Great Game Ideas For Your Child’s Class Valentine’s Day Party

The Valentine’s Day party is a great party that a lot of kids look forward to every year. It’s full of fun and sweets, plus an afternoon without classroom work. What child wouldn’t enjoy that? If you have volunteered to organize the games for your child’s class party, here is a list of fun games that all the kids in the class are sure to enjoy.

Valentine’s Day Card Box Contest. What kid doesn’t enjoy a little competition? Give the instructions to the teacher a week or two before, that way the kids and their parents have plenty of time to come up with ideas and decorate their box. You could instruct them to use specific colors, such as red, pink, and white or you could limit what time of supplies they use. However you and the teacher decide would be the best way to go about it. The day of the class party you have all the kids vote on their favorite box. You can give away prizes for the best, the prettiest, the funniest, and the craziest boxes.
“I Love My Neighbor, Because…” Game. Have all the kids sit in a circle and give each child a pencil and a piece of paper. Instruct each child to write as many nice things as they can before the time is up about their classmate on their right. Tell them they can write things like, “Suzy always shares her crayons or Bobby always plays games fairly.” Once they understand the instructions, you can set the timer and let them get started. When the time is up, have each child find the Valentine’s Day box of the student they wrote about and put their list in their box. There really isn’t a winner or a loser in this game, it’s just a nice way for the students to be kind to each other.
“Guess How Many Kisses” Contest. Take a glass jar or container and fill in up with Hershey’s kisses. After the jar is full, dump them out and count them, so you know how many are in the jar. Take the jar to the class party and set it on a table with index cards and pencils. Have each child guess how many kisses are in the jar. The child who is the closest wins the whole jar of Hershey’s kisses.
The Incredible Heart Search. Spend the week before cutting out 25 to 30 paper hearts that look pretty much the same, (ex. same color, same size, same type of decorations, etc.), that way the kids won’t confuse them with other Valentine’s Day decorations in their classroom. After you cut them out, go the night before and put them up in their classroom. You can put some in plain sight, some under desktops, and some on the floor, just try to be discreet and be creative. The next day during the Valentine’s party, let the children go around the room and find as many hearts as they can. The child who finds the most hearts in the winner.
Heart Beat. Cut out enough papers hearts for each child and put instructions on the back and a piece of candy taped to the front. The instructions should say things like “hop like a bunny”, “skip in a circle”, or “touch your toes”. The day of the party divide the students up into two teams at one end of the room and at the other end of the room you put the hearts in a pile. Have the students “walk-race” to the end of the room where the hearts are and grab a heart. They must perform the action and then “walk-race” back to their team. Once they slap hands with the next classmate in line, that classmate will “walk-race” to the pile of hearts. This continues until one team wins for doing it the fastest.

How to Fish Out Terrorist Analogous Talk During Discreet Communication Surveillance Interception

The terrorists, drug cartel, foreign spies, and criminals all realize by now that the good-guys or Big Brother is watching and listening. Listening to and watching what you ask; well, more often than not – everything. Okay so, let’s talk about this shall we?

There was an interesting article in NextGov on May 24, 2012 titled; “Pentagon Enlists Scientists to Build Intel-Decoding Software,” by Dawn Lim which stated that;

“The Pentagon is launching a four-and-a-half-year research funding effort to build computer software that can analyze intelligence data and “see through language” to tease out hidden meanings in texts, cutting the time for analysts to file intel reports. The experimental program; Deep Exploration and Filtering of Text would be software to scan one or more languages; Arabic, Cebuano, Chinese, Pashto, Dari, Farsi, Ilocano, Spanish, Tagalog and Urdu.”

Well, let me ask a question here; Can we use analogies and AI cognitive science to do this?
Now then, if we use Douglas Hofstadter’s concept and theory is that perhaps we should look at “Analogy as the Core of Cognition,” we may have the basis to get this done. In fact, go to YouTube and see the video by that name which is 1:08 but well worth the time.

Okay so, if we use the Douglas’ concept as the foundation to solve this problem, we ought to be able to catch a drug dealer from a Mexican Cartel saying; “We will deliver the Frijolies to the bakers on Friday before noon” and the software would pick up the potential analogous comment, identify it, and flag it? AI can solve this problem right?

Why, because purposeful use of analogies by targets maybe telling us something, especially when seemingly random analogies later correspond to actual events. Once this verbal code is deciphered, it should be rather easy to root out more intelligence, using AI rather than paying 10s of thousands of hours day reviewing these discussions. Perhaps, it really is possible to solve this problem, at least I believe it is.

You can expect the targets to use elaborate schemes, and noticeably nonchalant dialogue to bypass scrutiny, but as they get smarter and trickier, so too will our own artificial intelligence as it learns the tricks of the trade, and what is or isn’t actual intelligence. This plus, voice signature, voice inflection, electronic voice falsehood speech and we ought to be able to win this game.

Perhaps this is why it seems relevant to work harder to develop these technologies, well that’s my personal and professional opinion anyway. Please consider all this and think on it – and yes, I am available for consulting, but you have to load up my Starbucks card to prove you are legitimate first.

Mahjong Is One of the Oldest Games in the World

MaQue, which refers to sparrow, is the original name given for the mahjong game, a trendy game which originated in China. Most southern Chinese vernaculars still use the name MaQue when referring to the game. Nevertheless, in other parts of this rich country, the game is generally referred to as MaJiang.

Involving four key players, the game entails a lot of meticulous calculations, not to mention a concise level of expertise and a discreet strategy. Depending on the different game versions, each player transacts with thirteen to sixteen tiles at a time. The customary Chinese rules of the game have been modified depending on where the game is being played. Today, the game is being played in many different countries across the world.

Regardless of the rules applicable in the different countries, through the game, a player draws one tile while they castoff another. Winning will depend on the draw, which is taking the redundant tile or picking up a new tile. There have been a lot of mythical stories trying to explain the origin of this very popular game. A well-known story states that the game was invented around 500 BC by Confucius, a famous Chinese philosopher at the time. According to this allegory, the philosopher would travel to the different parts of the country teaching people about the game, thus explaining the dominance of the game.

Confucius taught that the story behind the legend was about an isolated lady in the emperor’s palace that used ivory and bamboo to carve the tiles for the game. She would call her three maids once she was done, to come and play the game with her. Later in life, Confucius developed the game. Since he was very fond of birds, as indicated in the myth, the game came to be known as Mahjong, which means a sparrow.

Paradoxically, there is no indication whatsoever of the existence of this game before the nineteenth century. Historians suppose that, the game was founded on “MaDiao”, a typical Chinese game, and that forty paper cards were used to play the game. The paper cards were numbered one to ten, in four different suits alongside four other additional flower cards. This can easily be compared to the Mahjong game played presently in different parts of the world. Mahjong is now considered a classic game by all rights, and can easily be found online. Over the years, many different variations have been created, with each having their own sets of rule

How To Throw a Great Party Using Party Games

Everyone has attended a party that was a dud. If you are the host this can be awful. But there is something to quickly remedy the celebration – Party Games!

Party games rapidly provide visitors with plenty of opportunity to meet other people and they are also fun. I’ve never attended a party where these games were played and I didn’t have a good time. The following few games are my favorite ones to have fun with at a gathering.

Wink ‘Um
This game feels like a detective game. Have your group sit in a circle. With a deck of cards, take out enough cards so that each group member has a card. Make sure that a card is the ace of spades. The person with the ace of spades discreetly winks at the other players. If you are winked at, you say, I’ve been murdered, then toss your card in the middle of the circle. Any dead person is out of the game. The point of the game is to figure out who has the ace of spades. If you think you know, say that you want to guess. If you are wrong, you forfeit and die. If you are right you win.

Who Am I
This is an enjoyable game that helps with communication. Each player writes down a famous person’s name on paper. Then every participant is given one of the papers (that is not their own). Without looking at it, they must affix it to their chest with tape. The other players can see who you are, but you have to guess. You can only ask yes or no questions to the rest of the group. Taking turns you will begin to get an impression of who you are. When you think you know, you may guess. Once you guess the right person, you can help the other players until everybody has guessed. Another version is everybody sits in a circle. The card with the name on it is affixed to the chest. One player at a time may ask a yes or no question. The rest of the group will answer. The first player to guess right wins.

Charades
This activity is a classic. Each player should write down names of TV shows, activities, movies, books etc. these are put into a hat, and each player draws a paper. Once a paper is drawn, the player’s objective is then to perform what is written on their paper, without speaking. The other group members must yell out guesses as the player performs.

Would You Rather Questions
Each person in the group thinks of two difficult choices. They then pose the question by saying would you rather… followed by the two choices. If there are lots of people playing, then everyone should take a turn asking the group a question. Or, if there are too many players to hear everyone’s answer then spin a bottle so that only one player responds a question.

To show you, I have included a selection of would you rather questions to get you started:

• Would you rather butter or whipped cream?
• Would you rather eat a rotten apple with worms or eat blue cheese covered liver?
• Would you rather be on a constant diet or never be able to diet again?
• Would you rather be a vampire or stay human?
• Would you rather die young but be happy or die old but be miserable?
• Would you rather live alone in a dark small hole for a year or be in jail for 20 years?
• Would you rather date Quagmire from Family Guy or date Moe from the Simpsons?

By playing these games your visitors will have an amazing time at your party. They w

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