Our Homeschool Classroom
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Each family’s home is SO different, so I am going to show you what we have done in our home. Maybe a few of my things will be able to help you out a little in your school room. I had to do some major cleaning and organization to prepare for these photos! 🙂
When I started homeschooling, we were living in my parent’s basement while my husband finished his master’s degree. We didn’t have much space, but we were able to make it work just fine.
Our Homeschool Classroom
Last year, we moved and have been blessed with a GIANT play/school room. I love this room so much because I have been able to make a space for all of our things.
I still keep all of the homeschool things separate from the regular toys. I have a shelf that is just for our educational/learning toys. The kids know that these don’t come out all the time and that they have to be taken care of and not mixed in with their toys.
A few things we use regularly in our homeschool classroom:
Stocking a homeschool classroom can get pricey. I know! Â There are a few things that will make your life easier, but really, you can make do with very little. Thank goodness for the library.
See my Essential Homeschool Supply List Here!
- Last year I got a great laser color printer. I LOVE it! As we all know…homeschoolers have to print a LOT of stuff.
- My laminator is so wonderful! I use it all the time! I have a Scotch Thermal laminator.
- I just got a binding machine (another great thrift store find!) I have been printing out some of my files & making workbooks. It’s been a fun project!
- File cabinets & file boxes
- Dry Erase boards
- A Globe
- Lots of bookshelves
- Lots of paper, paint, glue, scissors… I love stocking up this time of year when everything is on sale
- Recycled trash- save all those t.p. rolls, milk jugs, tin cans, water bottles, and egg cartons. We use these things all the time for art!
- The great outdoors!!
Everywhere! We homeschool at home, in the car, and outside.
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Our dining room, but we always end up outside.
I converted my den into our school room…small bur workable.
Due to a 683 sq. ft. apt. on campus at our mission board (we’re in language studies/missions training as full-time missionaries with To Every Tribe) we don’t have a classroom. The kitchen table is often used, the kids have a desk in their room and we go outside a LOT to learn!
Ours is an extension of the dining room. The walls need work. There are four desks with computers. The books and supplies are all stored in another room.
We school in the living room or wherever we happen to be. I do have 2 school desks in the living room, along with the couches. Our computer is also hooked up to use our tv as a monitor so we can all see it.
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Our homeschool room has a table in the middle with a book shelf in the corner. I use the window ledge to display our nature study finds. The closet is filled with my crate that holds our master plan for the year and craft supplies.
Very nice {and large} space! I too have a designated room for school. Thanks for sharing yours. 🙂
We have a 3/2 Villa in Florida. Aside from the bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen we have a great room where we accommodate our living area, dining area, play area and…you guessed it our homeschool. We thank God each day for Ikea because it has made the room feel so much larger than it is. It is a large space but when you are utilizing it for four different purposes it can get crowded quickly. Our sofa and dining room table/chairs are from Ikea. We also recently purchased Ikea’s Trofast storage system where we are now storing toys and homeschool materials. I love this because I can keep the homeschool materials out of reach from my 15 month old and her toys at her level of reach. I also love that I can keep extra bins stored in the guest/mom/toy (LOL!) room, and rotate toys. We also have 2 shoe bins from Ikea with 4 bins in each. They are great because they are positioned against the wall and their depth is approximately 6 inches from the wall. The bins tilt out. We use 2 of the bins for shoes and the rest are for homeschool materials. We are looking forward to acquiring a third and final bin this year. My wonderful husband has built gallery ledges for our frames and will build some more which we will use to display current curriculum and artwork (I have my eye on this great frame at Target which displays and stores drawings and pictures). I love that my girls’ books will be up for them to see and be proud of and excited about. We’re still working out the details on everything, but with my oldest being a preschooler I’m pretty proud of us and feel that we’re ahead of the game here which is quite exciting. So in a rather large nutshell, that’s our classroom setup.
My kitchen table.
we are just getting started. Mostly in the living room or dining room table. I love your large room. maybe someday.
We have an open floor plan with our living room and dining room combined. We have never used the dining room as a dining room (because we use the kitchen table for all of our meals), so we are making much better use of the dining room space and it will be an actual school space. Before it was just an emptyish room where the kids could make a big mess with toys. Win/win!
We live in a small apartment so we homeschool where ever we are comfortable and have the room. I do have book shelves and bins galore with school stuff and art supplies. We’re hoping to eventually move somewhere where we can actually have some room. LOL
We have a room dedicate to homeschooling. It has bookcases, reading area, a nice long toddler size table, wall art, and bulletin boards and pocket charts.
Cool rooms, this is our first year of homeschool, any tips! Thank you for the opportunity of the giveaway, anything will help me this year!
We have a room in our unfinished basement that we made into a school room but we float all over. http://hydrangeasandharmony.blogspot.com/2012/08/homeschool-room-updated.html 🙂 Great giveaway! Thanks for hosting.
We have a lovely UNFINISHED schoolhouse. So homeschool room for now is the coffee table in the living room, with a big container of markers in the middle and room to spread out crafts and workbooks and laptops…
we have two we run most of the week in one house while one is working,then we finish the rest of the week here– in the kitchen, and on the computer–so mine isn’t finish yet–a work in progress, as money comes in
A desk and craft supplies in the dining room, 6 bookshelves and two bean bags to make a reading room in the basement, a rocking chair in the living room, a proch swing out front, the swing set out back, and bunk beds upstairs when they want to read to their favorite animal. 🙂
Just starting my first year… Planning on our office/baby’s room while baby naps in my room. Thanks for look into your homeschool!
We use our small extra bedroom for our main schooling however depending on the lesson you will often find us doing a lesson down at our property’s creek, mountains or in our largest room in the house, our family room.
We do a lot of it at our kitchen table (my son’s preschool/kindergarten, so we’re just starting), but we hve a little “station” set up downstairs as well!
the living room; with a table and storage boxes
We school at the kitchen table and at random desk placed in the same area. I store our school stuff in a couple of diffent places, stuff not being use right away is in a closet in the play room. Stuff we are using now is in a repurposed wooden bar (thrift store find!!) Its a large wooden cabnet with doors.
Our living room, we use a lot of shelf to keep it organized.
my kitchen is my classroom…. very sunny.
We use our living room.
We don’t have the space for a strictly homeschool classroom. For us, learning is part of life anyway, but much of our learning takes place in the living room or dining room.
This is the first time in years that I’ve had a room dedicated to homeschooling. It’s small, but cozy and cheerful. My girls like it, but we need more bookshelves! ;0)
Your room looks really nice. It’s nice to have that space and be organized. It’s so fun to see all these school rooms!
I’ll be traveling across the country from Oregon to Michigan and back to Oregon with my kids. I’d love to have that atlas! I love your school room!
These would work great for my kids! Thank you for the opportunity! We have a very small house, but it has a large dining room, so one half of the dining room is our school room. 🙂
Our classroom is the kitchen table for their desk and my desk beside it. We have a four tier cabinet where each child has their own shelf to hold their school supplies and books. Our table has storage benches so we store games, art and craft supplies in them.
My kids are currently in PreK, so we do a lot of reading on the couch, some work at the kitchen table & spend a lot of time outside.
This is our first year homeschooling and we don’t have much of an area. Our house doesn’t have the extra space for an actual classroom. We’ll be using our breakfast area for most of our work that we do inside.
We do school work everywhere, especially outside, at the park, etc.
Thanks so much!
Wow! What a nice big space you have!! And LOVE those school desks— super cool!