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Step By Step, Piece by Piece: Mini-Offices

The mini-office concept was started in public school by a teacher that was having trouble with kids focusing. So she took some legal size file folders and created a small cubicle for each student. But that didn’t solve the problem at all. The true problem was that instead of not focusing-they were asking each other...

Step by Step, Piece by Piece – Notebooking

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Last month we took some time to learn how to piece together mini-books for Lapbooking. This month we will take a look at how to piece together Notebook pages. But first what is Notebooking?? Notebooking is another form of creative studying. It involves taking a sheet of paper and basically making a scrapbook out of what your...

Hands-On Learning

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It seems like such a simple concept. As babies, our children learned everything by touch. They picked things up, put it in their mouths, and rubbed it against their skins. Even board books came with plush and other materials to encourage children to feel and learn. As our children grew older, they learned by their other...

Step By Step, Piece by Piece

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Don’t you just love all the pieces that we find put together for lapbooks? How about all those wonderful pages for notebooking? Oh and then there are mini-offices! There are so many different types of worksheets out there. But unless you have an unprecedented amount of time to search the web, you may decide that these items...