Mini-Offices

A couple of weeks ago we made Mini-Offices. They are file folders glued together (like a lapbook) and filled with information or reference charts for your child to have when doing their schoolwork. 

We don’t have lots of wall space in our school room to put up lots of maps, graphs, and charts that you may see on the walls in a school room so the mini offices puts all that info right at the child's fingertips.  It helps to promote independence too.  Instead of, “MAMA! how do you spell _____?” Or “MAMA! How many feet are in a mile?”, I can tell them to check their mini office.

Each mini office is made according to each child’s grade and what they need to know.  The kids love these nifty little lapbooks and of course I love anything that simplifies my life!

  This is Poppet’s mini office.

Poppet has phonics info, months of the year, days of weeks, money, shapes, and a map of the U.S. on the back as well as a few other things.

   

For my boys we broke it up into sections: math, language, and history/geography. The content varies according to what they are doing in these subjects this year.