The Homeschool Room
2012
Our house is slowly being fitted to meet our family needs – which for the next many years means room for homeschooling. I am thankful for the abundant space our house provides, which gives us the space to create our homeschool rooms throughout.
Perhaps one day it will work best to confine us to one table, in one room for all our homeschool needs. But for now it works best for all of us to be able to switch rooms from time to time.
Our homeschool rooms consist of: our dining room table, our school room/guest room, our living room and our sun room.
The spaces will continue to evolve as our schooling does, but for now here is a closer look at our homeschool rooms.
{Shirts are optional at our school}
The dining room offers the luxury of a huge table and several key organization pieces. It’s also right by the kitchen. In the above pictures you can faintly see the built in shelves behind the boys. This is home to many a book.
Below is piece I got for free at a yard sale – it sits near the table and holds writing and drawing paper, coloring books, work books, pattern blocks, a globe, and pencils, crayons, pens and markers.
The boys do all of their pattern block work at this table, some writing exercises, and we play many Uno games here with cups of tea to keep us company.
Our Official School Room {doubles as Guest Room}:
It’s labeled our “official” homeschool room – but we’re just as likely to be in any of the other homeschool rooms as we are to be in this one. This room has my office right off of it {a converted walk in closet} and also a bathroom – super handy for little boy bladders!
It also holds a boy sized table and chairs {above, with a map of the USA puzzle}, our main homeschool bookshelves {you can read more about the organization of the homeschool bookshelves here}, a smaller bookshelf that holds some manipulatives, a rocking chair, two bean bag chairs {for lounging} and a bed.
Oh the bed! Every homeschool room should have a bed. We spend a good bit of our read aloud time snuggled in the bed reading. It feels very un-schoolish.
The Living Room:
Home to Legos, trains, K’nex, a wide assortment of games, instruments, and couches. It is a lovely place to be creative {make messes} or cuddle up and read – or a little mix of both. The boys can quietly play while listening to an audio book or to me read.
The Sun Room:
A cheery room {with a leaky roof!} that is a landing space for all craft items – papers, markers, googley eyes, staplers, glue, scissors, string, play-dough, paints, pom-poms and an assortment of other random things. My Fall 2012 Jewelry Collection has come from this work table.
They very much enjoy crafting and this space is used daily – usually in unguided crafts, but occasionally I will walk them through something to teach them a skill or two for them to use in future crafts. Like how to cut out Olympic Rings. They are proficient in cutting out construction paper rings.
So! There it is – a quick tour of our homeschool rooms and how we will be using them this school year.
If you homeschool, do you have one homeschool room or several?
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Your spaces look wonderful.
Blessings, Dawn
Thanks
We have one room. There is a little tiny room off our bathroom we've always called "the nook" and used as storage space. I cleaned it all out, put down a nice rug, and somehow squeezed in a bookshelf and 3 desks (one for me) plus some small storage drawers. As the boys grow I don't know how well it will work, but for now it is fun! Oh, and all our crafts, etc are done at the kitchen table.
Oh "the nook" sounds SO cute!! I love little spaces
Love it! We also school in more than one room – keeps the creativity up and the wiggles down! You should link up with the ihomeschool network's not back to school blog hop – it's school room week! http://www.ihomeschoolnetwork.com/category/not-ba…
HA HA HA!! I love that you said shirts are optional. WE have four boys and most of the time — and in most pictures – there is no shirt near them. I suppose it is a boy thing. Glad to share in that dress code.
Thanks for sharing and Happy Homeschooling!
Love all of your learning areas. We do ours`all over too and love it. I do try to keep most of the supplies in one room though, just so they don't get lost.smilz I think schooling all over teaches kids that learning can happen any where.I also love the kids' coloring book you were sharing.