Okay, here are some of the goodies in the boy's box today. He requested the Ocean Animals number cards, so we switched those up from the vehicles one. I also put the bigger workbox on the second shelf, and have a good mix of more studious work to fun stuff.
These bird sheets are Montessori works, and basically the child takes the bird pictures and matches it to the correct square/word to describe it. I colored the different areas and then just drew up a sheet. Usually this should go on a file folder. Mine is old, I made it some years ago...then the pen bled in the folder and you could not read the words-so I just made up a new set to place the pics on. I lamiated them and will call it a day. I put the bird pieces in an old cassette tape holder. I have them for the fish, bird, reptile, and amphibian. We'll do the frog when we start our lapbook on them. This is a quick intro for body parts for my son. We'll get more indepth when we get back into the Flying Creatures Science book and the Land Animals one as well. I am winding down our year-so trying to keep it more fun, less work and light in academics.
I think I saw some downloadable pics for these very things on the site Montessori Materials-look under the science (I hope I saw them there).
This piggy set was a freebie thru our Lutheran Brotherhood Insurance company. It teaches kids to save, spend and tithe by having a piggy bank that is divided into those parts and is accompanied by a workbook that came laminated, so they can write in it with the erasable markers, and erase to reuse as needed. I also put in some change for the boy to put into it. I should think one can come up with something similar for their boxes. Find a piggy bank (we got some for free when our bank opened), loose change, maybe a book on money from the library and then you can discuss ways to save/spend/tithe it.
These are those beads you layout in a pattern and then use a cool iron to melt em together. I think now they have the ones the kids just spray with water and they stick together-but we have these and no new ones are entering my home til these are all used up. I have a huge HELP button on the outside, since he cannot do the iron part. He has a pattern he can choose a vehicle to make from, or can get the patterns out and choose one of those (these are the plastic forms that make something-like a cat).
I also have a box with a sheet on map reading from Enchanted Learning (must have membership and I totally recommend this awesome resource), some colored pencils and a note that says to work on it with dad. Tomorrow he will get a sheet to label the compass, a compass and I will have some things written down for him to do using that compass. We'll also have a project where he will make a globe. We also have the usuals in there-math, reading, copywork, etc.
One final thing-yesterday-may son proclaimed, "I am going to do school the rest of my life!" and in a positive way, as he was so excited about completing his boxes. I almost cried. This was a kid who would run in the opposite direction when I said it was time to hit the books. He was very resistant to school up until those workboxes showed up. I am so sold on this system-amazing. I have another post showing a cool thing you can make, but I must get to an appointment-will post later.
And dear friends-that is What's in the Box for today.
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