Educational games for homeschool
Learning
You’ve started your homeschooling journey and you are enjoying teaching your kids. The way they lite up when they learn a concept or get a better understanding of a topic. It brings joy to a mom’s heart to know your child is learning at home while mom is teaching them.
Is it work? Sure, it is, but it is worth it.
Many times, my kids come running into my bedroom, kitchen or wherever I am in the house to let me know how they did on a quiz or test.
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“In our school, the children need to get a high enough grade before we move onto another topic.”
If they didn’t get it the first time, they can do their quiz over. After, they get a better understanding and better grade they are so excited, and they want to come share that with me.
When you have homeschooled for a while. You realize each child has a different learning style and different modalities work better for each one.
Today we are going to talk about different games that can enhance your learning and make it fun as well.
Board Games
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Site Word Bingo
This is a game that replaces numbers with sight words. Each card has different site words. This game motivates children to learn new words and gives them the confidence that can help them in their reading skills.
Scrabble
This game has been around for years. The object of the games is to place tiles down on the board and spell words. Having kids play scrabble helps increase their spelling skills.
Puzzles
They make great options for a variety of learning skills, such as critical thinking skills and problem-solving.
Other Games
Multiplication skills are needed in math. Flashcards are a way to help children memorize their times’ tables.
Multiplication Master
This is an electronic form of flashcards to reinforce multiplication facts. It has 2 levels on it and it is recommended for children 7 and up.
Multiplication Machine
This little game is a manual game designed to teach kids their multiplication skills. The kids just push the buttons to see the answer. This is another fun way for children to memorize math facts. This game also comes in division, addition, and subtraction.
Printable games
There are free online printable games you can download and print for your child.
Digital online games
Education.com is a website that has digital online games as well as free printable worksheets. They also offer a premium service that includes guided lesson and more.
Playing Catch
A simple game of catch can make practicing addition and subtraction or multiplication and division fun and memorable.
- The players get in a circle.
- A math fact is called out such as 4+1 or 2×3.
- Then the ball is randomly thrown to one of the players to answer.
- If the child gets it right, then that child can call out a math problem and throw the ball to the next person.
- If the child doesn’t know the answer. It can be given the correct answer.
Continuing to play the game will bring repetition for the kids and help them to remember the answer.
Something different than just writing down math answers can make learning fun and help skills to stick in the children’s minds.
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Singing
You might ask why singing. I know singing isn’t a game per say, however singing songs about different topics help the children to retain information.
Even as an adult, if I learn information through a song, I tend to remember it better.
Most children really love music and singing, especially young children.
Don’t underestimate how much kids can retain while learning through songs.
Manipulatives
There are many manipulatives that can be used for teaching children.
Play money is a good way to teach children to count money. Children love to play store.
Toy Register
Using a toy register or even a box to pretend to be a register is a lot of fun. Playing pretend store will keep children entertained learning valuable skills they will take with them for life.
Cardboard box with toys
Having what my mother-in-law used to call the feely box is a fun way to teach young children about the sense of touch.
She would have a box with a hole in it big enough for the children to put their hand in it.
The grandkids would have to put their hand in the box and feel for what they wanted.
They would then pull out their mystery toy.
The kids just thought that was the best thing to play.
Your sense of touch teaches temperature, how hard or soft something is. It is a way of navigating our environment by feeling things around us and making it important for sensory perception.
Dice
Using dice can be a great way to teach counting and adding for children.
Roll the dice.
Young children can jump or step to the amount of the number on the dice.
Older kids can add up the amounts on the dice.
This is a fun way to practice math learning without kids knowing that they are indeed learning.
Counting Bears
These little fellas are sure to be a fun crowd-pleaser with ages 3 and up. Multi-color plastic bears that have 3 sizes and 3 weights and has the whole family of bears in them.
The container comes with papas, mamas, and little baby bears.
Young children will enjoy playing with these bears.
They are a fun manipulative for teaching counting, sizes, weights, and colors.
A great way to teach addition and subtraction skills for school-age children.
Math Cubes
Math manipulatives are great for teaching grouping of 10’s.
The set of 100 snaps together, making them great for fine motor skills.
Also good for teaching sorting, counting, colors, and pattern making.
In older children, these math cubes help teach number problems, algebra, and more. Manipulatives are a great way to enforce what you are teaching in your curriculum.
Can be used for children 3 and up.
Plastic ABC’S
Children love plastic ABCs. Put a bag of ABCs on the fridge and encourage the imagination juices.
Kids love grouping letters into their names or other words that they can spell on the fridge.
Playing with ABCs encourages spelling skills that are fun and helps them to retain what they have spelled. They make a great teaching tool.
Matching with Blocks
Take a plastic cup and put a letter of the alphabet on it.
Then have your child find the matching block that coincides with the same letter as on the cup. Then have him or her place it inside of that same cup.
This game teaches matching and recognizing the letters of the alphabet.
Here is a recap
There are many teaching tools, games and manipulatives that can be used to make learning fun and retainable.
There are board games, online games, electronic games, diy games. You can use toys, singing and maybe even just an old cardboard box can do the trick.
Use what you have on hand or add games and tools to your collection.
Many of these games are for kids of all ages.
You know what? They can even be fun for mom or dad too.
Happy Learning