Workbox Update

I still love workboxes. I have found it's a little challenging some days to make sure I am not needed by 2 or more kids at the same time...unless we are doing something together anyway. I am getting better at the timing of it all though. I thought I would share a few assignments from today's boxes.

Let's start with a few of Betsie's boxes. Betsie is three. She is not required to do school yet, but if I don't keep her busy, it is REALLY hard to do any work with the other two girls! One thing she did today was match little foam numbers to a chart with numbers on it. This activity was from a preschool bag swap I did a few years ago. We have a similar activity for letters.


In the box pictured below, we did a sorting activity. That blue circle folds up like the red and yellow ones in the box. For older kids these make nice ven diagrams for comparing sets. For preschoolers, they make a nice easy way to sort items. We sorted unifix cubes by color. Then we counted each group. We made a stack for each set and compared the length of each stack. We also wrote the numeral representing each stack on an index card. Betsie thought this was so fun. She has no idea how much math she did today.


Betsie also got to play Memory with me, read a book, play with Little People, fold washcloths, and watch a Signing Time DVD today. I know she did a few more things, but those are the ones I remember right now!

The next two boxes show a little of what Mary, my 2nd grader, worked on today. The box pictured below shows our current read aloud, a biography of Gladys Aylward. I read a chapter out loud to all three girls while they ate their snack or worked on a different quiet activity. They love this time and so do I.


The box below was a math activity for Mary. She had to use the straws (which had been cut into a variety of lengths) to make several quadrilaterals. She also did the dot-to-dot activity. I put those in the same box because they were both quick activities and she was not doing 12 boxes today. (She is receiving tutoring and on tutoring days, I give her less work.)



Some of Mary's other work included a map activity, learning about animals in the arctic, and reviewing Bible verses we have memorized.

Now for a couple of Rachel's boxes. Rachel is my 5th grader. Yesterday I got this American Girl Minute Mysteries book with my Rainbow Resource order. I found it when I searched for logic items and I thought she might enjoy it. It says it is for ages 8 and up so I do think it's a little easy for her. If you have a sharp 7-9 year old girl, these might be perfect. You have to read a few pages and solve a little brain teaser. Pretty cute just-for-fun activity.


Rachel also had her spelling in one workbox. Not a fun activity, but it's got to be done. Love Sequential Spelling by the way.

Other things in Rachel's workboxes included paper dolls for Russia, a note telling her to research and sketch St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, math, and a few of the activities I mentioned for Mary.

We love this system and I am so thankful for it!