FISH GAME

This game is taken from the book:

A Notebook for teachers of Algonkian languages / [compiled by Mary L. Mitchell].
Publisher: [Ottawa] : [Indian and Northern Affairs, Curriculum Services], 1975.

You can find this book at what was formerly known as the Saskathewan Indian Cultural College. It is now called the First Nations University at the Saskatoon campus.

Making the game:

1. Cut 36 cards about 3x5 out of bristol board.
2. List 18 common nouns with their diminutives (ie. tree and little tree).
3. Draw one picture on each card so that you have 18 pairs of big-little picture cards.

Playing the game:

1. For two players deal seven card each: for three or four players deal five each (play as in the game FISH.
2. Children try to get pairs; when they get a pair, they lay it down in front of them. In turns, they can ask the next player to them for a card to complete a pair. If they get what they ask for, they can keep asking, until they don't get one. Then they draw a card from the pile, and it's the next player's turn.
3. The game is finished when the pile is gone or when one player runs out of cards. The player with the most pairs wins.

N.B. Language Practice: Can be in English, using only names on cards in native language. However, it would be better, if possible, to teach and use the following terms, so that the whole game can be played in the native language.
(Easy) Give me the __________.
I don't have the _________.
Yes, No.

(Advanced) It's your turn
Pick up a card etc.