Daily Work Baskets for your Homeschool

I am in the end of the year process, with a few months left before summer break--- organizing our learning space, clearing out old papers, planning to give some items to the thrift store, and preparing to organize this year's workbooks and schoolwork for storage! Also, planning lots of fun curriculum and some changes for next year, Lord-willing- His Hand is over us completely and I can only plan so much for the harvest of new books that will arrive after a time period of rest.

All that said... Introducing Daily Work Baskets! I am hoping to keep this routine for the rest of the year, and next year also. I love the workbox system pictures, but I am saving money through the basket system right now.

---My children and I have group- reading time to start our day off right- reading the Bible or a devotional before independent work is started.

Here are some pictures of my first grader's work basket for tomorrow:

-I have an art activity for her to add leaves using beans on a paper tree, utilizing liquid Elmer's glue.
(Yes a quick mom moment for some type of craft!!!)
These worksheets come from Art With a Purpose from Milestone Books.com.

-There is a hands-on learning activity with Curious Minds Busy Bags- I highly recommend these found on Amazon.
We have a book assignment for reading. For the end of the year, I printed out math and literacy printables on teachers pay teachers from Teacher Tam. These include cut and pasting activities. She has some more scripture work to trace, of which I type and print using a purchased traceable font. Lastly, there is a cursive penmanship worksheet from Abeka.

(I love the Charlotte Mason and Classical Learning method), and usually throw a bit of whatever I have on hand, forming hands-on activities in-between- to add rotation and new excitement to daily work schedules every now and then!
I am a very hodge-podge person and usually throw down the teacher's guides and use the books how we choose. This works as a reality for us.

Here is my 3rd grader's basket:

She has the same type of workload: Hymn Copywork (I found this free online), teachers pay teachers Math and Literacy worksheets by Moffat Girls, a paper craft from Art With a Purpose, a Curious Minds activity bag, Rod and Staff Science 3 reading assignment, and a chapter to read in "Heidi". This should keep her busy at work for the day!

My Fifth grader has his own basket with the same type of workload ;) He is currently almost finished with the classical book, "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson. He reads BJU Science 5, has teachers pay teachers worksheets in math and language arts to wrap up his year, and has some art and hands-on activities. 

I hope you enjoy the pictures and what a typical day looks like in our homeschool.

It's not always the same, but we try to have fun and flexibility in our ways of learning. 

(We did just finish a Middle Ages History Unit, which was quite fun. Check out my previous post on it!)