School of Rock

Over the Christmas break, we met with one of my mom's friends. She's an older woman (by that, I mean older than my mom)--about seventy-five--and she taught us a game she played when she was a little girl. The kids loved it, so I thought I'd pass it along to those of you who have kids and don't know it.

"School of Rock" (or "Rock School")

One person is the leader. The rest sit on the bottommost step of a flight of stairs. that step is designated "kindergarten."

The leader hides a rock in one hand and presents it to the first child. That child chooses a hand. If the guess is correct, the child moves up one step--to "first grade." If the guess is incorrect, play passes to the next child.

The first child to the top step "graduates." Hurrah!

How's that for sounding like Parker Brothers for a very simple game?

In any case, our kids loved it. They wanted to play it for hours.

Try it out! Let's have a nationwide revival of "School of Rock."

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p.s. There's a 2003 movie 2003 movie entitled School of Rock that has nothing to do with this game--though it was a fairly funny movie that starred Jack Black.

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