248 – Gameschooling (part 1) – The Family Gamers Podcast

Have you read Anitra’s series on gameschooling? Let’s revisit some of the games that worked well for us this year.

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What We’ve Been Playing

• Via Magica (review)
• Mass Transit
• The Game: Face to Face
• Block Ness (review)
• Hammer Time
• Robots Ate Our Pizza
• Ubongo 3D
• Space Explorers
• Mega Mouth
• Quatorze

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SNAP Review – Block Ness

Can you win control of the lake? Anitra and Asher review this 3 dimensional area control game. Check our website for the transcript and video.

Our Year in Gameschooling

What is gameschooling? Using board games as a learning tool, especially in a homeschool context.

Why gameschool? It helps escape from the mundane.

What surprised us the most? That it didn’t help a ton with math practice & history. But using games to reinforce science concepts worked amazingly well.

What did we like the most? Playing games reduced the “distance” in the teacher-student relationship.

Find out more about the games we used for math and English language arts: Gameschool for the Boring Parts.

Much Ado About Baseball

Andrew read a eARC of Rajani LaRocca’s new book and gives us his quick review.

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