We are trying WORKBOXES this year...

I have heard alot of talk about Sue Patrick's Workbox System.. I have read almost every blog and also joined the Yahoo Group for workboxes.. We have decided to try it with our 3 children.. Allie who is going into 11th grade this year, Nick who is going into 8th and Cristian who is just going to be starting kindergarten this year. I am just getting organized with it but wanted to post a few pictures of our setup. We do have a school room in the basement but in the winter we do our schooling in the dining room as we heat our house with a pellet stove and there is no heat down in the basement in the winter.. We decided to buy the Ikea Trofast system and set it up in our dining room.. Each child will have 9 boxes and we use a schedule grid instead of the schedule strip that Sue Patrick uses in her book... Here are a few pics.. I will keep posting on how it's going...

Back on the blog...

Well,
Thought I was gonna get into a blogging routine but havn't.. We have had some family issues. My aunt has been really sick since October and was hospitalized. We now have her dog (one of my dog's sister).. So now we have 3 dogs, 2 cats, 3 children and 2 adults in our small cape cod... it's crowded but we don't mind as we are helping her out!

So,
As far as schooling we have been doing ok.. Allie has kept up and is doing really well with her Marine Biology and Japanese.. She loves her world history also. She already finished her LLATL Gold. She has chosen to do some Smarr lit guides in addition to what she has already done.

Nick had to be switched in Language Arts and Math. I just didn't feel he was retaining any of it.. So, we stopped Easy Grammar and BJU Math and started him in CLE LA and Math. So far, so good... We also added some lifepacs for history. We are studying American History so we added some of those. We also got the Drive Thru History series for homeschoolers that had the american history in it.. Nick loves them.. I wish there were more...

Cristian has Started BJU Math K5. He really has showed an interest in math. Loves doing it so we decided to try it and so far so good. He still does some of the Rod and Staff books and other workbooks but not as much as the BJU (he really loves it!!) I am not pushing him with the phonics and such and just hoping that when he is ready he will want to learn...