Age: 4+ Players: 1+ Playing Time: 20 Minutes Category: Storytelling Gameschool Area: Language Arts Price: $30 Publisher: SCS Direct “I would rather be the children’s story-teller than the queen’s favorite or the king’s counsellor.” –Kate Douglas Wiggin– “There is no better place in all the world for telling a story than in the home, … Read more
Age: 8+ Players: 1-4 Playing Time: 20 Minutes Category: Card Gameschool Area: Geography, Art Price: $22 Publisher: Pencil First Games Games are inspiration. I use them to help inspire my kids to develop new interests, learn new things, ask questions, be curious, think, collaborate, strategize, and reason. Games are also a source of beauty … Read more
Age: All Players: All Playing Time: Endless Category: Card Gameschool Area: Art, Drawing Price: $20 Publisher: Createures One of the reasons I wanted to educate my children at home was to give them more opportunities to learn, practice, experience, and love the arts. My own arts education was severely lacking – I took … Read more
Age: 7+ Players: 2+ Playing Time: 30 Minutes Category: Card Gameschool Area: Geography Price: $35 Publisher: Byron’s Games We love card games and we love geography, so Continent Race has been a big hit at our house. The game was created by a little boy during an extended hospital stay – talk about resiliency, … Read more
Photosynthesis is a beautiful game by BlueOrange Games. BEAUTIFUL. It’s one of my favorite new games of the year. I LOVE the tree theme, play is so unique, and the design is gorgeous. We have many games from BlueOrange and they are all so unique. I love a game that has a strong theme, especially … Read more
Meet MindBlock, brain game extraordinaire, AND made from wood! I LOVE wooden toys, games, serving dishes, plant pots…so so beautiful. I’m from a tiny logging town in Southern Oregon so wood is just in my blood and I love games with wooden components! ANYWAY… We play math games at least one day a week instead … Read more
If you’ve been here long, you’ll know that our family loves board games, and one of my favorite homeschool tricks is to pick a board game and build a unit around it. This week we took a trip through the solar system and learned all about the planets, made paper mache models of most of … Read more
This year we started studying logic using The Fallacy Detective book and we have complemented our book study with this fun Thinkfun game, Dog Crimes. Coincidentally, they are both dog themed! We’ve had a lot of fun with both resources and have learned to recognize fallacies and some predictable logical patterns. It’s been a new … Read more
We had the pleasure of trying out another fantastic Gamewright game – this time we played Qwixx. There are two versions – dice and cards. The dice game sounds super fun, but we played the card game and it was easy to learn but fun and challenging for all my kids (ages 13, 11, 8, … Read more
My heart has been changing about math over the last year or so. I’ve been a curriculum gal from the beginning (Saxon, yeah!) and we have stuck pretty much to a lesson a day since we started homeschooling 7 years ago. But you live and learn, right?!? Some of my kids are not math lovers, … Read more