Note ~ there is a video tour at the end of this post!
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
- Our Homeschool Room 2012-2013
Now, an updated view into our “new” schoolroom which we have now happily and GRATEFULLY used for 3 years! This will be our 4th year in this room and I am still so thankful for this amazing space!
I do not think everyone needs a specific homeschool room, nor one this large. Many families enjoy schooling all over the house and not having a designated room. Some aren’t able to have a designated room, or have a very small area. I don’t think it matters at all! We were blessed with this amazingly large space and I am forever grateful for it. It fits my personality perfectly and feels a bit like God reached down and gave me just the perfect “I love you” gift.
Our schoolroom opens into our dining room, as you will see. This is the view as you are walking in…
I will take you through the room, with details about each of the main sections.
This is the front left corner, which has a little play area, our large US wall map {no clue where it’s from, it was a generous hand me down gift}, and our movement area.
I repurposed an old shelf and created a little play area for the kids. It is also used for Ladybug’s theme work display if we have a theme going on.
This is our movement area, the basket in the corner is filled with all sorts of PE type things, they mostly enjoy the jump ropes! We also have an exercise ball, but have to keep it up since the cat likes to claw it! The kids LOVE the trampoline, it is a fabulous addition as of last year for helping with the wiggles. The things on the left are called paralettes and are for working parallel bar skills {for Krash who is on a boy’s gymnastics team}.
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.
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.
This is Ladybug’s current learning area, the shot was taken right before school started this year…
Items you see: Large Pocket Chart, blue calendar, red weather calendar{similar}, cork boards, Trofast shelf, Trofast drawers. Desk is from Ikea, but it is no longer carried.
Below is a new shelf repurposed from another part of the house. I wanted all of our Bibles in the schoolroom next to the beanbag {Ahh Prods}, and a place for our essential oil diffuser! I also made the bottom shelf for Ladybug, to put her letter focused activities on.
I reworked this area below into a writing/drawing area, but the kids have largely ignored it so far. The basket is filled with different scrap paper, our drawing books are on top, and different coloring books, activity pads, blank pads, etc. are in the drawers.
This is Krash’s area, his desk is an old Ikea table donated to use by friends. His is the brown chair {Ladybug’s desk is right net to his with the red chair}
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.
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}. You can see much of our All About Spelling and Reading items on the shelves. The crayons are in these, also from Ikea. On the top of the shelf with drawers and the bottom book ledge is our current continent study materials.
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.
This is Pac’s desk, links to specific items he has are in this post. New this year is an additional shoe shelf {from Target} for his textbooks.
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}.
These are more learning tools, Spielgaben on top, phonics drawers on bottom along with learning supplies we use often {green boxes are from Target}.
I store office supplies like this, in the plastic Target bins.
This is a view of my desk from the front 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}.
Beyond thrilled that Target dollar Spot allowed me to refresh the look of my desk for SUPER cheap! All of those nice new orange and pink bins are new!
For those of you who are super interested, I made you a video tour! I consolidated as much as possible but I still blabber a bit, so it is about 9 minutes long!