One of the non-priority results of our latest home improvement endeavor is that I now have a room dedicated to doing school with the boys during the day.   We’re homeschooling rather than sending them to all-day kindergarten this year, and that’s going so well that I think we’re going to continue with it for some time to come.  It’s certainly not for everybody, and we’ll see what we can handle when our current adoption finalizes, but for now it’s working well for us.

And so it has justified getting it’s own dedicated space. 

I spent the last week organizing our stuff and then laminating and hanging wall-charts that go with what we’re learning this year, and at this point, the room’s pretty much all it’s ever going to be for this school year anyway.

And all down-low where short people can see (makes me smile every time I walk through).

And so I post for the benefit of our friends who have already done the same and whose ideas I’ve already stolen and for those who love to steal ideas as much as I do:

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Bookcases of supplies, Oregon Scientific Smart Globe [we recommend!!!], maps, solar system diagrams, large bouncy balls to sit on when we’re having trouble with “the fidgets” and can’t handle a regular chair, backpacks for co-op days, CD player, pencil sharpener, wall-pocket chart for memory work

(until the chandelier gets moved to its rightful place, the desks sit under it “so I don’t bump my head on it”…’cept I still do, when I’m leaning over to see the boys’ work… )

 

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Phonics charts, Family Values chart, library books on all the topics we’re currently studying, art supplies, etc.

(yes there will  be a banister on that side of the stairs… someday… probably before our next adoption home inspection)

 

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Heriberto’s favorite thing – the kids’ monthly calendar, which he checks every day to see what things are coming up…

(room done; Christmas decor still to be removed…)