Recommendations for puzzles / games / exercises for Yr 2 children

[Mandy21]

I have a child currently in Year 2, about to go into Year 3, and I want to keep up the reading / writing / mental arithmetic over the summer (I know they're on holiday but just conscious of wanting to hit the ground running in Sept). She scored 3s of all of the Year 2 SATS so she's quite bright.

Doesn't have to be kind of formal Schofield and Simms type work-books (although if you have any recommendations for this type of thing, that would be great too) but anything that you've used that seems to combine learning with games / puzzles etc.

Many thanks

My DD is the same as yours and she loves puzzle books such as the Word Search ones. Some of the variety ones also have Suduko in and puzzles that she has to figure out which word/number sequence fits in the correct boxes which has helped with her reasoning

Proper Monopoly as opposed to childrens' version.
There is a board game called Smath - sort of scrabble with numbers.
Scrabble/Bananagrams
If she likes SuDuko move on to v easy KenKen

Yahtzee also good for practising table and mental maths.

You can get books (sorry can't remember titles of the top of my head) where you have to solve maths puzzles to get on to the next bit.

My DD is the same age/results. Scrabble's great, and I've got a couple of pads of wordsearch/times tables puzzles for 7-10 yr olds that I picked up from The Book People (I think). She mostly need to work on writing so I've treated her to a Moshi Monster's norebook & pen and she's goign to keep a holiday diary.

when I was that age, I really enjoyed Rummikub (used to come in both letter and number versions, no idea if it is even still available!)

we were a massive board-game playing family, though.

take a look at the Happy Puzzle Company - loads of board games/puzzles for all ages - from standard word searches/puzzle books through to lateral thinking games.

Mike's maths has lots of great fun games which encourage maths, mine all love it (i don't think they see it as work, fortunately)..
www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/

They particulalry like this board game he does ( I printed up coloured questions for each age level, so pink for youngest child - 1+2=, blue for middle 2x10, double 15 etc and harder ones for eldest on green paper). They love the specials, which is swap places with leader etc.
www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/times-table-board-game.html

Writing/reading, get new books from library (our have a reading challenge over the summer that gives stickers etc and a medal at the end)... and then write book reviews for each one - the library may even pin the review on a notice board.

She can also write letters/postcards to friends over the summer, who doesn't like getting some mail?

If you have an iPad or iPhone then bubble pop maths is good for doing mental maths sums. itunes.apple.com/gb/app/popmath-basic-math/id295536766?mt=8

We also do a lot of research and fact files on subjects she enjoys - currently Boudica and Romans.

We'll also be baking and using the measuring as an opportunity to learn.

Thanks everyone, really useful tips. I will get looking and silverfrog Rummicub IS still available (am a bit of a rummicub geek )