Advantages: supports early reading skills Disadvantages: none
I discovered lotto can be traced back to the year 1530 a lottery game" Lo Giuco de Lotto"originated in Italy. The game still played every Saturday. Now a form of this game is played in many countries. One form is often called bingo. Basically lotto is a game where a group of people play together each has a card with numbers or pictures on, there is a person who acts as caller and that person calls out a number and the person who has that number on his card covers it up and the first person to get all the numbers on his card is the winner.
The lotto game I am going to talk about is the farmyard tales picture lotto made by Usbourne toys. The illustrations by Stephen Cartwright.
I have played with many lotto sets with children during my working life and the Usbourne set is one we have at school.
This set costs £6.99p. You can buy ...
mumsymary 14.09.2006 (06.01.2007)
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