Word Jail
Welcome to our first inmate in “Word Jail”. He’s in jail because he’s failed to follow the phonetic rules and thus must be learned as a ‘sight word’. You can expect to see many more additions to our word jail as the year goes…
2nd grade fun box ideas
Here’s a fun game called Logic Links Puzzle Box, it comes with 166 different puzzle cards that get harder as you go, with little colored disks. You have to read the clues on the cards to figure out how to place the colored disks on the cards. They are fun…
Workbox Activity Cards
I found these fun cards on Spell Out Loud today. They are fun Physical Activity cards for boxes. I think my kids will LOVE these so keep an eye out for them in our boxes! I left 2 of them in strips because the items went together and seemed like…
Group Art: Lesson In Contrast
We did a lesson in contrast today from the book How To Teach Art To Children, they learned what contrast means (the degree of difference between colors or tones in a piece of art), and made a grid to show high contrast color combinations. I really like this book, they…
Kindergarten Letter C
Here’s our Kindergarten boxes for the day, I didn’t take as many pics of my son actually working as our Teeny Tiny Tot was whiney…you can see what we finally did with her at the end of this post. 1. Math, he’s doing well with this, so its actually fun…
Prek Letter L day 3
To continue our Letter L and number six learning we are doing a worksheet I downloaded from KidZone. You can pick what you need by grade level and subject! Next was a fun L puzzle I found in a set of alphabet puzzles I got at a used curriculum sale.…
Prek Letter L day 2
To go along with her letter L week, today we read the book “Is Your Mama A Llama?” This was a cute book, everyone liked it. Next we made a fun Llama craft to go with our “Is your mama a llama?” book. I found a llama coloring page, cut…
Sue Patrick Typing Program
Hi,some of you have asked about my typing program. I mentioned that it came free when I purchased the Sue Patrick Workbox System book. The typing program is an additional download, so its not inside the book. Once you purchase the program, she gives you a login to her website.…
Underwater Basket Weaving
Tonight was our Keepers at Home group. She loves this group and we’ve learned some fun things here. Tonight was basket weaving. Praise God that a friend sent the video for us to pre-watch before we started, or i would have been lost! If you’re interested, the Basket Master Nancy…
Exploring Creation with Astronomy Day 1!
Before school starts, we do our Abeka Bible Study, we love this! And then we started our Exploring Creation with Astronomy series. I’m excited to go through this book, its written for elementary students, and has fun activities to go along with each lesson. We do this all before boxes…