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Welcome to Mini Office 101. What's a mini-office,
you ask? Essentially it's a one-stop place for all
those essentials that the kids might need while
working on their school work. They can prop it up
and find quick answers to some of their common
questions.

It's seriously easy - it just might take a little time
on your part, but I promise this is a simple thing
to do at night while watching your favorite tv
show ~ or maybe watching your husband folding
laundry.
Our Mini Office Lapbooks
Print off as many {or as
few} of the printables as
you would like ~ it's
your mini-office!
Quick tip

Laminating your mini office
is key to its survival
throughout the school
year. It will get plenty of
use and will otherwise
show wear quickly. If you
don't have a place locally
that can laminate, you can
also use contact paper.
Materials needed:

  • 1-5 office file folders (depends on
    how big you want it to be)
  • worksheets you've printed off or
    created
  • glue sticks
  • contact paper (I took mine to a local
    teaching store and had all four I
    made laminated for around $6).

Putting it all together:

  • Glue your file folders together side
    by side, overlapping one side of
    each. Be sure that the folders can
    still fold up inside each other (i.e.
    don't put them together too closely).
  • Print off the worksheets and things
    that you want to put into your office
    and place them where you want
    them. I had one side more focused
    on reading / writing things and the
    other one more math / science /
    geography related.
  • Glue your charts and worksheets in
    with glue sticks and then laminate.
Each of our children is studying different things ~ some are learning to print, others cursive. Based
on the age of your child, you will need to adapt the material that you put into your mini office. We
color-coded ours to tell them apart. Here are some of the things that we used in our mini offices.
Zachary's Preschool mini office
if fairly basic. It is just one
folder filled with the following:

  • Left/Right hands
  • Shapes
  • Paper money and coins
  • Months of the year
  • Colors and color words
  • Counting to 20 and
    number words
  • Alphabet chart
  • Short and Long vowels
Some other Great Resources
Putting it Together
abc teach ~ includes a pdf file you can download showing step by step
directions on how to put the folders together

Squidoo - links and more picture of other mini-offices. Jimmie {as always} does
a great job!

Teaching Heart ~ some more great examples

Busy Teachers Cafe ~  a little bit of everthing

Reagan Kinderbears ~ more examples of mini offices and printables

Books of the Bible
Mini Office by Grade Levels
The 3rd Grade mini office used
four file folders glued back to
back. This one had different
math/language information
than the second grade mini
office.

  • Books of the Old & New
    Testament
  • Cursive chart {A Beka}
  • Writing checklist
  • Short & long vowels
  • World map and
    continents/ocean song
    word
  • Fraction circles
  • Coin and paper currency
    charts
  • Math symbols & words
  • Multiplication chart
  • Division chart
  • Number chart: includes
    roman numerals, ordinal
    numbers and skip counting
  • "Gallon Man" - cups, pints,
    quarts, gallon
  • How to tell time chart
  • Thermometer
  • Punctuation
  • How to write a paragraph
  • Story words: beginning,
    middle, and ending
    examples
  • Numbers words in English
    and Spanish
  • Number chart to 100
  • Shapes, colors, days of
    week, months, US
Our 2nd Grade mini office used
four file folders glued back to
back. This one was similar to
the 3rd grade one, with a few
differences in math and
language information.

  • Books of the Old & New
    Testament
  • Cursive chart {A Beka}
  • Writing checklist
  • Short & long vowels
  • World map and
    continents/ocean song
    word
  • Fraction circles
  • Coin and paper currency
    charts
  • Math symbols & words
  • Addition chart
  • Subtraction chart
  • Number chart: includes
    roman numerals, ordinal
    numbers and skip counting
  • Telling time along with time
    words
  • "Gallon Man" - cups, pints,
    quarts, gallon
  • Thermometer
  • Punctuation
  • Story words: beginning,
    middle, and ending
    examples
  • Numbers words in English
    and Spanish
  • Number chart to 100
  • Shapes, colors, days of
    week, months, US map
Mini Office Printables
Links to some of the printables we used in our mini office are listed at the bottom of this page, but
these are a few that I made to put in our mini offices  ~ a cover page, thermometers, words to the
continent song that we know, and charts of paper currency {front/back}. All of the below pages are
included in the My Mini-Office pdf.