Math Mini-Office Pictures

Math Mini-Office

Math Mini-Office - the links I used

As promised, these are the sites that I found the most helpful:
Proverbs 22:6 Academy -- detailed directions, along with the list of what's included and resources.
Mrs Jessop Teachers' Notes -- the divisibility rules poem and other stuff.
BBC Bitesize Math - data analysis resources
Kids Online - decimals
Fraction Operations Rules
Fraction Operations Rules, page 2
Math Is Fun - parts of a circle
BBC Bitesize Math - shapes

Math Mini-Office Documents

It was more difficult than I thought it would be to find exactly what I was looking for, so I ended up creating some documents from scratch. Maybe they will help others who would like to make a mini-office for their children. Here is what our mini-office covers:
Basic Operation & Order of Operations
Multiplication Table (and an example of a couple multiplication problems that have a zero in them)
Divisibility Rules (and an example of a division problem with a zero in its quotient)
Data Analysis
Place Value
Decimals (Examples of operations with them)
Fractions
Types of polygons and 3-D shapes
Types of Triangles
Types of Symmetry (also in my earlier post)
Types of Lines
Congruent vs. Similar
Parts of a Circle

Here is a layout we used. I used PrimoPDF to be able to upload the document, and for the life of me I can't figure out how to change the page orientation and make it permanent. If you know how, please leave a comment!

Math Mini-Office Layout

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Here are some graphics I used, including the Area/Perimeter information I put together for this mini-office:

Math Mini-Office Selected Graphics

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I'm still working on the pictures of the finished mini-office. I will also post some links to sites that I found particularly helpful.

Beethoven Lapbook

Beethoven Lapbook


This lapbook is based on another story by Anna Celenza, called The Heroic Symphony. It was not as easily accessible for an 8-year-old, but it provided nice exposure for her, and for me!

Mussorgsky Lapbook

A couple years ago we did a lapbook on Mussorgsky. I dug it out the other day and looked through it again with great pleasure. It is based on a book Pictures at an Exhibition by Anna Harwell Celenza. Instead of sending you to Amazon, I've linked it to the publisher's site which includes the author's note about the book. If you have not read this book (or other titles by this author), please do -- they are wonderful. We have made a couple lapbooks based on her stories, and this is one of them. We took our time. I made sure we listened to the piece as a whole, but also that we spent time listening to one part at a time, and to help with that, I asked my daughter to draw pictures - one every couple days, maybe even one a week - to illustrate each movement of this piece. Here is the finished product.




Mussorgsky Lapbook

If you decide to listen to this music and talk about it, make sure you find Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - A Naxos Musical Journey. We got it at Netflix. If you do, it might help if you have a list at hand with the names of all the movements, because even though the video images are stunning and very well matched to the music, if I remember correctly, there are no explanations even the form of a title of each movement - except for the title page of Mussorgsky's music sheets. I remember having to pause and rewind a lot not to miss stuff.

SlideShare

Having to explore a couple sites for my work, I actually found something I could use in homeschooling. SlideShare is like Scribd for PowerPoints. As an exercise, I was supposed to "embed" a presentation that I liked here, and since we are doing the Ancient World, here is a presentation about Theater in Ancient Egypt.

Ancient Egyptian Theatre

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: theatre history)

It is beautifully done and it inspired me to try and work on a Power Point Presentation with my 8 year-old. I'll be sure to add it to SlideShare when we are done.