Workboxes!

Okay, we got back to it today, and here was our first day back into a full workbox day.  It was so great, and I was so excited to get all 12 boxes filled for both my preschooler and my 3rd grader!  They loved it!  Unfortunately we got through only half of the boxes today because my neighbor was in a pickle and I needed to watch her little girl.  That's okay, if we don't finish them they are there for the next day.  Sometimes life just happens.  It's important to finish all the boxes though and we really usually do.

Here are the 3rd grade boxes all filled:

Here are the preschool boxes filled.  I decided to just switch over all boxes from the trays for Aaron because he was ready.  They hold the things that he'll be working on better now too.  He has all snowman stuff in his boxes today:

 

Thanks to a great blog called Confessions of a Homeschooler, I found these great snowman: letter S activities.  They filled up all the boxes!  (sorry, all the boxes are mixed between the two in this post)

Preschool Snowman cutting practice:

3rd grade Creative and Critical thinking:  She worked on a November page.

 

3rd grade box: place value game, she rolled the dice and put x number of hundred dollars, ten dollars, and one dollars, whatever was rolled (materials are from her Saxon Math book, I just laminated them and added the game feature to make it more fun).

 

3rd grade box:  "P is for Pilgrim" book and activity, she had to make a thanksgiving menu.

 

Aaron doing his snowman cutting.

 

Preschool box:  Number and writing practice (he liked this)

 

Preschool box:  Build a snowman, for the bottom ball he glued mini marshmallows on the paper, and put the rest of the snowman together.

 

 3rd grade box:  Fun crafts for American Girl dolls.  This was requested as a fun box by April, so I put it in there.  She wanted to make play cookies to share with her doll.

 

Preschool box:  color the snowman picture.  I'm so impressed with his tracing of the S!

Preschool box:  Snowman patterns, he hasn't done this one yet.  This might be a little above him, we'll see.

 Preschool box:  Snowman puzzle

 

 Preschool box:  Snowman bottle cap word game (match the bottle caps to the letters to spell the word).

 

 Preschool box:  Snowman scavenger hunt

 

 Preschool box:  Build a snowman

 

 Preschool box:  S is for snowman with little round magnets.

 

 Preschool box:  Snowman numbers 1-10 to lay out on the floor.

 

 3rd grade box:  Thanksgiving on Thursday reading and vocabulary sheet.

 

 3rd grade box:  Add leaves to Thanks and Giving trees and write down 3 things you are thankful for and 3 things you have given to someone else.

 

 3rd grade box:  Kit, American Girl, Learns a lesson (a thanksgiving story) lapbook.  She is working on chapter 2 now.  (oh and the pens are her new special pens for lapbooking, I decided that her lapbooks needed some colorful writing, she liked this)

 

 3rd grade box:  Journal writing.  This is the only notebook I could find, not my first choice.  For some reason her journals keep disappearing.

 

 3rd grade box:  Sue Patrick's typing lessons, her first one!  We even have a type writer out now!

 

 3rd grade box:  Read it!  Draw it!  Solve it!  Just a word problem or puzzle to solve each day, love this book!

 

Also, she worked on a Saxon 4/5 math lesson too, I just didn't get a picture of it.

So, that's it for workboxes this week!  

Home schooling one day at a time--as long as it takes

Desiree