So, we recently added Waiting Stations ( inspired by this blog) to our school day! These are the places the kiddo’s can go while waiting for me. They are hugely successful thus far!

A Tanagram type game:

The Geoboard:

A craft/art activity:

Ziah doing a waiting station that involves her learning even and odd numbers:

Taejan using his Lauri Stacking Pegs at one of his waiting stations:

Another new addition to the day are these little boxes. I fill them up with items based on a certain topic..

Taejan’s for the week is to work on his fine motor skills..so we have screws,washers and nuts to work with:

working very diligently on them:

Jadziah’s is foam shapes with some small cups..she can sort them by shape, color, size..whatever:(she’s very tactile so this is perfect for her)

Declan’s has a spring scale, a tape measure and a cylinder for measuring with along with a notebook to record all his work:

now shhhh..they have been doing these before and after normal schoolwork of their own accord..no one tell them they are learning while doing it ok? It would so make them want to do them less…LOL