I made these for my children about two years ago. They are wonderful and come in handy on a regular basis. They are excellent to put up on the table when the children are being easily distracted with each other. To make them a little more "welcoming" for my kids, I put their favorite characters on the covers and throughout the inside by using stickers, ect.
If you plan to make one or two of these, my advice is to make sure the information that is used inside of them, matches whatever curriculum you use. For my older children's Writing Office, I looked through their L.A. curriculum, copied the needed pages and replaced it with whatever was suggested on the website.
My daughter is now in the 7th grade, so I tweaked her offices to make them fit her needs, especially in the area of math. For her's I put in the formulas of finding the area of different shapes, along with the volume & total surface area formulas. One thing she really needed help with was Measurements, so that was definitely included.
Someone from my church laminated all of them for me. (Thanks, Chris) Free of Charge!!!
To explain the pics below: I have the front cover, followed by a pic of the entire office on one side, (sometimes there are pics of the back side, if I used them), then a pic of each section. I'm sorry some have a light from the flash on my camera. On some of the covers you will see a white blob- it's where my children's names are at and I purposely blobbed it for privacy reasons.
Oh! I purposely made the pics big so they could be seen.
Hope you enjoy!
If you have any questions, email me!
Here are some links along with printable templates:
Teaching Heart's, Busy Teacher's Cafe, K-2 Printables
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July 25, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Tia Linschied
Senior Editor of HSB