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Hop, hopscotch!
The meerkat drew a chalk hopscotch at the playground! Tap the squares, one after another, to make it hop. It can't step on the square with the pebble.
Meerkat Playground
Educational games for kids ages 2 to 6
In the little playground: hopscotch, statues, pick-up sticks and jacks, games of yesterday and today.
- games
- 14
- years old
- 2 to 6
- BNCC goals
- 15
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What children learn here
Every game follows a goal from Brazil’s BNCC, with its equivalent in Head Start ELOF, Common Core and the EYFS. Tap a code to see every game that works on the same goal.
Body, gestures and movement
- EI03CG02Control their own body in play and games5 gamesHead Start ELOF P-PMP 1, P-PMP 2 · EYFS PD-GM
- EI03CG05Coordinate hands and fingers in drawing, cutting and fitting pieces4 gamesHead Start ELOF P-PMP 3 · EYFS PD-FM
- EI03CG01Use the body to show feelings and emotions in play, dance and theater2 gamesHead Start ELOF P-SE 6, P-ATL 13 · EYFS EAD-BIE
- EI02CG03Jump, run and dance following directions1 gameHead Start ELOF P-PMP 1 · EYFS PD-GM
- EI03CG03Create movements and rhythms in play and dance1 gameHead Start ELOF P-PMP 1, P-ATL 12 · EYFS PD-GM, EAD-BIE
Spaces, time, quantities and relationships
- EF01MA08Solve problems of putting together and adding to4 gamesHead Start ELOF P-MATH 6 · Common Core K.OA.A.1, K.OA.A.2 · EYFS M-NUM
- EF01MA06Solve adding and subtracting problems with basic facts2 gamesHead Start ELOF P-MATH 6 · Common Core K.OA.A.2, K.OA.A.5 · EYFS M-NUM
- EF01MA01Use numbers to count and to say order: first, second, third1 gameHead Start ELOF P-MATH 1 · Common Core K.CC.A.1 · EYFS M-NUM
- EF01MA05Compare numbers using the number line1 gameHead Start ELOF P-MATH 4 · Common Core K.CC.C.7 · EYFS M-PAT
- EI02ET07Count objects out loud in everyday play1 gameHead Start ELOF P-MATH 1, P-MATH 2 · Common Core K.CC.A.1, K.CC.B.4 · EYFS M-NUM
- EI03ET05Group objects and pictures by color, shape and likeness1 gameHead Start ELOF P-SCI 3, P-MATH 9 · Common Core K.MD.B.3
- EI03ET07Match numbers to amounts and count to ten1 gameHead Start ELOF P-MATH 1, P-MATH 2, P-MATH 3, P-MATH 5 · Common Core K.CC.A.1, K.CC.B.4, K.CC.B.5 · EYFS M-NUM
Me, others and us
Lines, sounds, colors and shapes
Themes in this region:Numbers and countingColors, shapes and patternsSounds and musicBody and coordinationFeelings and friendship
The 14 games of Meerkat Playground
2 and 3 year olds
To get started: few options, big pictures and the teacher’s voice.
4 and 5 year olds
More pieces that look alike, asking for attention and memory.
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Freeze!
Let's play freeze dance! Tap Start. While the music plays, tap Dance to make the animal dance. When the music stops, freeze like a statue and don't tap anything!
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Top stick
Pick-up sticks is a game for steady hands! The sticks fell on top of each other. First tap the one on top, the one with nothing on top of it.
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There and back
In real hopscotch you go there and back! Hop to the end without stepping on the pebble, turn around and come back. On the square before the pebble, tap it to pick it up and keep hopping.
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Sticks of one color
Now the meerkat wants only the sticks of one color! Find all of that color in the pile and pick them up. If a stick of another color is on top, pick that one up first.
5 and 6 year olds
Bigger challenges and the party that reviews everything the child learned.
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Animal freeze
Now the statue has a feeling! When the music stops, listen to the teacher: happy statue, sad, sleepy... Tap the right face so the statue looks that way, without tapping Dance.
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Snail hopscotch
This hopscotch is curled up like a snail shell, a very old game! The numbers go around and around up to the sky. Listen carefully to how to hop in each round.
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Stick points
In pick-up sticks each color is worth points: yellow is worth one, green is worth two, blue is worth five and red is worth ten. Pick up the right sticks to make the points we ask for, without going over!
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Game rules
Every game has rules! When the drum plays, dance. When the bell rings, freeze. The rattle is there to trick you: it doesn't change anything, keep doing what you were doing. In the last rounds the rule flips around!
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Count and hop
The meerkat doesn't start from the ground: it's already on a square! Listen to how many squares it hops forward or backward and hop one at a time, counting.
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Jacks
Jacks is a game from grandma and grandpa's time! There are four little beanbags on the ground and a pebble in your hand. Toss the pebble up, grab the beanbags we ask for and catch the pebble before it falls.
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Playground party
Region party
The meerkat called the gang to the game party at the playground! Let's remember hopscotch, freeze dance, pick-up sticks and jacks.
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Party hopscotch
Region party
At the party there's every kind of hopscotch: with a pebble, there and back, on the snail and counting the hops!
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Party sticks
Region party
Pick-up sticks at the party: pick them all up without moving the others, only the ones of one color, or make the points we ask for!
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