Schoolroom

I wasn't going to do a "schoolroom" but since we moved, homeschooling all over the house hasn't worked the same way that it did at the other house. Although this house is double the size of our other one, the floor plan is a lot more closed off. At the old house, we did workbooks at the kitchen bar, or dining room table, or sometimes in the basement with bean bag chairs and lap desks. At this house, though, there really isn't room for us all in the dining room, especially once the baby comes.

So this is the room that we decided would be the best schoolroom:

This is where I play bartender (I mean teacher).

I store all the school supplies in old diaper wipe containers...(crayons, glue, markers, etc.) In the organizing of this room, I discovered that I collect school supplies, and that I probably have enough for an entire kindergarten class.

On this shelf, I put the stuff that we use on a daily basis. The readers and read aloud books are still upstairs, but the math book, science stuff, and language arts stay down here. The other materials are stored underneath the bar....

Cricut: A homeschooler's best friend

A map and our "calendar" station. Right now, I'm having Nathan write in each day and the weather of that day. I have Becca count the days and sing our "days of the week" song and we talk about the month. I want to make this a little more fancy, but this works for right now. Maybe I'll get motivated with my cricut.

There are a few "mirrored walls" in this house, and they work great as dry-erase boards. This did say "Welcome to School, Nathan and Becca" but then the kids discovered that they could write on it too...so this is how it turned out. =)

This is what is all over the floor...for now....but when the baby comes, the Geotrax are going to be evicted to another part of the basement. The baby will need a spot in the school room too.