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
What a great idea! Thanks for sharing this, I think I'm going to try it out.
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I saw your post about office lapbooks on Yahoo group! I love your Daniel verse in the header. I LOVE that verse. It's a great one to claim for our young students! (I always did when I was in school.)
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I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!! Thank you sooo much for visiting mine, & for leaving a sweet sweet message! :) I absolutely did add you as a friend! You have great ideas... I'll definitely be back... over & over...lol....
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Love & Hugs...
Missy
Great idea!!!!!! You could have your own home business, making and selling them.
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Missy,
ReplyDeleteWow! I just love those! What a great idea. Thank you so much for sharing them. I am off to try them out.
BTW, I love what you've done to your blog. Your header is too cute!
Have a great day!
Blessings,
Amy Beth <><
I love you mini office lapbooks. I am new to weaver and found your blog. I would love your resources on how you made them. I am also new to lapbooking but can't wait to get started. If you could send me the resources to make your mini writing and math lapbook for you younger elementary students I would be forever greatful.
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Kim