It was a light day at BJM today during second choice. Only one student and another volunteer were left in the library and there was no Mandarin lesson scheduled for today. I offered to play Uno with him, which proved to be quite the experience.
In our group game, it was tough to be serious during the game-play and watch the student’s facial expressions when he kept drawing cards. Additionally, he kept making piles of cards, but the other volunteer and I could not figure out what the piles signified until he began to file on “skip turn” and “reverse” cards. For a second-grader, he was quite competitive and tried to trick us with rules he knew of. Uno has different rules and game-plays based on who you talk to, but some rules are more well-known than others. In the end, the student played his piles of cards very well and strategically and showed both the other volunteer and myself the numerous ways the game could be played.