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

June 14, 2021 Anitra Smith Podcast Episodes, 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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