Our classroom

By megret | August 21, 2010 at 10:46 am | 3 comments | Learning and doing

We’re so thankful to have a lower den that is big enough to accommodate a homeschool classroom! We painted it a warmer color this summer and painted the dark stained trim white. The furniture is a mix-mash of furniture intended for kids’ rooms and “grown up furniture.”

Two unmatched desks sit facing each other right beside the window. This allows the kids to share art supplies when they’ll be working together, as well as saves space!

The drawer-filled cart behind the desks is a CSN Stores purchase. It holds all of our construction paper, drawing paper, handwriting paper, and watercolor paper.

We have a corner for hanging charts, a classroom addition I decided we needed to make a necessity this year. Above the one on the right will be a cork board for hanging up artwork.

I tried to keep subjects separated, to create “centers” in a way, but can’t quite make things fit together in the right way. Some more rearranging may be in the future. Here is a combo shelf for math and reading/phonics items.

There’s another cubby shelf for science/history/geography items. The kids’ “cubbies” are also in this shelf. I’m especially excited about being able to fit subject-themed books on the shelves….one extra shelf moved in gave us room enough for those this year.

So that’s it!
We’re super excited.
The rest of my weekend is going to be filled with lesson planning.

I will be blogging the kids’ homeschooling progress on their own, private, password-protected blogs, shared with family only. (This is a terrific idea/tip I learned via a speaker at last week’s HOTM Conference!)