My students are more likely to work at their 3 drawer work system when they know they are working towards a desired item or activity. The next step to implementing a successful 3 drawer work system in the classroom is to make sure reinforcement is available to students. Here is an example of a choice board with removable icons. If your students need more errorless learning tasks, you can easily make your own task boxes with materials you already have: (affiliate link)įor access to free matching and sorting task boxes, join the Simply Free Library here ( over 70 free downloads perfect for task boxes). If your students are ready for them, you can use purchased task boxes that fit into a photo storage container. Task boxes are a great way to work on fine motor in a fun and engaging way! (read about setting up task boxes in this blog post) The final activity we use to promote independence with the 3 drawer work system in my classroom is task boxes. Task boxes in picture are from Especially education. We always put task boxes or fine motor tasks in drawer three. Drawer 3: Task Boxes Here is an example of an academic task box. Simply Special Ed’s tracing binder and tracing books are great resources ideas for this drawer. If you have never heard of dry erase crayons, check them out! Dry erase crayons give better tactile feedback when writing and students can’t draw on themselves with them (if you know, you know)! If you have students who are not independent with any writing or tracing activities consider using coloring sheets or another appropriate fine motor activity that can be done independently.Īdditionally, to save on paper materials, we laminate papers and give dry erase crayons to the students. My students typically are working on tracing their name, alphabet, shapes, or lines. I have magazine holders on a shelf to hold those types of workbooks.We always put writing/tracing/or coloring activities in drawer two.Ī second practical way for students to practice independence with the 3 drawer work system is with writing activities. Since you have cursive, spelling, books and other things that don’t lend themselves to tearing out, I think you can have a binder and the work box, especially if the work box system is what you’re daughters used to doing. My other son loves this system because the week’s work is in bite size chunks, and it really calmed him to go through his folders every week to know exactly what was expected of him. This was all for his independent work, and even at the age of 6 he could do his homework on his own. The pouch has two pockets: one for math manipulative, the other for pencils, sharpener, and timer (he loves speed drives) The weekly folder housed something we’re working on this week (packet off maps, lit guide and book, etc) it varied. Right pocket was marked “done” slide his finished worksheet here He never had more than 5 worksheets any day. Left pocket of each folder was marked “to do” and held 2 math sheets, one phonics, some days a different LA sheet. Wrote days of the week on each respective folder, last one titled “weekly” six folders, hole punched and put in binder I am a first year MP user, but here’s what I did and plan to do this year: I want for my daughter to be able to easily see where items go and what she should do. I do not want to frustrate her by allowing her work space or her assignments to be messy or confusing. We have four days per week that are full instruction days, then she has two days in which to practice skills and do work that is appropriate to be done independently (such as Core Skills work books from 1st grade that we have never done, tracing letters, scissor skills work, or Bible coloring sheets). However, then books would always go in the drawer, rather than that day's independent work going in the drawer. I could just use her work box cart to sort her workbooks. I have her school supplies organized and laid out in her desk she would have to just put her books on top of her supplies- that is not ideal in my mind. That would be simple, but I think it would be a mess. She does have a desk for independent work that she could store her books in. I need to have my daughter's MP 2nd grade workbooks where she can easily find them and easily put them away. Of course, these activities have been things that were appropriate for independent work, and much of MP 2nd grade is not independent work. This has given my eight-year-old the opportunity to have her independent work handy but organized. So far I have generally assigned one subject per drawer, and I have only put the items needed that day in the drawer. We have been using a work box system for a few years. I am trying to figure out where to put my daughter's workbook and how to organize them.
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