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Workbox Success!

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Homeschooling is a continual learning process.   Last semester we kind of floundered around a bit, but this semester we’ve found a great curriculum that is working for us.  Organizing  and scheduling has been a challenge for me, even though I really like to be organized. I don’t know anything about being  a school teacher or how classrooms run.  Anyway, I had a little schedule I’d written out for each day, but we rarely stuck to it.  Keeping L focused on the different subjects was a challenge, all he wanted to do was Phonics worksheets.  He loves to learn to read.  But is not much motivated to do anything else.  I know nothing else is as critical right now, but I also want to cultivate good habits of diligent work and a love of all subjects, and a variety of books.  I had been reading about the workbox system on various blogs.  It looked great, but I had no space for actual work boxes.  So I came up with my own system. It took me about a week of afternoons to get everything pu