Last week was our first week of homeschool for my 6yo and 3yo. At the start of each day, we begin with a homeschool workbox with an individual activity for each girl to warm-up and get their minds ready to learn. I thought I would share our homeschool workboxes this week. I hope to document them on the blog every week or every few weeks when there aren’t a lot of repeats.
We’ll start with the boxes for my first-grader! The preschool boxes will be posted soon. Don’t miss the post by signing up to receive posts by e-mail! Fill out the form in the sidebar (or click here) and choose “Receive Homeschool Posts by E-mail” for posts like this one and choose “Receive Art Posts by E-mail” to get my art education posts. 
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First Grade Homeschool Workboxes
My starting strategy for my first grader is to have most of our math be in this workbox form. She was in a Montessori school last year for Kindergarten, so she is used to independent works like this. Because I wasn’t her school teacher last year, I am starting the year with a variety of activities so I can assess what she knows and doesn’t know about math. Once I have a better idea of where she is at, I will have more weeks focused on specific learning objectives. For now, we’re just trying a bunch of things out.
Monday : Domino Addition
I don’t know exactly where I got the worksheet I printed, but it is like the one on this page. I laminated it. Then, L took a domino, drew the dots, and wrote the math equation with a dry erase marker.
Tuesday : Lady Bug Roll and Cover
Check out the instructions for this addition activity over on The Measured Mom. We used these clear counting chips instead of the magnets she used.
Wednesday : Measuring with Mathlink Cubes
See the instructions for this on number 10 on this list on The Measured Mom. The estimation part of the activity was a challenge for her, so I sat with her and asked some guided questions like “Is this pencil longer or shorter than the ruler?” etc. to help her make a more informed educated guess.
Thursday : Ways to Make 10
I learned about this activity using the Mathlink Cubes on the same Measured Mom list as above, but the link didn’t work so I had to make my own printable. She is a bit slow with coloring, so she ended up coming up with all of the ways to make 10, but she didn’t color all of the boxes.
Friday : Graphing with M&Ms
My daughter LOVES M&Ms. To celebrate the end of our first week of homeschool, we did some candy math. I printed this printable from AtoZTeacherStuff.com, and she made a graph of her colors. The spaces on the printable are a bit too small for the M&Ms unfortunately, but it worked well enough.
After she did the graph, colored it, and of course ate the M&Ms, I taught her the word “graph,” and asked a bunch of more/less questions about her graph. She struggled a bit with the concept “How many more oranges do you have than yellows?” so that is something we will continue to work on in future lessons. This was a great activity for her.
What’s your favorite workbox activity for your lower elementary kids? Share in the comments!
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