I loaded the workboxes for Tuesday and planned the rest of the week.

C:
Workboxes this week include:
Lesson 5 from Foundations Math-U-See
Letter writing : Thank you letters from his birthday.
History/Geography: Abeka 1st grade: Symbols of America
Science: Abeka 1st grade: Baby Animals
Art: Little Boy Adventures (I think we are almost done with this one..)
phonics worksheets
Lego building: Lego City Tow Truck (birthday present)

N:
Letter O: My Father’s World worksheets
Number 3: workbook
Unit Study: Hands of a Child : Down on the Farm Day 4
Sid the Science Kid: coloring and exploring pages
wipe off board: letter practice and word creation.
Tic Tac Toe: wipe off card… with Mommy or Brother
History with brother

I also have a couple craft projects for us this week including a collage for Thanksgiving, button flowers, cork boards from bottle corks, and spool kids from vintage thread spools.
The boys want to hit the bookstore and reading room this week so I think that will be fit in to Tuesday or early Wednesday before co-op but we will see… since we took today off for the most part we have to hit the books harder Tuesday and Thursday to make up for it, but I know they can do it.

One of the Moms in a yahoo group related to workboxes is looking for an idea… Melissa at Day In Day Out is looking for an idea to incorporate a bill sorter into her homeschool…
Got an idea? She is having a contest to find a way to use it… I’m interested in what comes up as I have one of the same wooden bill sorters and would like to re purpose it…

So I am looking at becoming an TOS (The Old Schoolhouse Store) affiliate. I will have a link on the side bar and can post info about upcoming sales as well as my personal likes…

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As promised here are the photos of our set up. The graphics for their cards were created by Honey at Sunflower School House.

Cameron’s theme is “Army Guys”. I used 8 Cropper Hopper 12×12 Scrapbook file sorters (I had 7 of them and got the last one from my Mom…).

Here is what he has scheduled for Monday.

8 Workboxes inside 2 Jet Maxx scrapbook cubes.

C puts his finished work in the file box and finished cards in a painted cigar box.

Nathan’s theme is tractors. His boxes are set up hortizonally and not numbers (I need to shrink the number cards down to fit the boxes).

Ns schedule (not in order, but you get the idea)

When N is done he turns in his card. His work goes back into the box for now.

Sorry it is sideways... box 1 and 4 are ITSO boxes from Target the rest are acrylic trays.

Nathan will have an extra Story card on his wall as we are going to Toddler StoryTime at Third Street Books while Cameron and Daddy do some school time together. Many of their activities this week will focus on “Where the Wild Things Are” with activities from Making Learning Fun as we attended Storytime Sunday at Third Street Books.

2 Kings of the Wild Things.

Cameron won the doorprize, an awesome Coloring Book.

So I decided to share our workboxes this week.

C: 1st grade
Today (Monday was much the same)
1: Computer time (starfall.com for phonic activities)
2. Starfall phonic print outs. Compound words and number words. (He got to work with Papa today as a treat… they did a great job together)
3. Math-U-See Foundations Lesson 4: skip counting by 2 , solving for an unknown, and build and solve simple addition.
4. Art: Watch me Draw “A Boy’s Adventure from Walter Foster
5. Bible Time: Continue building our 10 Commandments Train book and reading Scripture Sleuth Series.
(we didn’t get through the rest of the boxes today, but that was a pretty big day…)

N: PreK/K
1: My Father’s World Letter T day 2 and a Leap Frog beginning sounds page.
2: white board writing
3: computer time with Starfall.com letter activities for Letter T
4: (we had some behavior issues so he didn’t get to do anymore boxes today…)

I need to take a picture of the set up as it is working so well for us and the boys both like their cards (Thanks, Honey!!!).

I need to write up some more reviews I have worked up but need to put Nathan to bed for the night…

I haven’t posted to the blog in a while…. I have a bunch of reviews and school activities to post, but those will come… I had to share today though… We are using a modified WorkBox system based on Sue Patrick’s book. I have hooked up with a group over at the Homeschool Lounge as well as a wonderful group on yahoo filled with moms sharing experiences with Workboxes.Thankfully one of the moms shares her creativity with the group via her blog with tons of downloads that she creates. I have been able to download an awesome theme for each of the boys (pictures will come later.) as well as some great games and add ons…

Here is a link to her site. Sunflowerschoolhouse

Stop by and check it out.

If you haven’t heard about WorkBoxes yet, it is a wonderful system that works for kids PreK-highschool. It helps mom stay organized (especially this mom), and helps the kids see what they need to do.
I will post some more about our method soon.

I had a fun afternoon with Cameron today as we set up our Hands of a Child display at the NORTH SANTIAM HOME EDUCATION Homeschool Fair at the Stayton Library. I met some great homeschoolers and got a chance to catch up with a few homeschoolers we get together with.

I will definately be looking into a Discovery Toys party for sometime soon, I fell in love with a couple of their fun todays… I love toys that are educational and fun!

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