Workboxes...I Am Officially on this Bandwagon

The ladies at the Five in a Row boards have gone crazy over workboxes since Leslie introduced them a week or so ago. Count me as one of the converts. Workboxes is a tool developed by Sue Patrick that is a useful way to organize a school day. First, here is a picture so you'll know what I am talking about.

Basically you use between 6 and 15 shoebox size clear boxes to assign and organize a day's worth of school work. Each child has a shelf with 12 boxes and they work their way through the boxes sequentially. The ones pictured above are Betsie's boxes (preschool). Here is what she will be doing tomorrow.

1. A shape worksheet (She asks for stuff like this so she can feel big.)

2. Handwriting Without Tears wooden letter pieces

3. Teddy Bear counter sorting activity

4. Book she is always begging to read that I usually try NOT to read because I am sick of it.

5. snack

6. Coupons and scissors (not the ones I actually want)

7. Alphabet stamps, paper, and ink pads (I try to have all necessary materials in the boxes.)

8. Dry erase board and marker

9. Story Bible

10. blocks

11. Before Five in a Row book

12. DVD

Here are Mary and Rachel's boxes:

Mary (2nd grade) will be working on these 12 activities tomorrow:
1. Reviewing the Lord's prayer
2. Science (Usborne book)
3. Reading Made Easy
4. tangrams
5. book basket
6. sight words and a snack
7. Math game
8. calendar activities
9. science coloring book
10. Math lesson
11. More of the Reading Made Easy lesson (This system makes it easy to break longer lessons into less overwhelming parts.)
12. Read aloud

Rachel (5th grader) will be doing these activities:
1. Review the Lord's prayer
2. Science (See Mary's #2)
3. Book basket
4. tangrams
5. Sequential Spelling
6. Health and writing activity (Using The Care and Keeping of You from American Girl)
7. Handwriting practice
8. Read the Times Tales stories (multiplication/division review activity) (Easy to build in review with this system)
9. Make geography cards
10. Math (Teaching textbooks)
11. Presidents thingy that was in a chick-fil-a kids meal
12. Read aloud

More on workboxes soon! Gotta go to bed!