We don’t really have a classroom or school room per se. However, we do tend to do most all table time at our dining room table. We have computer time and family time and other times, where we are scattered about. Independent reading time takes place during our afternoon quiet time. We school outside, and around the farm. Really, our learning takes place everywhere.
This year, I have put most of our file boxes away. We were given a pamphlet shelf that is just right for school books. This is behind our dining room table.
All sorts of goodies fit on this great shelf. I love that we can see what is on it at a glance. On the side, I have hung all the notebooking pages for the first semester that I have printed to pull out and add to their slots as the year progresses. I also have our bag of lapbooking supplies and our weekly Bible/Character Flashcards hanging here.
I have a shelf of extra resources and games. This shelf also includes manipulatives too. This is on the south end of the dining room.
Here is our dining room. We do spend lots of time in this room for school. The main reason is, it is very centrally located in our home. The kitchen is to the north, and our family room (playroom, where mommy’s computer is, where one of the school computers is) is to the east of the dining room.
The posters on the left, are our memory verses and definitions for our character study this week.
Here they wait for mommy to do family school. Family school consist of science, history, geography, bible, and character.
A lot of our science time is spent outside. Here we have a fairly large bull snake. This little guy loves the mice from the fields. We also have a garden, and we farm, having cattle, hay and wheat. They also spend quite a bit of time, working in daddy’s shop…welding, mechanicing, using a lathe, woodworking and more.
Education doesn’t have to take place behind the same four walls all day every day. It helps to have an area dedicated to keeping books and supplies organized and on hand, so we have set up our dining room for that.
What does your school room look like?
My kids would LOVE that snake! School at your house sounds similar to my house. I can’t keep all that stuff in my dining room though. Too many tiny people would have it everywhere! We have a room that used to be our school room, but we felt too confined. Now it holds several sets of bookshelves as well as arts/crafts, and other educational supplies. The children each have crates with their binders and texts, and I have one, too. Those come out each day along with whatever other materials we are using. But somedays they are learning in the barn, garden, shop, etc. I enjoyed your post =) Thanks!
love that pamphlet shelf! what a great idea! stopping by from the Christian Homeschool Moms group on fb!
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We are doing that Geography too! Love your clips… I need to make a note of all these ideas I’ve seen! =)
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