Carschooling » games

Eat & Speak Your Veggies

chameleon — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:00:49 +0000

A carscholar mom and her carschoolers have learned a lot of foreign language words through food. They look for billboards and signs that have different kinds of foods and then say the name of the fruit, vegetable, or dairy product in the foreign language they are studying. Whenever they get stuck on a particular word, [...]

Car-tuning

chameleon — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:00:16 +0000

A carschooling mom in Nebraska said that on a field trip with another family they were introduced to a game called “Name That Car Tune.” Each player had to sing a line from a song that had words pertaining to cars in them. Some examples are car, ride, road, highway, street, and Mustang. The first [...]

Two Bit Geography

chameleon — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:00:13 +0000

One carschooling family uses out-of-state license plates and the U.S. Mint’s introduction of individual state quarters to help them with an informal study of United States geography. While riding in the car, they enjoy searching through pocket change for the new state quarters. If they find one, they use the Official United States Mint 50 [...]

Decade or Dare?

chameleon — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:00:39 +0000

A carschooling family (with three kids ages 9 to 16) changed the old Truth or Dare game into a history challenge. To play, first think of a list of silly consequences; when someone loses the challenge they must do one of the several preselected penalties: for example, singing a difficult song, stating the multiplication facts [...]

The Thing is the Thing

chameleon — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:00:17 +0000

This is a fun activity to stimulate storytelling. Give each player an object to hold (a purse, doll, whistle, cookie, tissue, etc). The first player begins to make up and tell a story that includes the object that player is holding. At any time the player may choose another player to continue the story, and [...]

100 Bottles of Juice on the Wall

chameleon — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:00:03 +0000

A teacher in Santa Cruz, California, came up with this way to help her own kids – ages 5 & 8 – do mental math with addition and subtraction. She revamped the old song “100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” in this way:

5 bottles of juice on the wall

5 bottles of juice

You go to [...]

20 Questions

chameleon — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:00:02 +0000

A truly classic game, 20 Questions can be played by all ages. One person thinks of an object that the other players must guess. The players get to ask 20 questions (yes or no answers only) to figure out the correct answer. To focus on science, have your carschoolers exclusively pick plants, animals, or minerals. [...]

Road Sign Harvest Time

chameleon — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:00:34 +0000

This is a cooperative learning game where all players are on the same team. Designate one person to be the Scorekeeper.

Pretend that you own a family farm and as you begin your car trip it’s harvest time. The fruits and vegetables on your farm must be harvested before the first frost of fall arrives (at [...]

Carschooling Physical Education and Health: Car Dancing!

maria — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:15:15 +0000

Just because you are sitting down doesn’t mean you can’t dance. You can get the exercise you need to help tone the body, strengthen muscles, and improve cardiovascular health by “car dancing.”

Simply turn on your favorite music and start by tapping your toes and/or fingers to the beat of the music. Use the room you [...]

Carschooling Foreign Languages: Global Language

maria — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:19:18 +0000

A carschool mom in Virginia keeps an inflatable globe in the car, and her children use it to point to a country and challenge each other to say “hello” in the language of that country.

She said, “Initially, they didn’t know many languages. We found a site on the Internet called ‘Say Hello to the World’ [...]