We’ve had lots of great feedback for our games for encouraging writing post – so much so that I was offered the chance to review a game – and give a copy away to one of you wonderful homeschooling families! Please visit our new review blog, Just a Little Something, to enter this contest and read the review.
Please note: This post was moved to our new giveaway/review blog close to the time that it was due to be closed for more entries. Because of this, most of the comments entering are still here at The Homeschool Classroom on this post.
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PisecoMom chats about homeschooling her kids using a “curriculum” that’s heavy in board games – over at Mind Games.
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What a wonderful game – add me to the giveaway list! We've been homeschooling 5 years, and you should do a review of Snorta – it's a lot of fun!
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Sounds like a very cool game! I think it might even work for my opposed-to-boardgames girl!
We're starting our 7th year of homeschooling next week and I still feel like a rookie. I'd love to read anything about planning & organization as well as science…I'm not looking forward to science this year…
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I am really excited about that game! I find grammar such a painful subject for my kids that this might be just what we needed!
One game that we love is Wildcraft, by Learning herbs; http://www.learningherbs.com/wildcraft.html It is Gorgeous! My boys have learned so much about plants and their uses. They have shown it to anybody who even talks about flowers. It is a bit pricey, but if you sign up for the newsletter, you will be notified if it comes on special.
Thanks and I hope that helps!
Erin
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My son is 5, so about 5 years. Formally since he turned 3. This week, we just love the game Somebody!
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Awesome! Thank you for the giveaway. =)
We're beginning our 4th year of homeschooling. WOW!!! Fourth year! My goodness! I had to count twice to make sure. I still feel like a beginner. =D
Games my high schooler enjoys: apples to apples, video games. *sigh*. =D
Games my preschooler enjoys: simple card games, memory, matching games, sorry, battleship, candyland…pretty much anything where he interacts with his parents. =D
A topic I'd love for you to cover is something along the lines of "relax and enjoy the ride, you're doing better than you know and you're not ruining your children's lives." =D
Another topic I'd be very much interested in is the dreaded socialization one, but in a positive way. I'm homeschooling just the preschooler at the moment, and I know he gets lonely from time to time. He definitely needs more interaction with children his age – some ideas on that would be very useful. =)
Thank you so much.
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We are starting our fifth year next week.
A favorite game around here is scrabble.
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This games sounds great! I'm a grammar lover!=) I know weird.
This is my 2nd year homeschooling. My son is in 1st grade.
We love the game Skip-bo. It really helped my son learn to count to 12 when he was in preschool.
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We are starting our 9th year of homeschooling. I have a 9th grader, a 4th grader, and a K. We love Apples to Apples, Scrabble, the best Math game we have found is Muggins.
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Just started year #2.
I would love to hear what other families do about encouraging students to manage their time efficiently. It's tougher when there's no bells dictating a schedule, but a very valuable skill I want my kids to master.
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We have been homeschooling for three years now. My soon to be 7 year old would love this game. She too is not yet old enough for scrabble or boggle but loves to put sentences together. I would love to see more science themes. We love science. contact at http://www.tundrahome.blogspot.com
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What a cool game!
We are on to our 2nd "official" year of homeschooling- 2nd and 4th grade. I only wish we had started from the very beginning!
We LOVE games! Among our favorites (right now anyway!) are: Carcassone, Balderdash, Apples to Apples,Phase 10!
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This game looks great! We're beginning our second year homeschooling, and are moving from a boxed curriculum to a more eclectic approach. I'm a little nervous, but VERY excited!
We love to play 12 dot dominoes – especially chickenfoot!
ivanslove@gmail.com
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This looks like a great game!
This is our 19th year of HSing. We have graduated to students and have a 8th, 3rd, & 1st grader this year.
One of our favorite games is Zooreka.
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We've been formally homeschooling for around seven years.
My preschool children like CooCoo The Rocking clown.
My learning to read child likes Starfall Speedway.
The older children enjoy such games as Sorry, Bohnanza and Monza.
And my oldest (eleven) has made her father very happy by wanting to play Battletech with him!
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We've been homeschooling for 7 years now. My boys love to play: dominos, card games, Battleship, Guess Who? and we'd love to try the word game!
Tiffany allboytxmom@yahoo.com
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This is our first year homeschooling and so far it's going great! My DD's favorite game is cranium cariboo.
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What an awesome game. We are in the process right now of teaching sentence structure and would love the opportunity to win this game. We love to use games in schooling as much as we can. Our favorite right now is Life and a USA Map game Which Way USA. We have started our 6th year of homeschooling. Thanks for entering me
lovetolearn (at) bresnan (dot) net
Lynn
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This looks very nice. We'd love to try it. We are on our 2nd year homeschooling, and are excited about a new start. We love the game Wildcraft from Herb Mentor. It is easy for the kids to comprehend the inter workings of the game, and they get so excited learning more about how God has provided so much for us in His creation. My four year old drags it out at least once a week to see the pictures of herbs and match them with what they can be used for. It is a great science activity.
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How cool!
This is our 2nd year homeschooling.
I have a son who is very dependent on me being right next to him while he does his work, even though he knows the work. How can I foster independence and self confidence in him?
my email is jmdrew@cox.net.
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What a great game! I would love this for my son who has such difficulty with grammar. It would make practicing it fun. I'd love some other tips on ways to make grammar fun! Some good resources of games, websites, books. I'm looking for as many fun ways as possible to learn and practice Lang. Arts with him.
We have 3 kids and have been homeschooling for 8 years now.
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This is our second year homeschooling. We'd love to win this game! We like Cranuim, Silly sentences, apples to apples, and hangman!
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This game sounds wonderful! I have been researching grammar games but had not seen this one until now.
We have been HSing for 5yrs and it's flying by!
We love playing games, Scrabble, Bannana Grams, Card Games(We just learned Canasta – great game!)and Hangman. I like to see reviews of fun learning ideas games or activities for 5th grade and up. I have a very wiggly learner!
my email is – easnave@yahoo.com
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Wow, just found this site, and already I love it. This is my first year of homeschooling and already my games shelf is busting at the seems. We love Sequence for Kids, but there are several other versions of sequence for many different ages.
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