New Homeschool Games

We have a tradition of spending the first day of homeschool exploring the new books and board games that we will use for the year. While we have lots of board games already and I will be buying some new ones, these are the ones I got to kick off the school year! 

Also, I would argue that most games are educational, these I just bought specifically for school and include some more "academic" games.

Note: my kiddo is 6 but doing 2nd grade work, so I have a range of games.

ADSUMUDI Fun Ones: 

This is a math card game. There is a number in the center of an octagonal card, with other numbers all around. Then you can use addition and subtractions with two, three, four or five of those outside numbers to reach the number in the middle. The more numbers you use, the harder it is. There are a few other levels of this game you can buy, depending on the skill level of your students.

Jump 3: 

This is a card game based on adding and subtracting 3. Since we're in the pre-multiplication stage, I thought it would be a good one. They also have Jump 1, Jump 2, Jump 4 and Jump 5

Lucky Dog:

This game involves matching the dice various task cards. Some involve some math and dice games often involve probabilities.

Ultimatch:

I think this is the one I am most excited about. It is not actually a kids game or a "gameschool" game. It is a cooperative card game where you are trying to eliminate cards from a pyramid. You can match a trait or use addition and subtraction to match the number. The cooperative nature will help us work together on a game that would probably be too hard for him on his own.

Hapy Families:

This is an Egyptian themed game that also involves pulling cards from a pyramid. It is supposed to play similarly to Go Fish. I got it to go with our Ancient Egypt history unit.

Miss Bernard is a Wild Card!:

This is a language arts game based on the book series My Weird School. My son doesn't actually read the books, but this looked like a cute game about rhyming and parts of speech. We do not own many language arts games, so I thought it would add good variety to our games.

Number Blocks Puzzle Solver:

Now this game I actually got for my 2 year old, hoping she would work on it at the table while I work with my son on schoolwork. I included it here, because both of them LOVE Numberblocks and he likes puzzly games, so I think he will play with it a lot too.

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