Homeschool Idea: Trivia Game

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We here at The Academy of Fun have been working on a very exciting project. We thought we’d share this homeschool idea with you!

Leo decided that our homeschoolin’ needed a name. I am now the Headmaster of The Academy of Fun. Do you think he was sending me a message of some sort?? No pressure or anything!

What is the project, you wonder? Well, I first must explain that all members of The Academy of Fun enjoy playing trivia.

We are obsessed with Professor Noggin and Brain Box games. These are two of our current faves. Highly recommend! Ten thumbs up!!

I have mentioned before that Leo is quite creative. He is always working on several projects at once, and he has more creative ideas than even he can keep up with, and he’s quite the mover and the shaker.

I digress. Over the summer, Leo came up with the idea of making our very own trivia game, based on what we learn while homeschoolin’, or not-at-homeschoolin’. I thought this idea was very creative, very us, and had the potential for fun (since I have quite the name to live up to!). We’ve been keeping a word document filled with “fun facts” and this weekend we decided that we had accrued enough fun facts to print and laminate.

We have learned so much already! (Grout warning! It’s filthy. I know, I know.)

We have plans to design an equally fun game box, and by “we” I mean Leo. Once we have plenty of trivia cards, we would like to create a game board and game pieces.

I am extremely proud of this project. Leo thought of the initial idea, he came up with which facts to include, he helped me with cutting and pasting, and has plans for the box design. Talk about child-led learning and project-based schooling! Plus, this game promises to be enjoyable for the whole family, and everyone will be reviewing previously learned information.

This is way more fun than standardized testing, folks!

Maybe we will live up to our name after all! What have you done lately that you are proud of? Share it here!

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The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on – because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.

~ Noam Chomsky

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Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley

Cait is a school psychologist, mom to three amazing children, and an unexpected homeschooler. She loves nature, good books, board games, strong coffee, and dancing in her kitchen. Cait believes homeschooling *can* be almost all fun and games!

Cait co-hosts The Homeschool Sisters Podcast and is co-founder of Raising Poppies, a community for parents of gifted and twice-exceptional children. Cait is also founder of the Family Book Club at My Little Poppies, a fantastic community of book-loving parents and the Gameschool Community at My Little Poppies, a vibrant community of gameschoolers.

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