For our English lesson today we played Scrabble. I quizzed my kids on the parts of speech on the word that was played and whoever got it right, the other person had to tell me why. For example, I played the word “three”. My oldest said it was an adjective and my youngest said it […]
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There are days when the kids just don’t feel like doing school. And that’s totally okay! We play games instead and they truly don’t believe it’s school work, but it totally is!•Here’s a brief overview of the games for today’s post:•Sequence Numbers– this is an awesome game for addition and subtraction facts. Each player is
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Catan, Jr. is a game about strategy. You have to build ships and lairs in an alternating fashion and who ever builds all 15 pieces first, wins the game. The game has different resources (5) to trade instead of cash, and you have to be strategic because building ships and lairs require different sets of
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Here’s a fun way to learn greater and less than math problems using jumbo playing cards. We took out the face cards and used Ace through 10. We let the Ace card represent 1, and 10 is used as a 10, or when combined with, for example 5, it would be 105. I split the
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Gameschooling: Valence 
How to play Valence– I initially bought this game for my oldest since he wants to learn about chemistry. This is such an amazing game for us all though. Each player is handed 6 element cards and you have to add up any card to equal zero. So this is great
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Prime Climb 
So today is technically an “off” day of home school for us but the games we are playing have everything to do with learning and I count it as school (but my kids don’t 
). How to play Prime Climb– this is one of our favorite games to play. It is straightforward
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Games we played this week are Professor Noggin-The Wonders of Science, Go Fish- Ancient Egypt, Connect 4, and 5 Second Rule. Here’s a little bit of information about each game: 
Professor Noggin- Wonders of Science is a really amazing and fun way to learn about so many topics in science. Some of the topics
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Gameschooling: It is basically learning through playing games. Can you really learn through playing games? YES! But, it depends on the quality of the game. When choosing games, I like to look for ones that are entertaining but also have value to it. I love educational games
such as prime climb and sequence, games that encourage
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