I am trying to set up our room for homeschooling. I am not really sure what kind of things you need to homeschool. I have some random furniture that I plan on using for storage (such as a few tv stands with lots of doors and drawers) and have some book shlves and a few desks. I also have a white board. I have put all our books, workbooks, and art supplies- along with our computers in the room. Now I want to know what else makes it more of a "homeschool" space? What kind of things have you found you really need, like, can't live without- and what kind of things were a waste?
I would love to have a dedicated space for homeschooling, but there are 5 of us living in a minihome and there isn't much space for anything LOL I have a tall bookshelf in the living room that holds all our school supplies. The bottom shelf of our built-in china cabinet/dining room cupboards holds our encyclopedia set. There's a school desk and chair in a corner of the living room with Josh's school laptop where he does the majority of his schoolwork. Asher and I usually sit on the couch to work together. Big projects, science experiments, etc happen at the kitchen table. I'd love a big enough wall space to dedicate to a large white board or chalk board, but for now I have to make do with a 2' board that lives behind the bookshelf when not in use.
You can see picks of our homeschool room on my blog. My favorite thing is having the couch to curl up on to read together or for me to have to do some work while my son is working at his desk.
Our Homeschool Room I need to update this as some of my storage has changed but its still configured the same way. We actually still do most of our work outside of this room but it is very nice to have it for storage.
when I first started hs'ing, I thought I needed an entire room to school in. I lamented the fact that I didn't have desks, adequate shelves, storage, etc. Money was extremely tight(hubby wasn't working) Then, when I was able to purchase more things, I realized we did just fine without it! Desks are just shelf and bracket things I put up in about 15 min and cost me about $10. I buy so little curriculum that everything we use can be put in a backpack. The one thing I really like having is,of all things, clipboards! They allow us to school anywhere in the house(or out of it!). Hs'ing can be as simple or complex as you want it to be.
Like a room burglars ransacked. I really don't have one space. I use my dining room and some storage by my basement steps. I try to make it as neat as possible. I have a shelf for all teacher books and supplies and another for all art projects and yet another for all K stuff. Then I have baskets in my dining room with books for my K student and items my two other kids share. Then I have a small 3 drawer thingy...can't think of the word...that houses paper work for each in a drawer of their own.
When at home we have a room for hsling and we used it when the kids were little but now it's the kitchen or living room. This way mom can multitask and the kids can be near me.
I wish we had a school room! We live in a small three bedroom house with two kids. There is just no room. We do our schooling at the kitchen table. There is also a book shelf and craft storage in the kitchen.
lmao Ava. That line was too funny. You can see our classroom on our blog http://www.adventurehollow.blogspot.com
I have a cupboard on wheels near our kitchen/dining room table that I cleared out, then hung a US map on the wall. We work at the table and then put it all back in the cupboard when we're done. Ds wants a dedicated area becuase he says the windows and pets are too distracting and he can't concentrate. Don't know where we'd put it yet though. I would really like a whiteboard and an area to put our reading books and library books. Right now, we just stack them on the cupboard.
My homeschool space consists of my entire house, decks, yard, fishing pier and trampoline. Sometimes we sit at the kitchen table, sometimes the game room, recently we've been sitting on the porch of trampoline. Cold rainy days we use my bed. The other day we did science on our pier. Just wherever we feel like on any particular day.
