Looks great! I just revamped my learning room also. I really like it and it is working well for us so far. We will see how 3rd grade goes, since we start week after next. Good job, looks nice.
You did a great job on your room----I know from experience how long it can take to organize this most vital space! Be good to yourself, you are doing a fine job! I enjoy your blog immensely, by the way!
1. The red folder is our "daily folder" station. There are 10 pockets, perfect for my 2 kids so they each have a Mon, Tues., Wed., Thurs., and Fri. folder that contains what they have to do that day. I empty and fill these once a week.
2. The chore chart is just a recycled scheduling pocket chart that I got from a teacher supply store. I wrote on sentence strips their chores, pink for Camille and blue for Danny.
3. The bookshelf next to my desk contains immediate teacher books I'll need on the top shelf and two shelves are children's literature. Books that Camille can pick from for independent reading. The very bottom shelf contains my CM books and more teacher helps that I couldn't fit on the top shelf.
I have another bookcase inside the closet that holds our DVDs and videotapes and supplies. I have a hall closet that contains our games. Inside the closet is more storage but it's not seen when looking straight into it.
I've squeeeezed into this space and purged so much stuff...it's taken me forever to figure out how to put everything and what to keep/get rid of. The next place better be bigger, I don't think my heart could stand another purging session.
I would love nothing more than to have a room for homeschooling. (Okay maybe I'd love something chocolate too.) We do not have space, and though the girls each have a desk in their room, neither one is able to focus in their room. So we are stuck with the kitchen table. Yours looks really nice and organized. Blessings.
Jessica, can you do a post on how to make a chore chart. It looks great.
Also, I would appreciate if you can post ideas on how to organize HS stuff in a house where there is NO learning room. My children are 6.5, 4.5 and 10 months. Right now, I have an IKEA cubbies for books in my room. I keep folders, globe etc in my ds 6.5 room. All toys are in my dd 4.5 room.
Our school desk is lil tikes picnic table in my ds (6.5) room, and this fits my dd and ds perfectly for now. I don't know for how long though, because my son might grow of it soon.
We live in a very small townhome. Kitchen, living room and dining rooms are downstairs and are small. Kitchen is v. small (like apartment kitchen).
I love your school room. When/If we remodel I want to have a room dedicated to school of course by the time we do that my son, going into 10th grade will be graduating. :-P
You did a great job putting the room together, happy schooling.
I love the way you have organized your room! That is my task for this week - organizing and cleaning our school room in preparation for starting our new year. You have motivated me! I'd better get to work :)
Your learning room is fantastic!!! Since my two oldest children aren't at home anymore, I am rearranging the back room into our school room - - you have provided a great example!! : ) Thanks for sharing!
Howdy stranger.... I like how moving your desk over to a wall opened it up.... it looks great!
My peeps were all at a weekend camp ( all 3! RyLee is in Jr High youth group now!) and I have been cleaning and de cluttering big time. Best time to do that is when they are all gone so they cant say... hey I still want that! *Ü* Even if it hasn't been touched in years.... I still have both attics to clean out (again) some more...
BIBLE
Leading Little Ones to God
Right Choices by Kenneth Taylor
Big Thoughts for Little People
Beginnings I: And It Was Good
Egermeier's Bible Story Book
Memorized The Lord's Prayer and Apostles Creed
LANGUAGE ARTS
Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
Memory Work: Poetry & Scripture
Poetry ("A Child's Garden of Verses") Copywork
First Language Lessons
Spelling Workout A & B
MATH
Horizons Math 1
HISTORY
Story of the World Vol 1./AG
History Scribe notebook pages
SCIENCE
Life Science: Human/Animals/Plants
ART
Artistic Pursuits K-3 Bk1
Harmony Fine Arts Grade One
OTHER
Manners Made Easy
READERS WE LOVED
Bobs Books, Nora Gaydos books
McGuffey Readers and Dick & Jane
BIBLE
Explorer's Bible Study Beginnings II, New Testament
LANGUAGE ARTS
Memory Work: Poetry with The Harp & Laurel Wreath
Explode the Code books 4-6
Primary Language Lessons by Margot Davidson
We dropped spelling and changed our LA direction this year.
MATH
Horizons Math 2
HISTORY
Started Tapestry of Grace, Year 2 Redesigned after using SOTW 2 until Jan '08.
SCIENCE
Earth Science: Physical geography, earth science and astronomy
ART
Artistic Pursuits K-3 Bk2
Begin earnest Nature Study and Nature journal this year
OTHER
French with Écoutez Parlez, French Oral Program
Continued with piano lessons using Alfred Piano Basics
Started poetry notebook
Memorized The Books of the Bible, Old Testament
This is a mixture of literature, science and history. I'm only interested in keeping track of what we've read. This does not include all the books Camille is reading on her own, although there are some marked with (I) which means independent.
Burgess Bird Book for Children
Augustine, Farmer's Boy of Tagaste
Who was the Acrobatic Empress?
Britain - My Country
Marguerite Makes a Book
Across a Dark and Wild Sea
Moonlight Kite
Saint Nicholas
Saint Valentine
On the Same Day in March
The Pebble in My Pocket
The Very Hungry Lion
I am Hindu
Buddha
The Seven Continents
Air is All Around You (I)
Rocks in His Head
What Makes Day and Night
To Space and Back
Eclipse: Darkness in Daytime
The Three Trees
The Cloud Book
The Man Who Named the Clouds
The Snowflake: Water Cycle
Because of Winn-Dixie (I)
Storytime with the Millers
The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor
Madeline Says Merci
The Storm Book
Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane
A Drop Around the World
I Am Muslim
Sir Whong and the Golden Pig
The Sun Girl and the Moon Boy
Heroes: Great Men Through the Ages
Dig Wait Listen: A Desert Toad's Tale
What is the Full Moon Made Of?
Somewhere in the World Right Now
I can be a geologist
Lon Po Po: Red-Riding Hood from China
Dave's Down-to-Earth Rock Shop
The Holy Twins
Animal Dreaming
Surtsey, The Newest Place on Earth
Volcanoes! Mountains of Fire
Super Storms
Eruption! The Story of Volcanoes
Volcanoes Mountains That Blow Their Tops
Earthquakes (Earth Watch Book)
1,000 Years Ago on Planet Earth
Among the Odds and Evens
Subtraction Action
Avalanche Annie
The Tricky Tortoise
Earthquakes by S.Walker
Tsunamis
Oops, neglected this for 2 months.
The Crusades
The Minstrel in the Tower
A Gift from St. Francis
How to be a Medieval Knight
Knights
Castles
Eric the Red, Leif the Lucky
Life and Times of Vikings
Sightseers: Viking World
How to be a Samurai Warrior
Marco Polo Overland to China
The Mongols
The Door in the Wall
Frog and Toad Together
Chanticleer and the Fox
The Black Death
Black Beauty
The Story of Joan of Arc
The Squire and the Scroll
A Medieval Feast
A Walk in the Rainforest
Nature's Green Umbrella
Francis Drake
Johann Gutenberg & Amazing Press
Marguerite Makes a Book
Renaissance Artists Who Inspired the World
The Clown of God
Christopher Columbus
Leonardo's Horse
Encounter
Ferdinard Magellan
Saint George and the Dragon
The Sad Night
Nicolaus Copernicus: The Earth is a Planet
19 comments:
Looks great! I just revamped my learning room also. I really like it and it is working well for us so far. We will see how 3rd grade goes, since we start week after next. Good job, looks nice.
Great room! I'm wondering what you have in the red hanging file folder? I also like your chore idea!
Liz in NC (from WTM Boards)
Love it! You really know how to work a room! :)
The chore chart is really cool.
Lee
You did a great job on your room----I know from experience how long it can take to organize this most vital space! Be good to yourself, you are doing a fine job! I enjoy your blog immensely, by the way!
It looks great! I am inspired!
Michele
We love it!
Tee Hee--thanks for posting! We love to see pics of work and work space.
Great idea on the chart of chores, too.
Chris in VA
Love it!
Thanks for the inspiration!!! Where did you get the blue hanging thing?
Your room looks so great and is so organized! I love the chore chart! Where did you find the poster "Teach Me to Pray?"
Love your room. You have really been busy with moving and getting things together.
Just wondering what you keep in the bookshelf beside your desk. Are these mostly teacher's guides? That is pretty much what I keep on mine.
We have that same Indian tribe poster and I recognized it immediately.
Answering questions:
1. The red folder is our "daily folder" station. There are 10 pockets, perfect for my 2 kids so they each have a Mon, Tues., Wed., Thurs., and Fri. folder that contains what they have to do that day. I empty and fill these once a week.
2. The chore chart is just a recycled scheduling pocket chart that I got from a teacher supply store. I wrote on sentence strips their chores, pink for Camille and blue for Danny.
3. The bookshelf next to my desk contains immediate teacher books I'll need on the top shelf and two shelves are children's literature. Books that Camille can pick from for independent reading. The very bottom shelf contains my CM books and more teacher helps that I couldn't fit on the top shelf.
I have another bookcase inside the closet that holds our DVDs and videotapes and supplies. I have a hall closet that contains our games. Inside the closet is more storage but it's not seen when looking straight into it.
I've squeeeezed into this space and purged so much stuff...it's taken me forever to figure out how to put everything and what to keep/get rid of. The next place better be bigger, I don't think my heart could stand another purging session.
Love the chore chart:) I used to be a teacher and have that same pocket chart. I had been thinking of how to use it- your idea wins!
I have several of your posters too. I love the Geography Terms one.
Your room looks great!
I would love nothing more than to have a room for homeschooling. (Okay maybe I'd love something chocolate too.) We do not have space, and though the girls each have a desk in their room, neither one is able to focus in their room. So we are stuck with the kitchen table. Yours looks really nice and organized. Blessings.
Jessica, can you do a post on how to make a chore chart. It looks great.
Also, I would appreciate if you can post ideas on how to organize HS stuff in a house where there is NO learning room. My children are 6.5, 4.5 and 10 months. Right now, I have an IKEA cubbies for books in my room. I keep folders, globe etc in my ds 6.5 room. All toys are in my dd 4.5 room.
Our school desk is lil tikes picnic table in my ds (6.5) room, and this fits my dd and ds perfectly for now. I don't know for how long though, because my son might grow of it soon.
We live in a very small townhome. Kitchen, living room and dining rooms are downstairs and are small. Kitchen is v. small (like apartment kitchen).
Any ideas appreciated.
Dian
I love your school room. When/If we remodel I want to have a room dedicated to school of course by the time we do that my son, going into 10th grade will be graduating. :-P
You did a great job putting the room together, happy schooling.
Elaine
I love the way you have organized your room! That is my task for this week - organizing and cleaning our school room in preparation for starting our new year. You have motivated me! I'd better get to work :)
Your learning room is fantastic!!!
Since my two oldest children aren't at home anymore, I am rearranging the back room into our school room - - you have provided a great example!! : )
Thanks for sharing!
Howdy stranger.... I like how moving your desk over to a wall opened it up.... it looks great!
My peeps were all at a weekend camp ( all 3! RyLee is in Jr High youth group now!) and I have been cleaning and de cluttering big time. Best time to do that is when they are all gone so they cant say... hey I still want that! *Ü* Even if it hasn't been touched in years.... I still have both attics to clean out (again) some more...
Glad to see you all settling in...
Lisa~
I love how you labeled Danny!!!!!
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