 years old
Get your kids watching, listening and talking as hundreds of stars and constellations are projected onto ceilings and walls with the Star Theater 2 game that makes you feel like you're in a real planetarium !
Comments by Anick Pelletier,orthopedagogueThis is a great game through which the learning of the solar system can be done, in addition to giving the opportunity to develop its organization in space in 3D.
Joe knowing
by Ludik Quebec
Recommended age: 10+
Do you always have the answer to everything? Knowing Joe is an original puzzle game that has nothing to do with the conventional trivia game. Starting with clues on a variety of subjects, your team will show off their knowledge by finding the solution to puzzles that are sometimes fun, intriguing or annoying. The goal is to discover as many puzzles as possible in 2 minutes. The less clues you use, the better your team's chance of scoring points.
Comments by Anick Pelletier, remedial teacherIn addition to ensuring family fun, this knowledge game requires thinking before acting to ensure a good game strategy, while requiring speed of execution and skills to be categorized.
