Our first schoolroom 2009
Was located in our “breakfast room”. Problem-too small.
Our schoolroom this year
Moved to the dining room. Problem-stuff spilling into living room, and old schoolroom.
New schoolroom
The old playroom. A giant open room upstairs that was cold, uninviting, and usually off limits because the kids liked to trash it.
In my last post I showed the painting. :) So warm and inviting up here. Thanks honey!
One of my favorite things in the room! These balloons we found over the summer when we visited Rick’s mom and dad in Mississippi. The time we actually made it. The numbers only went to 6. Perfect!
We moved an old table we had long since lost chairs for, bought new chairs and I made some tooshie cushions for them.
We moved the white bookcases in from the first classroom for supplies, and currently not used curriculum.
These black bookcases are from the dining room classroom, and hold our current books, binders and curriculum not in the kids personal drawers.
Here you can see the two glass desks and cool green chairs from Walmart. They give the older two a personal desk space from the younger kids, and computers for their Teaching Textbooks math program.
The kids made some art for our new room the other day, with the room colors as a theme. Hannah’s desk has an orange lamp (above) and Christian’s has a green one (below).
Printer needs a new home..it’s wireless.
Our calendar, storage cabinet and drawers for curriculum.
Our reading nook. *sigh* I love it!
I started with this orange and green theme in mind, and then found this perfect fabric at Walmart to make a pillow for my orange chair, and hopefully a valance for the one window. The pillow has apples and cupcakes and cherries on it. The “art” above the chair is a Samantha original, featuring our new Bible motto. I only have the Bible reference there, as I want us all to know it by heart.
“The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.”
Our little nook houses the play kitchen, colorful and retro, from a few years back for Christmas.
New toy storage. Cubicals from Amazon, 2 sets, with the bins from Target. Target also has the cubicals, but Amazon had free shipping. I have a Target nowhere around here. The bins were cheaper at Target.com. Tonight I will be making laminated tags for easy sorting, as the bins each have a separate kind of toy in them. (I’ll update later.)
What do you think? We are so happy about the move, and are loving the room! We have already found ourselves coming up here when school is over as a family. We’re very pleased with the end result!
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Sam Kelley
Wife to one and mom to six. I love my Lord, my family, organizing and fitness. I'm a homeschooler who takes pictures obsessively. I love good tea. I don't eat meat.
Love your new school room! You have inspired me to get organized! I ordered the pocket calendar today and started chatting with my Hubby on how we can change our playroom into a school room.
Thank you for all of the great ideas! I love your blog!
We love that calendar! Enjoy your organization, it is one of my favorite things!
I LOVE, LOVE this room!!! We have a loft also in our house and this has inspired me to try to copy some of the ideas here! I just started homeschooling this year for the first time ever and will be working with my 11 year old and 7 year old.
I gotta get organized!!
Where did you get the blue calendar? I Love it!!
Thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks! Here is the link for the chart-it has held up wonderfully! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002A2U8OO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002A2U8OO&linkCode=as2&tag=samkelley97bl-20″>Smethport Calendar Pocket Chart (English/Spanish)<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=samkelley97bl-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B002A2U8OO
Wow! This is a great homeschool room! I just started a linky party for homeschooling rooms/spots, back to school fun stuff, etc. and would love to have you link up with us to share this spot! I plan on leaving the party open through the month of August in hopes of getting a nice collection of homeschool room links and organizing tips as a resource for myself and other homeschooling mamas! Please feel free to share this link and any others you think might be a good fit! :)http://www.thenatureofgrace.blogspot.com/2012/07/reading-spot-and-homeschool-havens-link.html
I love it! I was surfing pinterest for homeschool room ideas and yours poped up! GREAT JOB!! I have 4 kiddos and 1 on the way so I love your blog and will be back for more!! Great job! Thanks for all the inspiration!
Thank you! I hope to see you around!
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