Games

There's a game craze going on in the online homeschooling world right now. By that I mean that we're all talking about games. That makes sense since many of us are experiencing winter and much (though not all) time often spent on exploring outside is now spent exploring our living rooms. Insert games, though, and the living room can be a fun activity for the whole familiy.

Every Friday night we enjoy family game night, eating a picnic-style dinner on the floor and playing a game together (We also have several afternoons that are Calvin and mom game afternoons, yadda yadda). We're still entering the real game age, but our tastes are developing and we've put together a top ten list (in no particular order) to share with our wider online community. That means you.

• Camp (this is number one with all of us)

• Go Fish

• Hi Ho Cherry-O

• Monopoly

• Memory

• Guess Who

• Connect Four

• Dominos

• Zingo

It should be noted that with this list of our "top ten" games (I know there's only nine) I have exhausted our game list. Jon and I have our own repertoir of games, like trivial pursuit, scrabble, and Boggle, that we play after Calvin goes to bed, and that a few of our "adult" games (all clean) could be adjusted to accomodate Calvin, like Facts in Five (one of our favorites). And there are a couple of games that we used to enjoy that Calvin has since outgrown, like Snail's Pace Race and Good Night Moon. For the most part, however, this is the extent of our gaming experience. Not for long, though. Thanks to other homeschooler's sites, like Ordinary Life Magic, to which I Have linked this list, I am now salivating to add a number of other games to our collection, like The Amazing Mammoth Hunt, Blokus Duo (for two), and Lost Cities (although that might be for a couple of years from now).

And thank you to all the other homeschooling moms out there who have shared their gaming preferences with us so we'd know where to go from here.