It seems like we had too many school activities every week but I found that everything can be well organized on our school corner mixing the Montessori trays with the Workboxes system. This mix really suits us because:
- We don’t have a comfortable prepared school room (rented apartment)
- Just have one child always besides mommy looking for what I am doing
- Pinky loves to have different options available
- Mommy doesn’t have to think to much in order to come up with an activity
- Mommy can have a better idea with what Pinky worked already
- Better organization and more space available
- Sanity for mommy: Don’t see her beautiful trays are over the place
Here is an idea of how we mixed some kind of Montessori activities with the Workboxes:
Montessori-inspired activities, worksheets, art, Education cubes
Those big activities that doesn’t fit inside the boxes can stay on trays!!!
Close-up to our workboxes. To keep Pinky interested on completing an activity or clean up after finishing, she can select a princess prize (I printed and laminated some princesses pics and hold them to the boxes with Velcro)
There you can see our homeschool corner (excellent for the two of us; doesn’t take too much space and everything is in its place)
So far, it is great!!!!




















3 comments:
Great arrangement ;-) We also have the space problem but your organization seems so neat. I must think about buying the workbox shelf.
Love Pinky's expression while working with nomenclature cards ;-) She's so cute and focus ;-)
Did you prepare yourself the magnifying glass activity with the flowers? It's fabulous.
Great job Mama ;-)
Love
Ewa
Hi Ewa...This new arrangement of our little school has been fantastic...we can do many activities without taking too much space. About the magnifying activity these are from Martha @ Early earning with Martha and Eaton blog, here's the link: http://earlylearning-eaton.blogspot.com/2011/01/file-folder-games-tropical-flowers.html
She did such an amazing job with flowers from Hawaii. She did the activity as a file folder game. Thanks so much for your great comment and wishing you and the boys a wonderful week!
Love this corner.
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