Our Homeschool Room has flip-flopped between the formal living room and dining room of our home over the years. This year it is in the formal living room, which is where I prefer for it to be!

I love having all of our school materials in one location of our home and, this year, I feel like the Homeschool Room is finally organized in a very proficient way!

Looking into the Homeschool Room, this is what you see:

If you look to your left, this is what you see:

And if you look to your right, this is what you see:

Now I will tell you what everything is and how everything is organized!

To the left, as you walk in the room, is our carpet area where a lot of schooling takes place. We love this cozy little corner! School pictures from the beginning of the school year are hung here, as well as our World Map and monthly Bible Memory Verses. The two blue baskets hold our Bible and Handwriting materials (left) and the basket on the right has our CC Review materials. You can also see the Memory Flashcards for Cycles 1 & 2 hanging on the wall.

The two baskets in front of the window contain Math & Language Arts materials for both girls. The first basket has all of Sweet Pea's K4/5 Kindergarten curriculum. The beige basket holds Little Bug's AAR and Math curriculum.

You can also see our Calendar, beach ball (used for Memory Work Review) and our workboxes in the corner.

As we continue through the room, on the back wall, there are 3 big bookshelves which hold the majority of our homeschool supplies and materials. The best part about these shelves this year is the way that they are finally organized! The bookshelf on the far left has all of our handwriting/fine motor skills materials. Curriculum not currently being used by anyone is stored on the very bottom shelf. The middle bookshelf has all of our math materials. The bookshelf on the right has all of our reading/phonics materials.

I used to have some homeschool materials stored in closets in the hallway but I never used those materials because "out of sight, out of mind". So I decided to put all of our homeschool materials in one location! I went through it all and gave away some things so that everything would fit on these 3 bookshelves. I absolutely LOVE it. I can clearly see ALL that I have on hand to teach my children and we are using many more of our resources now that we can actually see what we have.

Next is a little reading corner!

All of the books from Ready Made Preschool Levels 1 & 2 are in the brown basket. In the other basket are books on audio.

Then we also have a bookshelf for our home library. The books are categorized by topic/author.

The bottom shelf has our Read and Find Out science books, Magic School Bus books, If You... books and Dr. Suess books.

The middle shelf has a box full of stickers, Poetry books, non-fiction books about animals, Max Lucado stories and Patricia Polloco books.

The shelf with the 4 baskets has art and craft supplies and play doh.

The top shelf has Bible stories, Christmas/Winter books, Eric Carle books and Fall books.

The corner immediately to the right when you walk in the Homeschool Room is our Classical Conversations corner! The weekly Memory Work is on the wall under a bookshelf that holds all of our books that correlate with CC Memory Work! The books are mostly Usborne books and they are organized by subject. History books are in the 2 cubes on the left. The top cube stores what we will use for Cycle 2 this year. The next 2 cubes are for science. The next 2 cubes are for geography (top) and another cube for science. The 2 cubes on the right are for materials not in use from Cycle 1 (top cube - pink basket) and Grammar and Art books (bottom) along with our 3 tin whistles.

The pink and blue baskets on top of the bookshelf is for finished work. Little Bug's is pink and Sweet Pea's is blue. Every month or so, I go through their baskets and choose a few samples of their work to put in their yearly portfolios. Next to those baskets you see our blow up globe ball which Sarge loves to play with. Next to the globe is another brown basket that holds more CC materials relevant to Cycle 2. I have file folders by week with activities that correlate to the Memory Work. (And, no, I don't have something planned for every week and for every subject! There are only about 10 or so folders and most of the activities have to do with science which is usually the subject my girls like to dig deeper in!) The pink folder sticking out of the brown basket has all the Memory Work typed up by week ready to go up on the wall!

The wall space to the right of this bookshelf is a space we use to display any visuals we make to help us with our learning.

The small basket on the floor has all of the Timeline cards for CC!

In the center of our Homeschool Room is our table where we do some of our school work that needs to be done at a table.

And, of course, the alphabet letters that the girls made during Ready-Made Preschool are hung up around the perimeter of the room on the right side!

This room is a highly functional room and I absolutely love the way it is organized. I think it will serve us well this school year!

- Elaine