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Even More Workfile Resources!

Many of you are familiar with workboxes.  Our family has tweaked the concept to work for us, and two of our younger children (9 and 6) have workfiles they work through systematically each day.  While filling ours for the fall, we discovered some neat new resources:Quiet Times for Kids has neat little thoughtful devotionals that kids can work through on their own. I love reading the answers my youngest ones give. ♥ Jolanthe has created downloadable tags for workboxes and files.  I ♥ Jolanthe ♥ My sweet-mama friend Stacy shared an idea for practicing addition and subtraction facts here.  You can download the pre-made sheets here. So many ways to use these, aren't there?
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How to Keep Workboxes From Running Your Life
I was also wondering if you have any great tips to share about planning for the workboxes. We are using them and I love them, but I am pretty sure you are not working to come up with new ideas every couple of nights- we all know your knack and necessity for getting things planned out ahead. ~Alicia Ah, now this is an easy one to answer.  You know me- I like to do as much prep at one time as possible.  Do it and get it over with, so to speak.  So I sat down one evening during Christmas break and put together all the papers for one day's worth of work over and over again until I filled a legal box with several months' of work.  Looks like this:

(That finished worksheet shouldn't be in there but it made its way into the photo.) Now on Sunday evenings all I have to do is pull out a week's worth at a time and drop them into the girls' workfiles.  I put a day's worth of work together, then another day's work together, etc., and stack them in alternating directions. Like this:

By the way, our 6-year-old doesn't have two names.  She signs everything with the name we gave her and the name she wishes we gave her. :)

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