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Our Homeschool Room 2012-2013

Homeschool Room

Our Homeschool room has evolved greatly over the years.  Here’s a look back, for those of you who like to see how I got to where we are now.

  • Our first homeschool room {in a completely different and much smaller room}
  • Our first homeschool room, part 2
  • Our first schoolroom, the next year!
  • Our Preschool Set up in the old schoolroom
  • Our homeschool storage room; part 1, part 2
  • On our way to the NEW schoolroom {and how we acquired the space}!
  • Our Homeschool Room 2010-2011

Now, an updated view into our “new” schoolroom which we have now happily and GRATEFULLY used for 2 years!  This will be our 3rd year in this space and I am still so thankful for this amazing space!

Our schoolroom opens into our dining room, as you will see.  This is the view as you are walking in…Homeschool Room-0986

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This is taken from the back, looking towards the dining room…Homeschool Room-0984

 

I will take you through the room, with details about each of the main sections.  This is Ladybug’s Tot School area,  her desk is from Ikea {they no longer carry it}, she has this pocket chart hanging behind her desk for easy display of her Animal ABCs right now.  You can see her All About Reading Poster hanging on the wall, and her Ikea Trofast shelves and bins, which hold her rotated Tot School toys and tools.

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This is to the left of Ladybug’s desk area, it is where we store all of our favorite learning toys, and a few other random things.  We have 4 tall Trofast shelves put together, but the ones we have are not on their website anymore.  I am not sure if they still carry the exact ones we have at the store or not.  The easel is also from Ikea.  The red pocket chart behind the easel is where I store her upcoming units, we are almost done with Animal ABCs which is why it is mostly empty!

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Each bin is already labeled like this, or in the process of being labeled.  I copied the image from the product site or a Google search and printed them on cardstock, then laminated {no, I don’t have a printable to share, sorry}. This has been a wonderful addition, helping the kids remember all of the great stuff we have to play with!  The kids are allowed to access any of this at any time.

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This is our calendar/geography area.  We use Calendar Connections, although I didn’t update the Olympic cards from July, just left them there!  You can see our We Choose Virtues stuff, our Little Passports map, our dry erase board, and some storage things above {links on this page}. The puzzle map on the floor is this one.

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To the left of that area, is where I am now keeping our new Continent Box {on top of the shelf}.  The drawers in the Trofast shelf store various items for each kid, and our All About Reading, All About Spelling supplies.  Their lap trays {from Michaels} are stored to the right.

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This is Krash’s area, his desk is an old Ikea table donated to use by friends.  Homeschool Room-0934

The green drawers used to be his Workboxes, but we don’t use them anymore, I followed the lead of the child and he wasn’t digging them.  He likes his work better on a list to check off.  So now, he has some storage drawers, which he really needed since he drags things everywhere.  He has 3 random “toy” drawers {when upstairs toys migrate downstairs and he needs to clean up quickly, he puts them there.} The other drawers are labeled: money, junk, magazines, school supplies, pencils/markers/crayons, and words {his sight word cards for review}.

The colored bins on the top are from Target.  Fidgets are things for his little active self to hold when I need him to sit still.  They are random squishy things, mostly from the dollar store.  Krash isn’t diagnosed with anything, I just try different techniques to help him focus, he is VERY active and wiggly. Homeschool Room-0936

 

To the right of K’s desk area, is another storage area, where a variety of items are stored.  {links to bookshelf and ledges in this post}.  On the top are our ABC Soup cans, middle shelf are various books and our Draw, Write, Now set.  On the bottom shelf is our iPad plug in area, books, and our color sorted crayon area. The crayons are in these, also from Ikea.  On the floor is our All About Reading/Spelling board, which is used by Krash right now.  I also use this board to teach Pac anything that requires a board.

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To the right is a white bookshelf from Ikea, which stores our MANY books {well, part of them}.  See our book storage post here!  Near the top is where our Continent Boxes are stored, as well as a few math supplies.Homeschool Room-0946

This is Pac’s desk, links to specific items he has are in this post.  The shape string, added by him randomly one day.  He’s creative like that. I keep our red bean bag chair for when we sit and read back there, mostly with Pac for his science, & history.Homeschool Room-0927

New additions are the Target shoe shelf that now sits on top to sort out his school books.  His laptop is stored to the side unless he really needs it, I found it way too distracting last year when open on his desk at all times.  On his red magnetic board, he now has a daily routine pocket chart {got for $1 at Target years ago}.

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This is on the wall opposite of Pac’s desk, the door leads to our mud room/garage/outside the front of the house door.  Much on the wall isn’t school related, but more “front door” related.  We have books and other school supplies stored on the back shelf. In the white cabinet is our games, and other books.  The cabinet is from Ikea too, shocker {no clue what it’s called}.

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These are more learning tools, I moved them out of the homeschool storage room, so the kids could play with them more.  The boxes are from Target.

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I store office supplies like this, in the plastic Target bins.Homeschool Room-0960

This is a view of my desk from the back of the room {links and more about my desk here}.  The kick out portion of my desk is where the kids come to sit with me individually when they get their 1:1 instruction, or when they have computer time {we have a family desktop computer on the left.}Homeschool Room-0953

I have all sorts of things stored above my desk, my new recent favorites are these boxes from Target, they hold K and P’s school books that aren’t being used right now, but will be this year.  The current manuals and books stand to the right. Below hangs our daily routine {will share later}, and my calendar {also from Target}.Homeschool Room-0964

Hope you enjoyed the little {well, big} tour of our homeschool room.  If you saw something I didn’t link to or share about and you are curious, check the comments below to see if someone else already asked, and if not, leave me a comment and I will share more!


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I tried explain these friends to my daughter last I tried explain these friends to my daughter last night. It was hard to find words. 

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Love y’all beyond words and missed those of you who weren’t there last night. ❤️
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My Fern is so beautiful. Still my favorite cat eve My Fern is so beautiful. Still my favorite cat ever. And that’s saying a lot!

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It was an awesome day of gymnastics! We are in Tex It was an awesome day of gymnastics! We are in Texas for a big meet. We have been here many times but this is the first time he won! 1st All Around, and 1st on floor, pommel, and high bar! He was a part of the NC Elite Team, they won 1st place team also. He hit all time high scores for all around and floor! We head to state championships in a few weeks for his next meet!

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Homeschool writing class with Fern. Always a fabul Homeschool writing class with Fern. Always a fabulous teacher. Not distracting at all. 

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Yes, we still walk our cat in a stroller. Mabel ev Yes, we still walk our cat in a stroller. Mabel even posed for the picture. Our other cats go in the stroller sometimes too, Mabel is the frequent stroller-er.

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