International Games Month @ Your Library

For the 14th consecutive year we are celebrating IGM@YL here in the School Library in November. Join with us for an amazing month of board games, table games, card games, and other live, in person games. Learn more about the amazing educational power of games. Most importantly, experience the joy of playing games here in the school library!

Kids Play Games

November is International Games Month @ Your Library. Classes have been invited down to the School Library to enjoy our selection of board games, card games, party games and other live and in-person games.


Thanks to Mr. Birnbaum for bringing his E.L.L. classes down. Games are a great way for these students to develop their language skills. More importantly, everyone was having fun.

This week at the School Library


International Games Month @ Your Library takes top billing this week as the School Library hosts over 25 different classes for a celebration of games! Board games, tabletop games, card games, party games and all sorts of games will be happening Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.



On Wednesday the School Library also hosts the district DELF exam for French language students. As such we will be closed to all drop-in students for the entire day on Wednesday.

Games Hall of Fame

How many of these games from GAMES Magazine’s Hall of Fame have you played? There are some all-time favourites here!

Here is the list, including the year of publication:

  • Sorry (1934)
  • Monopoly (1935)
  • Yahtzee (1938)
  • Stratego (1947)
  • Clue (1948)
  • Scrabble (1948)
  • Blockhead (1954)
  • Mille Bornes (1954)
  • Twixt (1957)
  • Diplomacy (1959)
  • Risk (1959)
  • Acquire (1962)
  • Twister (1966)
  • Bridgette (1970)
  • Dungeons & Dragons (1974)
  • Pente (1979)
  • Civilization (1980)
  • Othello (1980)
  • Axis & Allies (1981)
  • Trivial Pursuit (1981)
  • Taboo (1989)
  • Tribond (1989)
  • Magic the Gathering (1993)
  • The Settlers of Catan (1995)
  • Apples to Apples (1999)

Sources:

The Board Game Family

Board Game Geek

Wikipedia/Games 100


Celebrate with us all month long as your School Library observes International Games Month!