We were introduced to Gameschooling through our Homeschool community on Instagram! And  it is something that feels second nature to us because my daughter LOVES games. We joke that her love language is playing games!   Two subjects that we “exclusively” use games for are: Spelling and Grammar   How we teach SPELLING with games: Our favorite game to use for 1st grade was BOGGLE JR. We intend to start using BOGGLE soon, but right now we are working on crossing off all the words in BOGGLE JR! (We are actually creating some extra cards to use in BOGGLE JR for 3 and 4 letter words.)   We would recommend…

I recently wrote about our Kindergarten and 2nd Grade Schedules for next year, and realized I haven’t written much about what my kids have done in this past year!   This was Will’s last year of Preschool, and so he focused mainly on the Alphabet and beginning numbers. This was Ellie’s 1st grade year, and she focused a lot on reading and writing!   Here are the materials we have used this past year. (Scroll down to see how we keep an online Homeschool Journal!)   PreK and 1st Grade Materials List:   English: 1st Grade Language Arts: Reading and Writing Comprehension Spelling and Vocabulary Textbook, K-12 (Used sparingly) Nature…