Before I get to the main part of my post, let me put in a quick plug for the Carnival of Super Foods at Kitchen Stewardship. It begins on October 1st, which is just about a week away. If you have (or would like to collect) recipes that would fit in with a whole foods and/or traditional foods diet, check it out! The carnival will run for five weeks, and cover the following themes/categories: beans, broth, super foods, unprocessed (make-your-own) foods, and healthy fats. I am really looking forward to this carnival.
Now, on to your regularly-scheduled blog post…
We have just this year begun using a variation of Workboxes for our homeschool. (For those of you who are new to the idea of Workboxes, they are not a curriculum, but a method of organization.) It’s taking some time for us to settle into something of a groove and figure out what works for us. This is especially true in the area of planning – in other words, for me as the mama. It was taking me forever to fill the boxes each night and, as a result, they just weren’t getting filled. I put my problem-solving skills to work. (I also got some ideas from the moms in the Workboxes Yahoo group, but those are another post.) One of the major helps I came up with was these:
I’m not sure if you can see that. I’m working on figuring out how to link it to the original, larger picture. (I have to figure out where WordPress saved the original.) These are just 3×5-inch cards with instructions printed on them, laminated. I printed out a card for each instruction I found myself – or imagined finding myself later – repeating over and over as explanation of Ariel’s workbox contents. Some of these cards have blanks, or space to add writing. For instance, “Look ____________ up in the encyclopedia.” I also cut a few cards in half and printed times on them (5 minutes, 15 minutes, etc.) to add to open-ended but otherwise self-explanatory activities. Although they aren’t pictured, I also laminated a few blank cards to write instructions on – a couple of 3×5-inch ones and four quarter-sheets of paper. Unfortunately, I’m finding that dry erase doesn’t wipe off of them very cleanly, so I probably need to switch to wet-erase markers.
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