The second week of board game club saw us try out a series of tile games, a particularly enjoyable week for the visual learners in the class who readily took to the spatial patterning in games like Kingdomino.

A recap of week 1 of Level-Up Board Game Club, including a sneak peak at the first bit of our game design project and an overview of the games we tried out.

December has inaugurated a cold snap in the Bay Area, perfect to stay inside for a spell and play some games. Similarly, the new month has ushered in the second trimester at school, which means that Board Game Club gets underway this week. Nine students are enrolled in the after school class: six second graders (five of whom are in my class), two third graders from the room next door, and one seventh grader who I really hope decides to stick it out with all the youngins,' per

This week, sign ups went out for Winter enrichment classes: crunch time to see if there is enough interest for the club to launch. I only need 7 students to sign up, but there's a lot of competition for students' attention.

A scope and sequence for the first few weeks of the club, including weekly topics, discussion and reflection prompts, and some ideas for games.

Although I told myself that I wasn’t going to put too much on my plate my first year in a new gig, I am going to start up an after-school board game club. I will use this blog to continue to share the progress of Level-Up Board Game Club, and some thoughts and practices on teaching games to younger gamers. Hopefully this will be a useful resource if you are trying to get something like this started at your school.