St. Andrew’s Home School

Specifically, the United States and the growing State Card Bank. As TOG suggests creating a bank of cards with state info on them I have created our own version. I liked the cards that come in the curriculum for copying, but for two things: 1) they were an odd size and I wanted them to be an easy 4×6 inch standard so that it would be easy to laminate with some prefab laminate cards and 2) I wanted to add the state capital on the list. I am not sure why TOG does not have this on there. I know that these have changed for some states throughout the years, but so have the flags.

Here is a photo of the front of the cards (blurred and bad angle and a glare, sorry). I did a quick mock-up for example.

Here is a photo of the back of the cards (also blurred and bad angle and a glare, sorry. again.)

I spent some time playing around in Publisher or Photoshop (whichever I was in the mood for at the time) and created our own version of these cards. I saved them as PDFs so that they could easily be shared here and printing them would be easy too. I have two versions of the cards. My girls wanted a nicer smooth looking card so I made some with rounded corners and then some standard square cornered cards. Both measure 4×6 and fit nicely in the prefab laminate pouches that can be found at most office supply stores; I think I have seen these at Wal*mart and at Target as well.
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I just wanted to get on here and offer an apology to all the TOG Blogroll users. Back in mid-July my computer crashed and I had to mail it off to have it fixed. I was without my computer and all my files, contacts, and info for about two weeks. Right about the time I got my computer back, but before I got all my files reinstalled and back up I witnessed the first signs of miscarrying our baby.

I am making no excuses, but I did want to explain why I have not been responding to the requests for changes and joining the blogroll. I am just now crawling out from under the deep fog in which I have been living. This has been more difficult than I ever could have imagined. I am slowly getting my brain functioning again and all my files and e-mails restored. I know I am not the only one who has ever suffered through a loss like this, but it has been a very dark and lonely place.

I just wanted to reassure everyone that I was going to get to all those e-mails and files throughout this week. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

p.s. - if anyone would like to read about this journey you can start here (or here).