Silver Moon Learning

Aug. 15, 2009

Now for the lesson organizer

My inspiration for this project is from this blog ~ Life in the Garden. I borrowed her main idea and put my own spin on it. First big difference is mine is fabric, I just couldn't see paper strips being durable enough to last very long. Then I put my index cards in page protector sleeves, instead of laminating each card, and hot glued a bit of velcro to the back. They're still dry erasable, but dry erase markers smudge off too easy. I wanted to be able to write directly on the card, and we change our routines/minds so frequently I didn't want to have to relaminate another set two months from now. The big two have 12 cards, the little two have 8 cards. They don't have that many lessons! Stuff like "clean a hot spot in the living room" or "play a video game for thirty minutes" will be added. It'll be fun to surprise them with rewards between the work. They each picked their own fabric, which is in their typical color choice. They're slowly color coding themselves, which comes in handy at times! So here you have our variation of someone else's workbox variation. Yes, I realize the baby won't realize what on earth it's for, but this way I won't have to reverse engineer another set two years from now. From left to right it's biggest kid to littlest kid. I'll stick Faith's name or something up on hers so she doesn't feel totally left out. This is an example from Honor's so you can see how it works. When whatever is on the card is finished, it goes in the pocket. When his strip is void of cards, he's done for the day. Here are Joy's and Honor's without any cards slipped in.

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Aug. 20, 2009 - Cool ideas!

Posted by Anonymous

I just want to tell you that even if I didn't know the birth order of the kids I could still pick out which fabric goes with which kid. ♥

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Aug. 20, 2009 - That was me ^

Posted by Anonymous

Corey

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