This year I decided to move upstairs to homeschool. Over the years I have become less and less schoolish, and more a family who homeschools. I have stopped enjoying the classroom feel and really like doing school in my diningroom. We have the opportunity to sit on the couch, or the front porch on nice days and I really like that.

Because I don't want to have school items all over my house, I have kept the bulk of my materials downstair and only brought up what we are currently using this quarter including a few basic art supplies. If I find I need something, we can just go downstairs to my supply cupboard in my old schoolroom, which is now converted to a a TV room. I added a couch to the room and took our TV down there.

So without further ado... Here is our learning area in the diningroom!

I actually found this shelf on the side of the road one day. I pulled right over and threw it in the back of my van. Now it sits in my diningroom. I use the library heavily in our homeschool, so all my library books are on the shelves that face out. Underneath I have my two older girls books in the blue bin and my two younger girls textbooks in the white. I keep all their notebooks in a bin off to the right. I also have a basket with some books I will be using in the coming weeks, but not currently. I store my Lesson Plans in a notebook that slides in between the two bins on the bottom shelf.

The only other thing I have are basic supplies like pens, pencils, glue sticks etc.. I made a little caddy for those and I keep it on the diningroom table except for meal times. I don't like to remove my tablecloth and placemats, so whenever the girls have to write, we put their papers on a clipboard.

This new arrangement has worked wonderfully and I love it! I hope you enjoyed seeing my new learning area!