Our Homeschool Room has moved yet again!

This room is suppose to be the formal dining room of our home and it now functions as a dining/homeschool room!

My goal was to move away from the "school room" look and make a space that is both functional for eating and schooling. Bright colors and school posters were removed and two new pieces of furniture were purchased to give this room more of a dining room feel but yet still be able to function as a place where I can organize and store curriculum and schooling materials.

I love the way this all came together!!

Our school materials are organized in baskets by the time of day that they are used.

The bottom shelf has our Morning Basket which includes everything we need for Bible and CC Review. (Beside the Morning Basket are the trays for turning in completed work. This makes keeping up with yearly portfolios a breeze.) Moving on up to the middle shelf, you will see two more baskets. The basket on the left has our Morning Work (Language Arts) and the basket on the right has our Afternoon Work (Math). The top shelf has Bibles and small manipulatives used frequently.

It is so simple and so organized!

The cabinets store all of our Language Arts and handwriting materials! Language Arts materials are on the top shelf and handwriting materials are on the bottom shelf. I was even able to keep the alphabet poster without hanging it on the wall in the dining room by putting it on the inside of the cabinet door.

I did keep our workbox system because I find that the workbox system is extremely useful for the preschool and kindergarten years. Most of Sweet Pea's work is put into these boxes weekly. Each color box represents one day of the week. The work she does with me goes in the top box and the work she does independently - while I am teaching Little Bug - goes in the bottom box. The small white board for All About Reading and All About Spelling is beside the workboxes.

This is the second piece of furniture we purchased. I had the chalkboard hanging and had not put it up anywhere in the house yet. It is the perfect place for me to write our Monthly Memory Verse. The basket on the top of this cabinet is for educational activities for Sarge.

Inside the cabinet is all of our math materials and the numbers chart that I really didn't want to hang on the dining room wall either.

I finally found an accurate world globe that didn't cost a fortune at Target.

This is a silverware organizer for entertaining, but it works great to house all of our school supplies and it blends in well with the dining room decor.

This corner has the 8-cube shelf with all of our Usborne books organized by subject.

The baskets on top have the Timeline Cards, Memory Flashcards and Usborne books that we will be using over the next six weeks as well as the file folders with any activities we will be doing with CC Memory Work.

I guess this corner looks a little school room-ish with the white board, but it passes in my book because it is functional and it serves a purpose. The three baskets of books are our Magic School Bus books, If You Lived books and Let's Read and Find Out science books, which we read all the time in our history and science studies.

 I did have to move some of our homeschool materials to other places in the house. Curriculum not in use went to a bookshelf in the master closet. Preschool materials went to a closet in the hallway and all games went to the kitchen island cabinets. 

I love the serene, clean, organized feel this room now has!

- Elaine