Mini Office

Have you heard of these ?  I discovered them the other day and decided to give it a try. 

The basic idea is that each student has a manilla folder containing their personal office.  Inside the folder you place the items that the student needs help with regularly or lists you want your student to memorize such as an address or phone number.  I have made Sir N's office with items he will be using over the next few years. Once your office is complete you can laminate it to last longer.

Here are a few sites with ideas and pages you can download.

• Expanding the mini office by Jimmie
• Mrs Meacham's Mini Office Snapshots
• Home School Creations Mini Office how to
• A pdf file containing some printables for a Mini Office
• Mini Office 123
• Homeschool Creations PDF for a mini office
• 3 file folder mini office directions

Blessings

The perfect church service

"The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.
But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshiping.....

'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god"
C.S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

Read this at church today and was quite impacted by these words.

Ballet, Lego & Gardens

Today we caught the train and went into Melbourne central.  We started at the Art Centre where we went to see an edu ballet session titled The Baron and the Widow which was a 60 min narrated performance with exerpts from The Merry Widow ballet.
 It was so beautiful inside, red velvet and polished brass.  The curtains on the stage were a rich red with a gold picture frame.  The stage scenes were so beautifully rich.  Unfortunately no camera's allowed :(  The costumes of the ballet dancers were gorgeous. I wanted to know what do you call the male lead ballet dancer ?  A Danseur.

The Arts Centre - Melbourne Australia

After this Sir N and I joined another family and went to the gardens accross the road for a picnic lunch.

From here we walked accross the road and had a look at the glass wall with water flowing down it at the National Gallery of Victoria.

 We then walked to Federation Square and had a look around.

The Art of the Brick Exhibition

Built by Ryan McNaught approx 172 500 pieces.

By Aaron Amanetkis Approx 15 000 pieces
Won 1st place at Brickvention 2007 for the best in show.

We had a wonderful day out exploring the sights and sounds of Melbourne.