My Life With 3 Active little boys!: Workboxes

Recently I have been introduced to the Workbox system for homeschooling. Its a system developed by a lady named Sue Patrick. She has a whole book on the topic but I have not read it, I have just been researching other peoples blogs to get ideas. I found this blog called Confessions of a Homeschooler that had a great system and I really fell in love with it. She used scrapbooking carts to organize her kids workboxes. I love it!!

Basically the workbox system goes like this: each child has a cart/shelf/file box or whatever works for your family. There are 12 of them and each box contains one subject or activity. The children then proceed through their boxes and when they reach box 12 then they are done with school for the day.

I will be adapting this system to meet the needs of my family so we will be doing our workboxes this way. I bought these scrapbooking carts, one for each of my older boys. I used velcro dots and placed two on each box. Each box will contain one subject or project along with all the supplies they will need to complete that subject or project. Each of my boys will also have a grid card that also has velcro dots on it, when they complete their box they will take the number card off of it and place it onto their grid card. Some boxes will also contain a "Work with mom" card or a special card like computer time, outside time or something like that. I will be posting on the final details later, right now we are in the process of just setting it up.

Reviews of this system are amazing! The workbox system is supposed to help support independent work and helping with the flow of the day, so you can get in the fun things you want to do but also the academic gets done. If you are curious about this system all you have to do is google "workboxes for homeschooling" and you will get a ton of hits. Everybody has a different way of doing and they all seem to work. So if you have a small space and can't use the carts, I saw someone had used a dish drainer. Or even just a plastic file box with folders inside. There are so many options to use with this system, that's why I love it!