Well, I’m happy to have the first week down, I never know how school will go, but last week went fairly smooth and I’m crediting it all to the fabulous workboxes! Really, I can’t stress enough how much these have ‘revolutionized’ our homeschool! Everyone loves the boxes, and they really…
Found this cool site today, she has tons of printables, lots for planning, but then also a lot for working! I like these tracing pages, they can get in great handwriting practice, while having fun, then can color their drawing! http://donnayoung.org/penmanship/printing-readiness-2.htm
I’ve been busy organizing for next week already! Here are some of the projects for the upcoming week for my preschooler. First up to bat are stringing beads I got on clearance from US Toys, they even come with cards to have her copy the pattern, I’m hoping these are…
2nd Grade Boxes: We do math and spelling tests on Friday, and we also do Nature walks and such, so everyone only has about 5-6 boxes today. I put a little treat in the last box just for fun! Math U See Test I found these assessment worksheets today, LOVE…
Look at that nice little stack of boxes on the floor to the right of her, she’s working her last puzzle box now, I can’t believe it, she actually did them all today, in order even! 2nd Grader Fun Boxes:Dice Addition and Subtration game, simply roll the dice, fill in…
Found this cool site off of a homeschool group I’m in, has tons of great resources for school, including special education needs as well, just had to share:http://www.senteacher.org/ Also these magnetic worksheets look like fun to me! They also have numbers and letters.http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/magnetmosaics.html
My box pics are mixed up today b/c some of them weren’t as exciting to take photos of, I’ll obviously have spelling, handwriting, math everyday so here are some of the more fun ones… Here’s something I’m actually going to open this and put it on a table labeled “science…
More from my workboxes day 2. As you can see, I only have 10 boxes, and for the older grades I agree with Sue Patrick, you should probably have 12 boxes, but I’ve found I can double up work into 1 box, then use the extra box for a ‘fun’…
Read aloud time…he picks a book and I pick a book. I usually put a little sack of crackers, or sometimes fun stuff like cookies in here so he can snack while we read. I also make sure to have the others doing an independant box so we can have…
Some more ideas for boxes, my 3 year old tomorrow:Clownfish (nemo) lapbook, I put the book together, she pasted and glued where needed!Stained glass window craftnumbers puzzle, she loves this!Counting q-tips, 1-10Poster Center: Color matchingAnother color idea: popsicle sticks velcro to match color sheetLetter ‘A’, color ‘A’ pictures and paste…
