Designed to help children learn friendship skills while having fun. The
framework of the game will teach players how to make friends, how to be a good
friend and how to resolve conflict with peers. The scenario cards
cover basic lessons on fairness, kindness, respect and understanding. The scenarios draw from daily interactions
that take place during school, after-school activities, in the neighborhood,
and at home.
The game plays like classic Go Fish. There are two decks
of 50 cards in each game – one for grades K-2 and the other for grades 3-5. It differs
from classic go fish in that players must answer a question before they can
accept a requested card. Instead of the
usual number and picture cards, the cards have fun pictures of fish and fish names.
For example, a player may ask, “Do you have any Henry Herrings?” If the player receives a Henry Herring card,
the player reads the question on the card aloud and answers it. All questions are open ended. If the player did not have any Henry Herrings,
the player would say, “go fish,” and then the first
player would take a card from the “ocean” (extra cards in the center of the
table). A rules sheet and facilitator
guidelines are included.
Grades: K – 5 Time required: about 20 minutes Players: 2 – 5
Learning Objectives
Players will understand:
1. that in order to have good
friends you must be a good friend;
2. that
fairness, kindness, respect, and understanding are important in the process of
making and keeping friends;
3. how to deal appropriately with
conflict and peer relations; and
4. how to use common strategies
to enhance relationships.
