Our Homeschool Room has changed locations in our home yet again! This change actually happened shortly after the start of last year’s school year. Around Thanksgiving we decided Sarge needed a bedroom so Little Bug moved to the Homeschool Room and we did away with our Playroom to make the new Homeschool Room. This room is technically suppose to be the dinning room in our home, but I see it being the Homeschool Room for many years to come!

And now for the tour through our Homeschool Room. We will start in the left hand corner (if looking at the picture above). This little area was not pictured in the picture above but this is what is there:

Sarge’s corner!

I have the pack n play set up in this corner for Sarge’s Independent Playtime. I also figure it will be handy to have the pack n play in this location once he is really mobile. If I need to know he is contained, I can easily put him there and know he is safe.

Next is the doorway from the Homeschool Room to the kitchen (since this room is suppose to be the dinning room). Then you see our organizer for paper (left) and Sweet Pea’s workboxes (right) with the lamp I always had on my desk when I was a public school teacher. Beside that is our home library and above our home library is a world map.

Now we are turning to the back wall of our Homeschool Room and the first thing on this wall is Little Bug’s workboxes.

On our main wall in the Homeschool Room, we have three big bookshelves that hold the majority of our homeschool curriculum and supplies. The bookshelf on the left is for office supplies, future curriculum, curriculum we are not currently using and past year’s portfolios. The middle bookshelf holds education games, math curriculum and manipulatives, handwriting curriculum and manipulatives. The bottom shelf of the middle bookshelf is where the girls put complete work and it is also where I store the year’s portfolios. The bookshelf on the right holds our Sonight curriculum, All About Reading curriculum and educational toys.

The wall with the window has another bookshelf with baskets that have preschool printables (left) and our Ready-Made Preschool Level 1 curriculum (right), art and craft supplies, Ready-Made Preschool books, math manipulatives for the future and math games I have printed off to use this year. My desk is also on this wall right in front of the window.

We spend a lot of time in this little corner of our Homeschool Room. Little Bug loves to read here and many lessons are taught here at the dry erase board. There is a board for the girls to pin their work for the week so it can be on display.

We had to get a bigger table. The little table my dad made for my brother and me when we were children was no longer meeting our needs. The girls needed more space to spread out! A friend of mine posted this table for sale for only $15! It is the perfect Homeschool table. I just need to find some chairs to go with it so we don’t have to keep moving the kitchen table chairs back and forth.

I love having a Homeschool Room. Some families get along fine without one, but I am so grateful we have the space. I like having all the homeschool curriculum and materials organized in one location in our home. Sure, we branch out and do school in most every room of our home, but it is nice to have this room for organizational purposes.

- Elaine