Preschool

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 […]

Dexterity games are great for motor skills but are also a great way for kids to spend time with older family members like grandparents! Not all grandparents want to learn a new strategy game, but they’re almost always up for something like Crazy Tower.     Crazy Tower is a dexterity/building game with a crazy […]

One of the reasons we use so many games for math instruction is that games often require deductive and inductive reasoning, or thinking forwards and backwards about a problem.   Some games, like Wilson & SHEP, feature these deductive reasoning skills but at the level of younger children. Six years old, in this case! Games […]

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 […]

One of life’s greatest pleasures is playing legitimately fun games with children, especially 4/5 year olds. They are so easily delighted, and playing this game is especially delightful! Dragomino is  a My First Kingdomino game so it’s similar but much simpler as far as new domino placement and also scoring. It’s a quick game (about […]