Do you have a schoolroom for your homeschool?

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Permalink Reply by mel on February 15, 2009 at 7:39am

Karen, we try to do this, too. And of course we use the WHOLE house and WORLD even for our schoolroom. But I do like to have a place where our current books are on a shelf and each child has his/her own writing box to have easy access to their materials. When I didn't have a "school room," we spent more time running around looking for everything. It was very frustrating. And I'm not really organized anyway, so every little bit helps! I hate it when we can't find the book we're reading or the geoboards or whatever! (My oldest is pretty much in charge or her own stuff, and I can't tell you how many times we find her notebooks in the couch cushions or a book behind one of the doors. Well, at least she comes by it honestly. :) I just hope it doesn't take her as long to learn organization as it has taken me! LOL)

Karen said:

I don't want school at home, so to have a classroom/schoolroom would be shooting that whole idea in the foot. We go where ever is most adaptable to the lesson. Office for online stuff, park for nature stuff, table for handwriting, etc.

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Permalink Reply by Amanda Goldston on February 15, 2009 at 9:04am

Hi
Most of our schooling ends up being in my office! Most of the girls books are in here. We have a couple of comfy sofas, so they can do their "school" work and I can work on the computer at the same time. It has to get cleared away when I need to do some recording or need my office as an office. It seems to work quite well.
Amanda

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Permalink Reply by Satori on March 16, 2009 at 8:44am

I just started last month, and I cleared our our second kitchen in the basement we never used. That's where we'll be for most messy arts/crafts and science experiments.

I cleared our our loft landing for a nice comfortable quiet place to read and learn as well. All our books are here.

And our kitchen and deck area are getting alot of use, but because I have designated the first two locations to keep most of our homeschooling stuff, the kitchen never gets too messy.

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Permalink Reply by Marti on March 22, 2009 at 8:16pm

Hi there! I'm new to twitter and to the group! We also have a school room but it's mostly for storage...We always end up at the dining room table. We sure had good intentions when the year started, decorating the school room, having a clean desk (that never lasts long!!!) all of our pens and pencils neatly placed in holders....yadda, yadda, yadda....It's always a MESS now, is used for a "catch all" and to store our growing collection of supplies!!! And yes, the dining table is messy too!!!

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Permalink Reply by Heathen Mom on April 12, 2009 at 12:31pm

We are not the sit in desks in neat little rows kind of family, lol. We are going to get what my kids are calling the laboratory when we finish the basement. It is going to be more of a material storage and messy project type of area.

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Permalink Reply by Krystal on April 12, 2009 at 12:47pm

We do most of our "homeschooling" away from home. :-) I work fulltime as a Children's Librarian and do alot of volunteer work about literacy with local families so we are hardly ever home. My youngest son has always been homeschooled and has always done it on the road, at the library, in the park, at the beach, or at the local Barnes and Noble when I was the Children's Program Director there.

He definitely knows that learning is a 24/7, all-over-the-place adventure! LOL

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