This posting contains pictures of our finished school room that I am excited to share. 

Please see my previous post if you want more details of anything you see in my school room (like where we got certain shelves, etc.) 

Here is a link to my previous post about my "in progress" school room.

http://homeschoolblogger.com/BlessedBeingMom/122304/

You can also see how much has changed since the last set of pictures, about six weeks ago.

We are starting our new school year next week & can't wait to have fun in our new room.  Of course, we do a lot of couch school & outdoor school & school all over the house, but it is nice to have a designated place for it also, especially if we are in the middle of a lesson and it is lunchtime or something and we don't want to have to put it away.  It is so nice to have all our school stuff gathered together too.  These pictures start at the door & go counterclockwise around the room.

This over-the-door shoe hanger is already wonderful to hold all the small stuff!  Thanks to the ladies on the Five in a Row board for the idea! 

P.S.  Notice the pencil sharpener mounted on the wall.  Now we feel like a real school. 

My husband built these simple shelves to help make the best use of this small area.  The basket on the very top shelf holds our Sonlight Science K kit materials, and below it is a box of perler beads that we wanted to keep up high to avoid a huge mess everywhere.  A lot of our manipulatives are in this small cabinet.

We love the flat space on top of these bookshelves almost as much as the bookshelves themselves.    One of the bags up top is full of all kinds of preschool & kindergarten type flashcards that we bought here & there but never used much.  Maybe one day we'll get them out again.  At least now they are in sight so we are less likely to forget we have them.

We like to start our day with the Pledge of Allegiance, so we had to make sure to hang up our flag in our school room, and of course our calendar for morning calendar time.

The kids and I (mom) sat down one day & colored all the pictures on the Handwriting Without Tears alphabet & number wall cards so we could hang those up as a border in our school room.  And we absolutely LOVE our rain gutter bookshelves that dad installed!

The baskets below hold our Bibles & devotionals as well as pencils, crayons & colored pencils.  Our most often used school books are in the shelves on the table, and our copier is to the right of the shelves (with our Math-U-See manipulatives on top of it).

We moved our dry erase board from the wall in our living area (living room/breakfast area).  Right now we are using it to hang up a poster, but we do have the dry erase markers handy also, though it is a bit low & out of the way to be very easily accessible to mom or dad.

Here you can see the floor to ceiling shelves that Matt installed.  The bottom three or four shelves are mostly for easy reader type books.

We finally got our curtains from ebay and they are great.  You can't see it up close but it is a schoolish pattern in primary colors.  There was a delay on the valances due to the seller having a family emergency, but she had excellent feedback so I didn't mind waiting.  After all, curtains are not so important in the great scheme of things.

We have yarn strung from nails along this wall to hang the kids artwork, and the shelves below hold games (which are both fun and educational).  The desk apprentices on top of the shelf hold my files for the various Five in a Row books we are going to be teaching.  The white baskets hanging beside the tall bookshelf hold my label maker (top basket) and our Handwriting Without Tears manipulatives.

And here is the final bookshelf.  The top shelf contains all our Five in a Row volumes & books.  The white basket above holds our ziplock bags of preschool activities, and our cash register is beside it.  This is also where we have our "book hospital" for books needing some tender loving care.

And, we finally got around to making this animal classification chart.  I got the idea from the Five in a Row archives and bought the display board for it over a year ago but just never did get around to working on it.  It feels good to get it done and hopefully it will come in quite useful as we do our studies this year.  This is what is on the board:

Vertebrates:
Mammals
Fish
Birds
Reptiles
Amphibians

Invertebrates:
Insects
Arachnids
Crustaceans
Other invertebrates

I was finally able to get Matt to finish re-hanging our map with the molding he prepared.  I think the map looks great.  Our world map is hung similarly on the opposite wall of this hallway.

Thank you for stopping by to view my pictures and share our joy!  Have a happy and blessed day!  And please excuse any typos as the hour was late when I wrote this, as I was trying to get it done while the kids were sleeping.