Our Homeschool Room (or rooms)

This week is School Room Week on the Not Back to School Blog Hop.  In our case, we have school rooms.  Believe me, I have tried to condense all of our school stuff into one room…I have reorganized books, moved shelves, but neither our school stuff, nor us can stay in just one room :)

First up is our main school room (this was labeled a dining room in our house plans, but it hasn’t seen a dining room table for many years). 

We have three bookshelves in this room right now.  The first bookshelf is where I keep the books that we are currently using (history, read-alouds, science, readers, etc.) .  The second bookshelf holds preschool items (toys, games, books) and miscellaneous reference items.  The third shelf houses our nature supplies and nature finds, favorite picture books, and more readers.

In this room I have also created a calendar/morning time area.  Most of the items in this area were inspired by Jolanthe at Homeschool Creations.

In another corner of the room we have a little table where I keep drawing and writing supplies.Moving on to the living room…dh recently set up a little computer nook in one corner, now I can have one or two kiddos working on a computer game {educational of course ;)} while I work with another kiddo at the kitchen table (right next to the living room) ~ and I can supervise them all at the same time!  If you take another look at the close-up of our computer area, you’ll see that the kiddos have already made this space their own :) 

And in our basement I have set up workboxes and desks for the two older kiddos…and a table with art and writing supplies at the ready.

I even set up a little area for ds3 (he refuses to be left out)…I am still looking for a little table for this space…

My dh knows how much I LOVE bookshelves, so when we finished our basement, him and his dad built bookshelves along one entire wall {I really love that guy :)}…I use these shelves to store our games, lego sets, building blocks, puzzles, reference books, next year’s curriculum, anything that I want to have easily accessible for learning.

I could also add a picture of our kitchen table (where the kiddos do math while I am preparing lunch), our living room couch (where we enjoy many read-aloud sessions), the living room rocking chair (where I snuggle with individual kiddos for their “read to mom” sessions)…I could probably take a picture of just about every room in our house~but I won’t :)

I hope you enjoyed this peek into our school rooms…be sure to check out more school rooms at the Not Back to School Blog Hop!