Archive for December, 2005

Mini-Office resources

December 30th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Since so many people have asked where I got the resources for my mini-offices, I thought I’d share them in a separate post. My original mini-office posting can be found here.
This information was initially part of my response to an email request from someone on the Lapbooking Yahoogroup:
The prepositions listing originally came from Donna Young’s [...]

History Record Books

December 30th, 2005 | 1 Comment

I decided to post some photos after reading some discussion on the K12users list regarding history record books. The pics are below. Maybe this will prompt other people to share their history record books! I love seeing what other people are doing, and mooching their ideas! One person on the list (Joyce) had a GREAT [...]

Fifth grade mini-office

December 19th, 2005 | 21 Comments

A “mini-office” is like a little study corral. I discovered them after seeing some kindergarten teachers talking about them on one of my email lists. After looking at some samples online, I decided that the idea was clever, inexpensive and easy enough to adapt to older children. Also, since my kids will likely end up [...]

Master Plan

December 19th, 2005 | No Comments

I never realized how hard it would be to create an assignment schedule for the kids that would be easy enough for someone else (Grandma, Dad, etc.) to follow. When the baby comes, the kids will still need to be doing schoolwork, since they’re enrolled in a public CA charter school. Our advisor is wonderful, [...]