May. 21, 2009 - Thinking Outside the Box

These are my answers to a survey posted on Thinking Outside the Box.  To see everyone else's answers, click on the picture above.

How many boxes do you fill?
It varies from day to day.  I have 4 different schedule sheets made up with - 8 boxes, 9 boxes, 10 boxes or 12 boxes.  Over the summer, I plan to do one box a day.

Do you expect your children to go in order?
Yes, but we're flexible.  If he needs my help for a box when I'm not immediately available, he goes on to the next one.

Do you use the schedule strips?
Yes, I made mine on sheets instead of strips.  We move the velcro number from the box to the sheet when it's done.  I have photos of our schedule sheets posted on my blog.

How long does it take you to fill the boxes?
Filling the boxes only takes about 10 or 15 minutes, but I spend a lot of time on the internet & going through my books, files, etc. (usually during the day when he's working on something he can do independently).  When I fill the boxes, I have a stack of activities all ready to go. 

Do you fill your work boxes EACH night with all new items?
Do you have some boxes repeat each day so there is less filling/refilling?
A few things are repeated almost daily - 45 minutes of Alek's Math, the next lesson in his grammar book, morning read-alouds.  But I switch the order around.  Everything else is new each day.

What do your kids do with the empty boxes?
Stack them on the floor next to the shelf

Do you put away the ‘supplies’ each night? or do your kids?
We put most things away as we use them during the day.  There's really not much left to do except put the boxes back on the shelf for tomorrow.

Anything else you want to add?
Next year we'll be using boxes with Sonlight, which is new to us.  We'll also be using Apologia Science for the first time, so I'd love to hear from anyone that has done those curriculums in boxes.

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May. 22, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Sheri

Well, for starters-email Sonlight and beg the folks to create a workbox schedule (I already have, so hopefully, if more of us do-they will figure out a plan) but because SL is so laid out and easy to read-you should be able to go thru it-see what you need to pop into the boxes and such. I am going to try to come up with some workbox cards that match their sections...but that depends on how much time I get this coming month. Anyhoo-as for Apologia-go to Donnayoung.org, and search the science level you are doing-she has complete schedules for those for free-again-in an easy to understand layout, so you can figure out what to put in the boxes using that too.
HTH

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