My School Room
I wanted to add my photos of my school room again. I had someone ask about it recently and thought I'd repost them. (I lost my original blog when HSB did some updates).
We will be starting our 10th year homeschooling and one very important part of this for me is making sure everything has a place. There is nothing worse for me than trying to find something and it not being there. That's not to say everything is always where it's suppose to be, not even close, but it's a nice goal, right?!
This set of shelves is where we store all our notebooking and scrapbooking supples. I'm a big fan of the clear plastic draws. I like these for several reasons, they are durable, afforable, clear and they can be pulled out and put back where they belong. I perfer to have many small draws rather than a few big ones because things get lost on the bottom of them. In the bottom three canvan baskets we have one with legos, one with blocks and one is actually empty at the moment. I also label everything, this is because I don't want the kids to ever have an excuse to say "I didn't know where to put it". I'd heard that way too often in the past, but no more!
I purchased the cubby book shelf at Target for about $50 and all the plastic draws bins at Wal-Mart for between $3-$10. I use a tool caddy to home all the little scrapbook supplies and purchased that for about $10 at Wal-mart.
This is just a close up of on of the draw sets, it holds the 12 x 12 scrapbook paper. We also make scrapbook pages for school, but that's another post.
This set of drawers holds the kids crayons, colored pencils and markers. Again, I love being able to pull out the entire draw. It's so easy and convenient.
This is Mom's set of draws for pencils, pens, highlighters, markers and labels. The binders next to them are mine for each subject. I divide each subject into 36 weeks and add any ideas, notebooking pages, worksheets, projects, etc. to the week where it would apply. This has been a big time saver for me having everything I need in separate binders and in separate weeks.
This is my set of bookshelves. I just have them sitting on a folding table. I have used them for the last seven years and this has worked very nicely.
The set of bookshelves under the window hold the books I plan to use for the year. One set holds literature, one set science and the last set history and geography. The top shelf of all the book shelves are reference books for that subject. The corner shelf holds my copy machine, paper, and misc. supplies.
This is our main desk area. When we are working on something together we all sit around this table, which is again just 2 folding tables. My youngest kids always sit by me, so they can have extra help. We do A LOT of notebooking at this table. We used to do our school devotional here, but have found sitting in the family room is much more comfortable. Actually, we do most our reading and lessons in other rooms and only come in the school room to do our math, writing or anything that needs a desk.
You can see the kids desks lined up there to the right. Each of the kids has there own desk where they can sit and do their independent work.
Each of the kids also has their own bookshelf. This has been great to have. It teaches them to govern their own things, keeps them organized and if they are messy the kids who share a nearby shelf gets on their case. A little peer pressure is a good thing when it comes to this sort of thing.
The boxes on the bottom shelf hold our science project supplies for the school year. Well, at least the ones that can be stored in a box. Most science books will have a supply list at the beginning of the book with all the supplies you will need for each project throughout the year.
This world map was a school project a few years ago (this picture is a couple years old). We put it on the wall with an overhead projector. My kids traced on the lines with a pencil than went over it with a marker. We paint in countries we have studied as we go. When we decided to do this, we thought it would be good to paint the school room blue so we would have our oceans and other bodies of water already done. I love having this map on the wall, it has been wonderful for the kids to have a visual and to see what they have learned over the years. I'm sure I will treasure it even more once they are all gone. The only thing I would do different is make it a bit smaller, it eats up an entire wall. Wall space is kind of precious as many of you know.
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School Room
I love your school room! What an inspiration! I have browsed through tons of homeschoolings sites today but only commented on yours because I was inspired by the pictures you posted (visual learner here!) Great job!
Thanks...
...for posting these Betsy. I love to see other people's organizational ideas. I'm a visual person and seeing pictures always helps me to get ideas for my own organizational needs. I love the cubby shelf from Target, and I love the idea of putting two folding tables together for a workspace. That gives plenty of room for supplies and for everyone to have enough space to work. I'm envying your large window with all that natural light. We get a little natural light, but not nearly enough in our school room. I'm also a little envious of your copier. I've been wanting one in our school room for a long time. I can imagine it would be so much more efficient to be able to make copies of anything you need on the spot. Right now I'm in the process of trying to make copies of all I need for the year and filing them ahead of time, but I always seem to come up with some things throughout the year that need to be copied so having a copier at home would be great! Thanks for sharing!
Blessings!
P.S. I'm downloading your Nature Study Journal and Copywork Pages. I can't wait to see what they look like!
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4:10 AM, Jul. 10, 2007 }
{ Posted by
Jimmie }
I saw your link on the Notebooking Nook Yahoo group. I can't believe I've never visited your blog! Your work is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it for free/cheap. :-)
Your family is beautiful too! I had no idea you have SIX! Awesome!
Thanks for linking to the squidoo page on lapbooking. I made that! <happy grin>
What an absolutely beautiful classroom!
I love the 'wall' map idea. Wish I had a wall to do the same. How very organized everthing is. Thanks for sharing these inspiring pictures.
P.S. I really enjoy your notebooking pages.
Thank You!
Thank you for posting these. It has given me some WONDERFUL ideas about how to re-organize my space.
I actually had this page open on my PC for 2 days so I could write my list of things I needed and then I was checking out Walmart.com and Target.com to see if they still had some of the shelving units and then my PC did an update and shutdown! I had to frantically find the email message where you sent the link! LOL
I am going to post about this on my blog too because I want my friends to see it as well! Thanks again!
A Gal After My Own Heart...
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11:11 AM, Jul. 13, 2007 }
{ Posted by
PlainJane }
THANK YOU...
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10:31 AM, Jul. 15, 2007 }
{ Posted by
momatpeace }
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Great notebooking site... we are planning on doing more of this -- so I'll probably be back.
Jennifer
http://gabbygwenhwyfar.blogspot.com/
This is great!!!
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8:48 PM, Nov. 7, 2007 }
{ Posted by
mamaforhim }
We use BJU homesat, so our set up might be a bit different because of dvd players, etc...
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