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Roll and climb your way to the Himalayan summit in this pencil and paper competition of strategy and good fortune! Trek12, an exciting roll & write adventure, is a 15-30 minute experience for any number of players ages 8+, which makes it an excellent educational family or party game! Players can choose from two different […]

Happy children are what I LOVE to see, and playing lots of games means I get to see these smiling faces all the time and especially lately with this magnetic sudoku game from Learning Resources. It checks all the boxes for young gamers – the pieces are magnetic so they don’t slide around. This is […]

Many moms I’ve talked to are resistant to the idea of gameschooling because they don’t like to play games. Or so they think…   Today’s games are not like the games of our childhood. They’re clever, beautifully designed, and companies like Blue Orange have taken classic games like memory and spruced them up a bit […]

It’s great to find a science resource that kids enjoy but that can also be used in conjunction with a variety of different topics throughout the year. Earth science is such a broad topic, I actually use this particular Professor Noggin trivia box (which we always love!) to narrow down such a broad topic. It’s […]

  We’ve covered quite a few science topics this year and Professor Noggin trivia boxes have been one big reason why! It’s really easy to create a science unit with books, art projects, videos, games, and some trivia to pull it all together. We recently studied Ocean life and Countries of the World in this […]

Riding the subway/metro/tube is a real-life strategy game for beginners and country folks, but Metro X is a “Rail & Write” game with a subway theme that is way less stressful and just as fun! (I love traveling to big cities and riding the subway, but it takes some focus! We always have at least […]

Logic games are really popular in our family. We have several single-player logic games, which we all love. We use them for math work and my kids enjoy playing them independently. We do love single player logic games, but THIS logic game is extra special and awesome because it is a multi-player logic game, the […]