We are in the process of setting up our home school room and I'm in need of some ideas. How do you decorate or set up your home school room? Any tips you'd like to share?
A little fun personalization. We used different color paints and my boys put their palms in the paint and made hand prints on the walls for borders, around the door, on their very own bulletin board border.
ROOM?!?! You do school in a ROOM?!?! WOW!!! We do it all over our house!!! LOL! I think JenErix's site might have pictures of her schoolroom. Be sure to leave wall space for timelines and maps! Good lighting. You might want some comfy beanbag chairs for independent reading! (For kids, not you...I doubt I could get out of one of those things, lol!!!)
A room would be great. I will be doing ours in our dining room but it has great big builtins to store all of our stuff. It takes up a whole wall. I have a daycare so the room off the dining room is the playroom and i have a US map in there and shapes and numbers and than I have a spanish poster as well...... If I get out of daycare that will be our homeschool room but how I have it right now is good too.
Just let your stuff guide you. You can hang their art work, maps, posters, ABC's, you could do the whole school theme. I would suggest lots of shelves. My school room is also our office, and sewing room. It gets kind of full sometimes, with all the projects and such. Make the most of your space. If you have multiple children you will have lots of books and manipulatives. Just make sure you have a place to put them. Happy Homeschooling!!
We got a really cool wallpaper mural of the map of the world from Home Depot. It was 8 panels, and took 1 evening to put up. It is the single most complimented thing in our schoolroom. EVERYONE comments on how cool it is. My kids LOVE it! Other than that, I hang their artwork, we have a calendar thing we bought from a Becker Teacher Store - we change the stuff each month. I also bought a few posters from their b/c they're only $1.98ish each....we have one on how to tell time, one of the USA, one of the pledge of allegience...and another that I can't remember right now! LOL !!! I'm going to get a few more, and maybe put them on an easel as we use them or something. HAVE FUN!!!!
I am going to be doing a den/schoolroom too. I don't really expect the boys to work in there much, but I am hoping for a place to store stuff. I need bookcases!!!!!!!!! right now we have the books double deep. It makes it hard to find the ones you want. I am looking for a good computer library sort of program...one that can keep track of what you have. It would be great to find one that would let you make notes or reviews of books...and keywords that you can add yourself so you can find stuff. (anyone know of one?) I am trying to decide how to go on the bookcases...we have some, but not enough...do I just add to those in kind of a hodgepodge or do I go get some lumber and make it a school project, a whole wall of not quite built ins?? We have a great old rolltop desk that has cubbies, so the guys llike that. We have a globe and a wall hung world map, both of those are used all the time. We usually read in bed.
The suggestion about the HUGE wall map made me think: how about painting a mural on the wall? When I taught ps, I had a big blank wall that I didn't just want to cover in posters, so I took some old vinyl pull down blinds (two double window ones) and painted a vibrant painting on it. (I'd attach a pic if I knew how...) If you're not artistic yourself, I think you can do the old SundaySchool trick of making a transparency of any cool pic you find online or other wise and project and trace onto the wall. It wouldn't have to be perfect, just colorful, fun and dramatic!
There's a library web site that does that. The children's librarian told me about it. You can do book lists for your kids, keep track of what they read, make "book shelves", etc. I'll ask her about it again. I guess it's kind of a literary "Face Book".
Ah, I wish I had a schoolroom. I would totally decorate it with posters, maps, etc. At the moment we just use our dining room table for most of our bookwork. DH made a built-in bookcase for their school stuff, and there's an open area where a small bulletin board, dry erase board and magnetic calendar hang. There really isn't room to put up anything else on the walls. Because the other three walls are taken: One wall is an open bar to the kitchen, another houses the computer hutch, and the final one is taken up by the fireplace, a door and a window. If I had a schoolroom, I'd paint it a nice bright color, have tons of bookshelves and bins for our supplies, hang interesting mobiles, have a big dry erase board and bulletin board to display their work, and comfy seating. It would also be ideal for them to have their own computer. OH, and a durable table or two for working on, so that I wouldn't have to constantly nag them to draw and write only the plastic placemats, not directly on top of my expensive cherry dining room table! :lol:
Our school room with pics This is our school room, acutally an extra 12x12 bedroom near our kitchen. so I can fix lunch while the kiddos work nearby. our kids are 1st grade and k-4 so this may look too young if you have older kids. some of the bookcases are hand-me-downs and the black ones I got at Target for $19.99. The rug is an old one we had that I just painted the kids monogram onto. Abby and walker Collins! I ordered lots of books by the lot off ebay to make a small "library". the table and lamp are also hand-me-downs from a family at church. I just repainted it. my mom made the curtains. I ordered the poster from smilemakers.com and schoolbox.com. I made a "reading area" with an old bathroom rug, extra, old throw pillows and lots of stuffed animals. the kids love to hide back there (behind the door) and look at, read books. considering that most everything is hand me downs, we probably spend less than $200 on the room, just a lot of time! the kids are so proud of it and all their friends love to play in the room
There is an application for Mac's called Delicious Library...CD's, DVD's, Books, etc...easy to log in, ties info to all the info on Amazon, et al. Not sure if it's available for PC...but it might be
We live in a small 2 bedroom apartment so we do our homeschooling throughout the home. We have built in bookcases that have about 6 shelves and hold all our books and "then some." I got maps of the U.S. and a World Map at the Dollar Tree. For my calendar math area, I have a calendar with velcro numbers and holiday cards. Located there is our weather chart and graph, the days of the week, and daily task chart.
Decorate? I don't have any room for decorating. :lol: I have a 9-ft wide closet, 3-drawer file cabinet with tall paper caddy (made by my FIL) on top, a 5-shelf bookcase, 4'x8' whiteboard (actually, bathroom tile board from Lowe's), window (with valance only; curtain in previous house got marker on it several times, so I didn't want anything hanging down), book case, window, and four bookcases. I do have six feet of wall space (part of it behind the door when it's opened) that I was planning to put a timeline on but never did. We have four teacher-sized desks in the room, and a small table with our compound and stereo microscopes under one end of the whiteboard. There isn't any excess space. We do our reading in the family room. We also quite often do history and science there. I put our 3' x 4' world and U.S. maps in the foyer, because there was enough wall space to fit both. Our computers are in our study/computer room.
I had up a dry erase board and educational posters. I got a couple of cute white old fashioned desks from Target.
Although we use the whole house, we have two rooms we use for homeschooling. Our game room has a dry erase board on the wall, surrounded by animal alphabets. The kids' desk, reading station, and entertainment station (TV for educational dvds) are up against the wall. This way we have plenty of space to sit in the middle of the room. We also have a big red rug in the middle of the room. The walls are covered with a poster of the presidents, a map of the United States, and educational posters on math and the 8 parts of speech. The office has bookcases and a computer center. On the wall we have the body systems, a map of the world, and motivational posters.
