Mohr Adventures in World Schooling

While we have been playing sight words Bingo for quite some time, we recently decided to try out a few more reading inspired games.  They are perfect for early readers, but with a few adjustments I was able to play them with our younger son too. Slam Ships For this game, you need one "reader" to call out words, while the other players man little suction cup space ships.  The words are all on circles which have different colors based on reading level.  Rather than have it be a race or a competition, we take turns because both of my kids are at different reading levels.  They like to have words from all the levels out at once.  For my 6 year old, I call out a sight word and have her look for it without too many hints.  We may practice sounding words out to help identify the word.  I usually use the word in a sentence too, although I try to prevent setting out homophones.  For my son, I read the word and then list the color it is on and give hints ab...

I love board games.  As a kid, I often set up board games to play by myself and I still do this sometimes today.  But now that I have kids, I can share games with them.  And board games are great for teaching so many different skills.  For those that I tired of Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders, I highly recommend games by Peaceable Kingdom.  We have a few. Hoot Owl Hoot This game is designed for ages 4 and up and for 2-4 players.  It is a nice, short, cooperative game.  I love cooperative games in general, but its great for younger players to encourage teamwork.  The goal of the game is to move all the owls (you can choose the challenge level, but my kids love all 6) from the start into the nest before the sun rises.  Players are allowed to talk and collaborate to create strategies.  Each player will have three cards.  They can choose whichever card they would like to play, unless they drew a sun card, in which case they have to...