I wasnt too sure at first if I wanted a whiteboard to me it smacked of school and I was trying to walk away from those practices. In the end Im glad we put one in the family room. It gets used for brainstorming, planning, explaining things and the kids love drawing on it.
Sometimes we come up with some great words, or illustration and we want to keep it but it is arduous having to retype it or redraw it how we wished we knew we were going to do such good work and we would have done it on paper!!
What works for us is we take a photo of our whiteboard. We then have a permanent record of the work we have done.
Reminding ourselves of 5 kinds of Hard Things from "Do Hard Things" by Brett and Alex Harris
I loved having a white board… and a pin board. Yes it gets cluttered up with all sorts of stuff but it’s real and functioning and practical. 🙂
I love our whiteboard!! It’s been so much fun to describe things – such as explaining our computer network system and comparing the size of our feet – and to doodle on, write reminders on, magnet invites on, hold lessons with, and share thoughts, quotes or messages on. I think a favourite memory for us kids has been writing “Happy xx birthday xxxxx!!!!!!!” in different colours after the birthday person has gone to sleep, as a’ surprise’-tradition. The memories!