I'm not nearly as creative as many others in the workbox craze, but I do like that it helps my children do a portion of their work independently.  This has been a big help on days when I work outside the home, or even when I'm working from home with pressing deadlines.  So tomorrow's workboxes are planned as followes:

K - 3rd grade

1.  Bible time with Mom - We're in Joshua ch.1 

2. Learning about the earth's hemispheres. This one will involve paint and a styrofoam ball. He should enjoy.

3. Math - Tomorrow he'll cover two lessons, since much of this is still review from what he learned in Saxon 3.  He does this work independently, leaving me time to work with C.

4.  Handwriting - just a sheet from a generic cursive writing book. Tomorrow's letter of emphasis is J

5.  Spelling - a couple of exercises in his Spelling Workout D workbook

6.  Reading - Make a paper bag puppet for one of the characters in a book he just finished (Ralph S. Mouse) then tell the main points of the story using the puppet. - He doesn't enjoy writing, so a formal book report doesn't work well yet. Hopefully this will also help him with his presentation skills.

7. Working on an exercise in Writing Strands.  We're only on our second exercise so it's hard to tell if this book is going to be a good fit for us through the year.  It's started very gently, which has helped with K. I can see improvement in his writing from last year, but know we're not yet up to par.  Funny that he's such a reluctant writer, considering that I supplement our income with writing.  Doesn't look like C is going to have the writing bug either

8. Journal - free writing time. 6 minutes.

9. Keyboard practice. He's doing pretty well with this so far this year.

10. First Language Lessons Grade 3 - Tomorrow's emphasis is on narrating a passage I'll read aloud.

11. UTAWG - Uninterrupted time alone with God. This has been very informal and unstructured.  I turn him loose with his Bible and a journal.  Lately he's been reading in Genesis and is up to chapter 24 I think.

Lots of workboxers do a better job of incorporating fun into their workboxes than I do.  Right now he gets plenty of "fun" outside of school time and I really need to emphasize their true subjects.  We miss days or subjects often enough with other commitments that I want to "hit the books" when we can.

And for C - 1st grade

1 and 2 - Same as above.

3. MUS - Working on <, > and =.  It's always a struggle with C. She says she doesn't get it, but does fine on the problems when she puts effort into it.  The problem is she'd rather moan and groan than just do it.  I pray for her regularly! 

4. Reading - reading aloud from an Abeka reader that I stumbled across. I'd like to have more of these, but not willing to pay the full price from Abeka. I can always find something else for her to read aloud from. Also will review some lessons from Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading making up silly sentences using recently learned words.

5 and 6 - Pages in her phonics (Horizons) and Spelling (Spectrum) workbooks. 

7 - Journal - Free writing, though lately she's taken the lazy way out and has chosen to write "I don't know what to write" over and over. I'm hoping this is a fad that will pass.  Refer to her #3 above!

8. UTAWG

9. First Language Lessons - 1st grade. Learning about common and proper nouns.

10. Writing - Learning about sentences and writing some sentences.  I use a workbook for this, though I don't remember the publisher off the top of my head.  I think that if I have two reluctant writers, I'm not presenting it well as the teacher.

11. Let's Play Library - she set up a bookstore in the living room today, allowing customers to purchase from her stock of books. So since all the stuff is out in the middle of the room anyway, thought I'd take advantage of it and let her play with a library set I printed up from http://homeschooling.about.com/od/freeprintables/ss/library.htm

We'll probably also babysit for our neighbors who are trying to learn Mongolian as they will be relocating there within a month.  And hoping to squeeze in a trip to the library.  Hubby is traveling this week, so we're able to school into the evening if needed. 

Thanks for reading along!