Workbox Ideas
Last week I made a long list of ideas to use in our workboxes. A lot of these activities are based on my boys likes and interests. These would be activities outside of our normal curriculum. This is what I came up with....
*Small bag of Legos with instructions to build something (build a food, a vehicle, a building, etc.)
*TOS Crew materials (that we will need to review this year)
*We will use the above book that we picked up while in Canada. Some of the activities will be...
-Build provincial flags out of legos
-Color the provincial flags
-Read the history of the province. Narrate it to mom.
-Write down how each province got its name.
-Label provincial maps.
*Draw historical scenes.
*Color scenes from the Story of the World activity book.
*Kid cryptograms
*Calculator games
*Learn the Babylonian number system
*Study Times Tales
*Put envelopes of skip count numbers in order (Right Start game box)
*Study "Yo, Millard Fillmore!" book to learn the presidents
*Read a Greek myth and then tell it back to mom
*Whittle something
*Magic number squares
*Cook a recipe
*Create a chess board out of legos
*Study chess strategies
*Make 3D snowflakes
*Label a picture with Spanish words
*Pick a Bible story and draw its events
*Listen to Skip Count Kid CD
*Make a list of extinct animals
*Do Word Roots computer game
*Find a country for every letter of the alphabet
*Look at a map of the US. Categorize the state according to what letter they start with.
*Alphabetize the states.
*Put the books of the Bible in order from a list of the books which are out of order.
*A-Z exotic animals
Zach, working on creating a web page
One of the remaining buildings in Dawson from the gold rush days.
Zach with an inukshuk that he built in 
The last remains of the town of 
The start of the Chilkoot Trail...read about the history of the trail 
