It’s all fun and games until someone learns something
Gameschooling is a homeschooling style that uses board games and card games to teach. And if you’ve never tried it before, trust me, it can change everything!
The Power of Gameschooling
A Review of KidzType Typing Games
How important is it for your kids to learn touch typing? Well, consider this—the average person types at 38 to 40 words per minute (wpm). Doesn’t sound too shabby, eh?
But we speak in friendly conversation at 110-150 wpm. We can listen at 450 wpm. Hey, I know this is possible because I have a kid whose talking speed is set to that. And, by some scientists’ estimates, we think at the blistering rate of 1000 to 3000 wpm!
Typing at 40 wpm doesn’t sound so fast anymore, does it?
I know how important fast and effortless typing is because I am (was previously) a transcriptionist, who needed to type at the speed that people talk, and (am currently) a writer, who desperately needs to pour the words onto the screen as I think them. So, touch typing is a must-teach subject in our homeschool. I know the benefits of automating this skill, and hunt-and-peck-typists my kids will not be!
Enter KidzType! I was really excited to recently discover this website. This is the year I want to begin typing practice with my third-grader. Let me tell you why she loves it so much (and begs to use it) and why I am so thankful to have found it.
Continue Reading101 Reasons to Make Homeschooling Fun
How to make homeschooling fun must be one of the top questions I’m asked. I can’t even describe the pure beauty of those moments when learning just happens in the midst of family fun or when my children’s play inspires them to make, and explore, and find out. But it is when you know that it’s all going to work out OK and you are doing a great job at this homeschooling thing.
There are so many reasons to incorporate fun, informal learning activities into your homeschool. It can serve to:
- break up the monotony of the everyday schedule,
- spark interest in subjects outside the normal course of study,
- help reluctant learners find joy in learning and build confidence,
- add some educational value to sick days, holiday breaks, or just those days when you’re asking, “Can this count as school?”, and
- provide some direction or inspiration during the deschooling process or if you’re unschooling.
So without further ado, here are a few (or actually 101) of our absolute favorite reasons to make homeschooling fun.
Gift Ideas to Accompany Books that Inspire Real-Life Skills, Adventures, and Character
A great book is one that enriches your life far beyond the time you spend reading it. It comes off the page and becomes the inspiration for action in real-life. It motivates you to learn new skills or try new adventures. It dares you to be a better person than you were before. OR it can simply show you how to more deeply love and treasure things you might have thought ordinary before.
