Keeping It Simple

 I think I mentioned that I love Klutz books. They are just fun .                                                                                        My kids seem to love them too.  I thought this was pretty clever!                                                         ...

I thought I'd include one box from each age group that I have going right now... nothing fancy. For 5yo son-- math book and all supplies. We use number stamps to answer the problems. Just now, James in getting enough control to hold his pencil well and is able to not reverse his numbers. The stamps are fun and make doing math much easier with no writing struggles to deal with. * Math games-- Mark's (2nd grade) favorite! This is from Peggy Kaye's Games for Math . Each player (mom and son) begin with the number 500. Two dice are rolled each turn to make the largest number possible to subtract from 500. The first player to reach 0 wins. I am amazed how this has cemented his subtration skills!! * In the Paul's (11yo) box! Art supplies with a card that instructs him to watch a drawing video on the computer. *

I credit the workboxes for helping us to make use of our "stuff". For us, that stuff takes the form of irresistible bargain finds (who can pass up a good deal?!) that I am always sure the kids will love; yet these "bargains" sit idle on the shelf. Or, they come in the form treasured items that had belonged to my now adult children, but, yet again, they sit on the shelf waiting to be made use of! So, here two examples of things resurrected by the boxes!! THINK-IT-THROUGH: Think it Through Tiles! I don't know if these still exist as such, but I recently saw a similar item in a catalog (ours are from Discovery Toys). Originally, these belonged to my now grown daughters when they were little. They are now making an appearance in my 5 year old's box and he loves them!! I post-it note the sections that he is not doing-- the page is a bit overwhelming and it is easy to lose your place, so this prevents that confusion from happening. TRANSFORMERS: And, this h...