Wednesday 2 January 2019

Card games galore!

Over the last few years I've heard of this thing called gameschooling... it's such a simple concept.... use games in your schooling, I feel like most homeschoolers already do it!

We like to have fun Friday, although it usually ends up being 
whatever day we need a little break and out come the games!

Here are a few of our favourite card games... I've included a couple of oldies but goodies and a few you need to check out!

Good old fashioned Crib....  we have a crib board stashed away in the house, trailer and truck!

UNO never gets old and is always a good time!


Science Ninjas: Valence card game.... this one is right up my alley... a chemistry card game where you collect elements to build molecules.. beware the acids and bases!!



Sushi Go!.... I like the strategy involved in this one.. it's a quick collect and pass card game, and don't forget adding up the points!  Perfect for the sushi lovers out there... or for those of us that don't know anything about sushi... I now know that wasabi is good, if you like extra points!!


Spiral at Mathgeekmama.com ... I love this game!  Let the kids pick their favourite Lego mini fig as a token and move around the card spiral using all your multiplication skills!


Bring your own Book....  this game changes every time you play it... as the name suggests you bring a book and then find lines to match a wide variety of prompts!   I love to theme it up... or let the kids go wild!  Goober says Calvin and Hobbes comics work best, while Sweet Pea will usually pick up a Rick Riordan book :)


Bears vs Babies... so this is a new addition to our house... Goober loves it!!  He can make an assortment of interesting monsters to defeat a variety of really odd baby armies.... what can I say... it's a hit!  And to be perfectly honest, any game that has a water bear card has already won me over ;)



What are some of your favourite card games?

All about physics....Part II

Here is the rest of our unit......

Part II
Magnets
Electricity

To see Part I follow the link below....
Big Bang
Forces and Motion
Light
Sound
We used Usborne's book What's Physics All About? as a spine...


I love this book also from Usborne, 365 Science Activities many an experiment was taken directly from this book!


We also used Brainpop Junior and Brainpop videos/activities/quizzes.  *Note* Brainpop is a subscription based website.. several DL schools will have a subscription you can access... if not I highly recommend adding it to your homeschooling budget, it is worth every penny!!

I also used a number of printables from TeachersPayTeachers....
Sweet Pea wanted some notebooking elements that I was too lazy to make!

Magnets

We read the corresponding chapter on magnets in What's Physics all About?





Great videos...
Brainpop Jr - Magnets 
Brainpop- Magnetism

We also read this book together.. love the Magic School Bus chapter books;
Amazing Magnetism


Here you can find a lapbook based on this book... we used some of the printables.

More great videos....
Bill Nye the Science Guy- Magnetism
Scishow- Animal Magnetism

This is a fabulous science kit.. lots of great ideas and an easy to follow format for experiments... Magnetic Science.


 There are a billion great magnet projects out there...
 do a quick search and do whatever catches your eye!

Here are a few we enjoyed....
 Playing with our compasses and hiding things in the backyard to create a scavenger hunt...
The kidlets spent entirely too much time playing with the magnets in their science kit....
Find the magnetic iron in your breakfast cereal....


Electricity
We read the corresponding chapter on electricity in What's Physics all About?


 We made a potato battery!
 So fun... we didn't have a led light so we used our fancy volt meter instead :)

Here are some great videos...

Brainpop- Electricity
Electric Circuits
Bill Nye the Science Guy- Electricity
Magic School Bus- Gets Charged
 

Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip

 Our scientist study was two fold.... Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison.


 The kids also love working on projects with Snap Circuits!

 


Hope you enjoyed our foray into physics... sorry it took me so long to post Part II :)