Memory games

Concentration Memory Games

Kindergarten rules-
Take the time to model and practice how to play. 
Lay the cards on the floor or table in an even array with straight rows and columns. Or use a pocket chart.

Cards can be face up or faced down depending on matching skill, number of cards and skill level of players.
Determine the direction of play moving to the left or to the right.
Students take turns turning over two cards while naming the picture or word. The cards must stay in the same place. After turning the cards over, player must sit back with hands in lap and count to 3.  This gives everyone a chance to see and memorize the position and the card revealed.  If they don't match, the student flips cards back over in the SAME place.  Students tells next student, by name, that it is their turn. ("Joe, it is your turn.")  If they don't know the student's name, they need to ask.  
If the cards match, player keeps the pair.  The decision whether the player will have another turn, depends on the players' game playing skill and number of cards to match.
 
Memory games can be made by using bottle caps for letter matching, capital to capital, capital to lowercase, lowercase to lowercase, sight words.
 

Cards can be made with shapes to match a theme or as simple as squared cards.

Matching cards can practice rhyming with pictures to pictures, words to words.  
Match letter to beginning sound pictures or words to pictures.  
Number quantity to equal quantity, numeral to numeral, numeral to set, ten-frame to numeral, etc.

Consider the players' attention span when determining how many cards to match during one game.  At the beginning, the fewer the cards the quicker the game will go and keeping the student's attention and interest.

With younger children, an adult should monitor the progression of the game.  Score does not need to be kept at the first.  All students are congratulated that they helped each other find the matches by playing.

Considering the maturity of the players, will set the  atmosphere and interest to play more games.

Hand-in-hand we grow!

Janet