One thing about workboxes- I’m tempted to rush out (or off to Amazon) and buy lots of fun new things now that we have time for them. But, there is really no need to do this. As I look around my home, I am finding all kinds of things I already have that can be used for school!
Yesterday, I filled one workbox with some hard plastic animals. Yes, I put TOYS from the boys’ room in a workbox for Elijah. I added a handy-dandy Animal Classification Graph, and voila! – a fun, hands-on, educational (science and math) workbox. If you don’t have plastic animals, you could always use photos of animals.
I went easy on Elijah for the first time. Ever since we rowed The Salamander Room, he has had the basic five classifications down pat. I wanted him to be comfortable with making the graph more than anything. I told him the next graph may require some animal research (which he loves).
Here he is hard at work on this box today.
I look forward to using this idea in the future. I will try to post all the graphs I make in one post (coming soon).
Happy Workboxing!
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