Filling those workboxes!

I was asked about filling the workboxes:

A lot of ladies fill the boxes the night before. I am doing it first thing in the morning- or sometime in the afternoon once they are finished for the day. You put new things in each box each day. For example:
Box 1- for us this is their math book. I just keep the book in the drawer.
Box 2- This is our reading. Since the book I use is too big to go in the box I have their chart in it. Each time they do a lesson we put a sticker over the number of the lesson.
Box 3-Is our writing. I pull one page of penmanship type writing and place it in there.
Box 4- Is a coloring page. We are coloring that Lady and the Tramp coloring book together. So they get one page of that there.
Boxes 5 & 6 vary for the little girls. Might have an art project- One day we made these cute ginger bread people signs!!!!!!!!! Might be playdough or a puzzle or a game.

For the middle kids they are really doing the same thing in the first five boxes each day.
Box 1 is math
Box 2 is History
Box 3 is geography
Box 4 is reading
Box 5 is writing
Box 6 changes every day with art or games.

Right now box 3 is geography but once they are finished with the book they are using it will become science. :) The books they are using just stay in the drawer. We pull out one or two pages a day. Then once finished they go into a folder that is also kept in the drawer.

The older ones have the same things in each drawer each day. Their books are not disposible. So they read the assignment, then write in a spiral notebook kept in that drawer. For the things they do on the computer- they just have a spiral notebook to write each lesson # down and the grade they received. it is all on the computer, but this saves me havng to transcribe those grades later. They do have an art drawer and can do anything they chose for that. They can draw or do projects as they wish- as long as they do SOMETHING every day. We are really loving this system! hugs, Barbara