There isn't a blog yet that I have looked at that has not had a comment on Workboxes and mine will be no different!  I took a long time, looking, reading, learning, thinking about workboxes and how they may or may not work for my family.  After all that thinking I decided it could work for us, but not how written.

Here are our Family Workboxes.

And this is how we use them.

• We have 1 set of boxes for Ethany and Xavier to use.
• Each box is loaded with 2 activities, one for each child.  A lot of the curriculums we use are teacher driven so in every box someone is working with me while the other is working independently.
• We move on to the next box when everyone is finished which means that the person not working with me is usually working on something open ended to allow that flexibility of time. 
• We are only working 7 boxes, in the pic you can see above we were almost through our day.

The main reason I feel that workboxes actually work is that everything is carefully planned out and everything is on hand ready to go.  Previously if we were having a busy day it was easy to push school to the side because it meant getting things out and ready and working out what the other children would do while I worked with one.  Now everything is ready to go, so if we have to go out, we work until ready to leave and then when we get back it is still there all ready to go and we just move on to the next box.

Workboxes are awesome and helping our day to stay relaxed but organised.