We used workboxes to organize the assignments in Kindergarten. It worked very well for us, but I did want to make some changes to the basic layout when moving on to 1st Grade. (Watch for later posts to go into more detail about why/how to use workboxes, how we organized K, and why my family uses My Father's World as our homeschooling curriculum.) I first got the idea for the grid style from http://www.homeschoolcreations.net/2010/07/our-new-workbox-system-workbook-weekly/ but I waited to implement it with first grade. Upon re-reviewing the site, I noticed she mentioned this site. http://ginger-snap-shots.blogspot.com/2009/08/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed.html I used this idea and modified it for me. MFW (My Father's World) is fairly repetitive for each day of the week so I thought a grid for each day would work well. Note: I labeled them Day One - Day Five, versus Monday - Friday because I didn't want us to miss a day of school for field trips, dr. appointments, etc, and then be working on the wrong 'day'. Yes, I'm somewhat OCD. 1st Daily Grid - Day One There are Velcro dots on both sides of the cards. When the workbox is complete my son turns over the card. Partially Completed Day All White = A Completed Day The Week I try to do my school planning every Saturday morning. So I like the idea of loading all the workboxes for the coming week all at one time; while I am already looking at what is upcoming. Also, this grid allows the cards to stay on the day it is likely to appear again. This saves me from having to load the whole day one card at a time from another location (what I did with K). Now I simply flip it face up and make adjustments as needed. Also, you can see quite a few of the workboxes are pictures of actual items. I found that 1st does not require a lot of bins instead I could assign homes for several items. I'm trying to take snippets of what I am doing. So it will take me several blog posts to review all of the setup. Please feel free to ask questions in the comment section. :) Also, if there is something you'd like to see addressed in a future post please let me know. Coming next.....What I do with loose worksheets and the like.....
