Homeschool Room

The beginning of this year, all 3 boys started sharing a room. Click here for a refresher.  The hope was that the 3rd bedroom would become a playroom and save our family room from a multitude of toys every day.  Then, the Lord laid homeschooling on my heart... see post here for that one.  And now the playroom had to morph into the school room.  Through these past posts and through future posts, you will see that this room is going to be quite the multi-purpose room.  :)

We actually started our first day of homeschooling on Monday.  We are going to do a 3 day a week schedule in July.  There are a couple reasons we are starting early.  1)  I want to make sure that this is going to work.  I still have time to run the other way if need be (though the first 2 days have gone amazingly well!)  2)  There are probably going to be a few weeks in the winter that we are going to want to take time off.  A nice winter break is in the works.

So, it hit me that I haven't unveiled the homeschool/ playroom.  I am happy with the way it turned out.  For a family with a  t-i-g-h-t budget, it is perfect.

View from hallway- Loveseat stole from my parent's basement.  TV was boy's Christmas gift from Chad's parents.  Bookshelf came from Target.  One thing I havent' done is put some type of curtain over the door/ window.  Here is the rough idea for what I have planned- I actually forgot that I hadn't done this yet.  haha

Love these... Hunter and Ashton's were made when Hunter was 3 and Ashton was 1.  Our photographer friend in NC did took the pictures and then designed the boards.  I knew that I needed one for Shepherd so I took some pictures when he was 2 but had no clue how to do the board.  Enter one of my best friends, Olivia.

Olivia designed this amazing board for Shepherd.  The verse on his is "my heart leaps for joy and with my song I praise him. Ps 28:7b.  I wanted to use Psalms for each child's board (Hunts is Ps 150:6 and Ashs is Ps 139:14), ironically they all have the word "praise" in them.  The theme that God has placed on me for the last 18 months. Love the way He works!

I got this idea from pinterest.  I tweeked it a bit to make it cheaper and easier to do.  I will do a quicky how-to very soon. I have to find where I stored all the pictures I took from this project.  Expect it in the next few days.

The strip on the other side.  Each kid has their own cork board for their work, pictures, etc.

The desk... also got a coat of chalkboard paint. (desk came from parents basements. Chairs got on clearence years ago from Pier One kids)

The white board-  Our Bible verse for the first five days is in red.  His spelling list is in the middle.  And the yellow paper is the poetry section for the first unit.  He will add pictures to it tomorrow.

The resource closet.  I must take a moment to thank Chad's awesome aunt for giving so much of her teaching material.  She just retired this year from teaching 2nd grade for 35 years!!!  Half of the stuff in this closet was given by her... so, thank you Joan!!!  You are such a great resource for me.

And a closer look at the baskets- the actual homeschooling material.  DVD's in top left.  Top middle was all given by Joan- they are workborks and supplemental material from K5- 3r grade.  Top right is my actual curriculum (the stuff I purchased to make my life easier).  Bottom left are Highlights magazines (Again from Joan).  Middle bottom are k5 readers.  Right bottom are 2nd grade (or higher) readers.  And not pictured but directly below the 2nd grader readers are 1st grade readers.  :)  I would guess that 75% of these readers cam from Joan as well.

So, there it is.  A quick look.  I have found that we move around a good bit; we dont just camp out in this room but it is nice to have a place that has all our resources.  I plan (notice, PLAN, not promise) to do a summary after each unit... A unit is 5 days worth of work.  So, during the actual school year, it should be one post a week about Hunter's activities (may add some of the younger twos activities as well).  This will be mainly for my sake of keeping it organized, but also want to share my experience of homeschooling because I have learned that homeschooling seems to be in the back of MANY women's minds!