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Mary Fifer
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Posted: Feb 14 2011 at 9:04am \| IP Logged

Vanessa, you did such a beautiful job with your clipboards! The corners are all round and the edges square. I love the idea of tying the pen to the clipboard.

I need to go find the clipboard thread from which this is a spinoff.

I've used the box sort of clipboards (for about $6-7) for years. I keep the little ones' catechism, phonogram chart, and Math tables are in there for handy review. This way my PDFs and their work do not get so torn and wrinkled. (We learned to copy the Math tables onto card stock.)

When we are reading, I keep the clipboard in my lap and write down the words on which they stumble for them to copy three times before they re-read the selection again. This has been an awesome relief from pressure on me to have them read better and it motivates them to try harder since they'll have less to write!

I generally keep these stood next to my place on the couch for easy reach, yet now that our youngest is 7 we don't have so much trouble with Mom being unable to get away from nursing or holding baby.

When we put a little pillow in our lap we have an instant lap desk especially since the pentel (God bless the inventor of cheap working mechanical pencils) and erasers fit inside with the review charts and their current work.

We hole punch extra worksheets to put in binders, but most of that work is done at the table for better handwriting...

I'm searching the forum for clipboard and hope to find it. These clipboard boxes have been a dream!

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Posted: Feb 14 2011 at 9:42am \| IP Logged

Mom's Toolbox

This is the thread the topic spun off; Mom's Toolbox. It is still on the first page.

Thanks for the compliment! I just made 8 more to give as birthday gifts this week. I relaxed the paper with water, a bit trickier at first, but a lot smoother result. I must have been using much thinner paper, because I only needed to quick dip the paper, any longer and the paper started to fall apart....

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Posted: Feb 14 2011 at 10:13am \| IP Logged

I wonder if it would be possible to be-utify this box sort of clipboard? I see where they would be useful. The only ones like this at our local Staples are kind of an unnattractive gray-blue, so I passed them by.

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Mary Fifer
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Posted: Feb 14 2011 at 12:03pm \| IP Logged

Thanks Vanessa.

I went to another one that was 4 pages and had to quit for school. They are writing and setting the table for lunch right now.

The compliments are well deserved - especially when you consider the time necessary to make the projects. The gift idea is a great idea, too.

I'll bet it would be tricky because the ones I have are the sort of flexible plastic that does not seem to accept adhesive well. Years ago we had the plastic boards that break when stepped upon which would accept adhesives. Slowly we have replaced them with the boxes since they store so much - the ribbon tie is still a great idea - for the pentel and the eraser!

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