Peaceable Kingdom Hoot Owl Hoot - Cooperative Matching Game For Kids
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Pros
- Enjoyable for a range of ages, including adults, to play together.
- Levels of play can be made more difficult by adding more baby owls to the game.
- Facilitates growth of self confidence, leadership skills, and collaboration among players.
Considerations
- An adult may need to assist students if disagreements arise over how to proceed in play.
Mindprint Expert Review
Hoot Owl Hoot is a collaborative board game that will encourage shared decision making, creative problem solving and a sense of community. Players work together as a team against a common obstacle, not against each other. Hoot Owl Hoot is, in essence, a color-coded cooperative matching game. Players help the owls fly back to their nest before the sun comes up. Each child plays a color card and flies an owl to the next available space. The goal is to help all the owls get home before the sun rises. When kids play cooperative games they work together to help each other and create strategies for success. While designed for multiple players, this game can by enjoyed by a single child. No reading is required to play the game. The bright colors, fun imagery and sweet theme of helping baby owls will engage most children.
Academic Benefits
Improves academic skills
- Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
- Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
- Presents educational concepts accurately
- Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
- Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
- Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
- Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)
Fun
Engaging for the Mindprint recommended age range
- Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
- Visually appealing to children in the target age range
- Adults would enjoy playing with a child
- For electronic games, gives positive or encouraging feedback
- Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
- Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option
Easy to Use
Understandable for children in the Mindprint recommended age range
- Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
- Student should be able to use independently after first use
- Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
- Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
- Does not require excessive set-up time after first time use
- Can be fun as a single player game
- Multi-player game which fosters collaboration or cooperation
- Well-made for the cost
- For electronic games, can play without sound
- For electronic games, allows user to save work
- For electronic games, voice/sounds are appealing and pronounces words properly
- Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
- Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
- Overall - Easy to use
Manufacturer Description
Hoot Owl Hoot! - The Color-Coded Cooperative Matching Game! Hurry Owls! It's time to go home! In this game, which has won multiple awards including Dr. Toy Best Green Product Award, players help the owls fly back to their nest before the sun comes up. Play a color card and fly to that space. Draw a sun card and you're one step closer to daylight. Help all the owls get home and everyone wins! Two levels of play allow this game to grow with your child. Game includes 1 game board, 6 owl tokens, 1 sun token, 14 sun cards, 36 color cards and instructions for two versions of game play.
Children will learn:
- Simple Strategy
- Problem Solving
- Following Directions
- Taking Turns
- Social Development
What's a cooperative game? It's a game where everyone plays together, no one is left out, and everybody has fun!
Cooperative games emphasize play, not competition. Kids work together, help each other and, most importantly, they play for FUN!
Cooperative Games foster:
- Non-stressful play situations
- Emotional development
- Shared decision making
- Creative problem solving
- A sense of community
- Positive self esteem
This Peaceable Kingdom game is 100% green: it's printed with soy-based inks on FSC paper and includes only with recycled plastics. Games that are good for our planet and good for our kids!
Since 1983 play has been the heart and soul of Peaceable Kingdom. Silly play, special play, wholehearted play! We create experiences to help kids play well together, so they can play well in the world. Our games and gifts connect kids and families, encourage learning and self-expression and let imaginations soar.
When play comes from the heart and feeds the soul, that's Peaceable Kingdom!