Tag Archives: gameschooling

Fun “Traveling” With Just a Book: Especially for Homeschooling Mamas and their Children, This Totally Counts as Your Language Arts and Geography Curriculum, and It’s So Fun and Easy!!!

Posted on February 21, 2025 by treeoflifemama

Calling all homeschooling mamas, especially if you feel burned out!!! (Anyone else can read this too of course. :-)) It’s that time of year when homeschooling can feel really hard. At least in a lot of North America, the skies … Continue reading →

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Best Deduction Board Games

Posted on September 27, 2024 by treeoflifemama

Deduction games are some of my favorites! I’m sooo excited that the Dice Tower, my favorite YouTube channel about board games, came out with this fun video (scroll down to see it). The video features three of the DT peeps, … Continue reading →

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Three Lessons Board Games Teach Us That School Doesn’t

Posted on February 24, 2024 by treeoflifemama

I love using board games for schooling. I use them at home with my own children and at my homeschool co-op, as shown above. In that photo I am using Concept Kids: Animals. That’s one of my favorite games to … Continue reading →

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Tree of Life Mama’s Game of the Week is Concept Kids: Animals

Posted on August 2, 2023 by treeoflifemama

Tree of Life Mama’s game of the week is Concept for Kids: Animals. I was blessed to find the above game at a thrift store a few weeks ago and I’m so glad I did! This is the Jr. version … Continue reading →

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4/19/23 Tree of Life Mama’s Game of the Week: Just One

Posted on April 19, 2023 by treeoflifemama

My game of the week is Just One by Repos. This game is soooo simple, yet soooo fun! We played it with my parents last fall at a family vacation in the mountains. I’ve played it with other different groups … Continue reading →

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Tree of Life Mama’s Game of the Week: Funglish

Posted on February 22, 2023 by treeoflifemama

Here’s a fun game that involves word association, logic, clues, and deductive thinking. I picked this up for $2 at the thrift store. It was definitely worth the 2 bucks. It is like Charades with words. You get a ton … Continue reading →

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Games We’ve Played Lately October 2022

Posted on October 12, 2022 by treeoflifemama

Whew! Our new homeschool year is back in full force, including gameschooling every day. I had to adjust my expectations of how many games I could play over the summer. My goal was to keep up the #abookandagameaday challenge, but … Continue reading →

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1/21/22 Tree of Life Mama’s Game of the Week: Snake Oil

Posted on January 21, 2022 by treeoflifemama

Having four kiddos out of the nest often makes me melancholy, wishing I could go back in time. If I could do it all over again I would play more games, sing more songs, and tell more stories for my … Continue reading →

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8/3/21 Tree of Life Mama’s Game of the Week: Trekking the National Parks

Posted on August 7, 2021 by treeoflifemama

So I heard about this game from a girlfriend and also from this documentary, Game Master. (You see the game’s inventor, Charlie Binks, and his parents in it. It’s fun to hear the story of how it came to be. … Continue reading →

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3/26/21 Fun Friday Tree of Life Mama’s Game of the Week: Outfoxed!

Posted on March 26, 2021 by treeoflifemama

We played this game this past week in our gameschooling to count for some math, since it’s about logic. It isn’t a fast moving game like some of the other Gamewright games, like Slamwich. My two youngest absolutely love that … Continue reading →

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