May. 4, 2009 - Changing the thought pattern...
I have decided to change the thought pattern of my blog here at homeschool blogger. I have another blog called Taylor'd By God on Eblogger and I think I will keep that blog for posting things that my gracious Lord is teaching me as I walk by His side and learn to be His disciple. Soooo, for my first blog here I think I will post about something that seems to be a very HOT topic among homeschooling moms right now, Workboxes. I just purchased the ebook as I didn't want to wait for a long time for it to get to me in the mail. Oh! and look at that my email with my new book just came in! How exciting. I only purchased it after seeing what some are doing to adjust it for their family. We have four children and a small house (only 1500 sq. ft. of living space). My hubby is picky about how things look in our home as far as being tacky or not. With that, one of the four bedrooms is our school room. I really could use three more, to separate the three boys (their room is barely big enough for the 3 beds in there) and put my hubby's office in another. I just couldn't see how I would be able to fit 12 boxes on shelves in my house for each of the four children. Thus, my research began! I Googled Workbox system, Workbox Ideas, Workbox, etc. I checked out several blogs and what a gifting some of you out there have in the way of being creative. I saw pictures of everything from decorated cereal boxes to manila envelopes to stackable dwars to the original workbox type stations. They were all great. I understand that the author really recomends using shoeboxes or similar sized boxes but when your space is VERY limited or your family is very large or both! That can make it very difficult. I will be blogging here over the next several week what I am going to do in my homeschooling room and how I will organize this system to fit our family's needs and space. I hope that it will give others hope in what I do and inspire you to be creative to make the nessasary adjustments to maybe make this system work for you. I will try and post pictures (I have not had much luck on this blog site with that in the past and don't know if it will work) and if I can't get the pictures to upload I will try and explain in the best detail possible.
