trying my best Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Lets share our classroom photos here :) Who would be first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trying my best Posted December 30, 2010 Author Share Posted December 30, 2010 (edited) Ok i will go first :) I have a 1st grader (DS5) and a Preschooler (DD2) I also have 2 more kids from the neighberhood coming for Preschool time 3 times a week. So i have 3 Preschoolers all together and 1 1st grader. We use a spare bedroom in our house for School Room. This is our Spelling station for DS5 This is our Preschool station Preschool tables storage shelves DS5's subjects folders Preschool activities DS5's reading books (from readinga-z.com) Edited December 30, 2010 by trying my best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thowell Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 How do you post pictures??!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trying my best Posted December 30, 2010 Author Share Posted December 30, 2010 How do you post pictures??!!!! Upload them in Photobucket.com and then copy the link from it to here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 You can see pictures of ours on my blog. They are in the sidebar, but I believe if you click on one of them it will pull up the photobucket album they are in, so you can see larger versions of them. I moved out a shelf from the corner and put a few more posters on the wall, but I'm too lazy to go take new pictures LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CandaceC Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 I have some pictures of our school room on my blog! Actually quite a few pictures, ha!! I love seeing others school rooms!! Thanks for sharing!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMary2 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Mine are on my blog HERE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mytwomonkeys Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 here's our school room. it's nothing too exciting. i use it mainly for storage & we do our schoolwork all over the house...i'm not sure how to link it in my post...i just can't figure it out. :) http://s186.photobucket.com/albums/x23/elizawill/?action=view¤t=ab747135.pbw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMe Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Here's mine. We just got our desks over Christmas. DD needs to clean hers off as it has toys on it and I still have a little organizing to do. Looks dark, but the pic was taken at night. And don't look through to the other room. It's in AZ and been raining and snowing and I have a mud towel on the floor. :001_huh: http://s250.photobucket.com/albums/gg280/anrsaz/homeschool%20room/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreistetter Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Thanks for sharing your photos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekmom Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Our school room is in the basement. It gets a little chilly in the winter, but I enjoy having a separate area to organize books and focus on school. I know if I were upstairs, I'd be distracted by the dirty dishes, piles of clothes that never seem to get folded/put away, etc... :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trying my best Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 Getting pretty interesting! Reading all the blogs i made my own tonight lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trying my best Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 Our school room is in the basement. It gets a little chilly in the winter, but I enjoy having a separate area to organize books and focus on school. I know if I were upstairs, I'd be distracted by the dirty dishes, piles of clothes that never seem to get folded/put away, etc... :tongue_smilie: It looks SOOOO beautiful! I am jelous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mytwomonkeys Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Our school room is in the basement. It gets a little chilly in the winter, but I enjoy having a separate area to organize books and focus on school. I know if I were upstairs, I'd be distracted by the dirty dishes, piles of clothes that never seem to get folded/put away, etc... :tongue_smilie: i absolutely love your rotating book stand! it is awesome!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekmom Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 It looks SOOOO beautiful! I am jelous! Thank you.... you probably wouldn't be jealous if you knew how many gigantic spiders I have to kill on a daily basis! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekmom Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 i absolutely love your rotating book stand! it is awesome!!!!!!! The rotating book stand was a LUCKY find one day at Goodwill ..$5.00! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homemama2 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 (edited) Kel~ Love it!! That color is great! Creekmom~ Ok...I'm totally jealous too! But the spider comment did help curb my jealousy :D because I'd probably never be able to use the room if it had big spiders, heehee! alilac~ can I just how much I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE your bookcases!!! WOW!!! This is a great thread! I think ALL these rooms are great! I'm going to try to figure out how to post mine now...we just got a new computer and I'm still trying to figure out things. Edited January 1, 2011 by Homemama2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MominIN Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Mine are on my blog. I love looking at other people's school rooms! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my2boysteacher Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Mine are on my blog. I love looking at other people's school rooms! I LOVE your book ledges! May I ask where you found those? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MominIN Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 I LOVE your book ledges! May I ask where you found those? They are rain gutters! They're super cheap and work really well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aoife Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 mine are on my blog as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakereese Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 They are rain gutters! They're super cheap and work really well. Oooh....best idea ever!! Gotta show this to DH!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Kel~Love it!! That color is great! Thanks, It was eggplant and dirty looking purple before we painted it. Here's a before picture when it was still purple and before we switched to a table instead of desks. The new color is so much nicer. Here's the after shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth in SW WA Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Pics of our basement school room here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamouse Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 we never had a 'school room' before, this is actually the music room (soon to have a drum set in addition) and we do school at the table-only here it's the Christmas prep room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Do you have any windows down there? Our basement doesn't ahve windows and is also under construction, so I haven't considered school down there, but your pictures have made me rethink. I will post our pictures this weekend after I take them! (oh, and clean up a bit!) Dawn Our school room is in the basement. It gets a little chilly in the winter, but I enjoy having a separate area to organize books and focus on school. I know if I were upstairs, I'd be distracted by the dirty dishes, piles of clothes that never seem to get folded/put away, etc... :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meet me in paris Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Pics of our basement school room here. LOVE your school room - and it does *not* look/feel like a basement! (My basements have always been dark and dank LOL) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekmom Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Do you have any windows down there? Our basement doesn't ahve windows and is also under construction, so I haven't considered school down there, but your pictures have made me rethink. I will post our pictures this weekend after I take them! (oh, and clean up a bit!) Dawn No windows...which is why the paint is bright yellow and blue. I would love a school room with windows, but we have no room upstairs. You should have seen the basement before it became my summer project to create a school room! The biggest expense was putting in a wall to divide that side of the basement in half. If it's even possible to turn your space into a school room, I highly recommend it. It also helps get the kids into "school mode" to have a separate area devoted to learning. I've never been able to make school part of every day life; I have to separate it from "home life" or else I can't relax when the school part of our day is over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanna1949 Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 At the moment, I don't have pictures of the schoolroom, but I'm certainly getting ideas from all of you. Thanks!! As I write this, our room is a big mess, and I've been planning to straighten things up after Christmas. Since we're supposed to start back to school on Monday, I guess I know what I'll be doing tomorrow & Sunday afternoon! :eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threeturn Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Here is ours from last spring. Most of the Montessori items are gone now (we are shifting focus) so the shelves are filled with different things, but most everything else is the same. Fun looking at everyones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threeturn Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Rain gutter book ledges are the BEST idea ever! So cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechWife Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Here is a link to some pictures of our school room. The bookshelves have filled up considerably since I took them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 I'm drooling over here! You ladies have awesome school rooms! At the moment, I have nowhere to put a school room. My house has so many windows that it's hard to even find a spot to put up a white board. I'm thinking in the future I might put the school room in a bedroom upstairs, but right now it's being used by a toddler who is not moving to his brothers' room quite yet (we'd already planned for all 3 to share a room eventually). Plus at this point, I really need to be able to flit back and forth since I have 2 littles under foot. So in the meantime, we'll be doing school work at the kitchen table, pull out a 2'x3' white board as we need it (it's tucked behind a dresser in my room), we store our books on a shelf in the living room, and art supplies/math manipulatives/etc. are kept in a couple rolling carts that have 10 drawers (the nice ones at Sam's for $30)... in my bedroom where little hands can't get into them. :tongue_smilie:So basically, the "schoolroom" is spanning the kitchen, living room, and my bedroom. I would have loved to make my living room a school room, but floor vent placement, air intake placement, and a gazillion windows prevent me from being able to get what I want in there. My house is not small, but the way the rooms are laid out, it's hard to find a big chunk of wall space for anything but a few pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMe Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 we never had a 'school room' before, this is actually the music room (soon to have a drum set in addition) and we do school at the table-only here it's the Christmas prep room. I love this room! It's cozy, and homey and welcoming! Love the fireplace in there too! I waaaaannnnnt itttttt.:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 This is our old one in China. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my2boysteacher Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 I just posted our schoolroom here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 I have a couple of issues at the moment: The basement is under construction....framing and insulation is in, but it needs to be drywalled now. Second issue is trying to get some space FROM DH. He has plans for a toal man cave down there.....TV/media area, workout area, a rec room area, and a storage/pantry area.....I am not sure there is any space left! Dawn No windows...which is why the paint is bright yellow and blue. I would love a school room with windows, but we have no room upstairs. You should have seen the basement before it became my summer project to create a school room! The biggest expense was putting in a wall to divide that side of the basement in half. If it's even possible to turn your space into a school room, I highly recommend it. It also helps get the kids into "school mode" to have a separate area devoted to learning. I've never been able to make school part of every day life; I have to separate it from "home life" or else I can't relax when the school part of our day is over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 (edited) Here are a couple pics of my room. It is the sunroom, so I don't have much wall space, which is a bit of a challenge. Edited January 2, 2011 by DawnM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBS Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 YOu all have lovely spaces, with or without sunshine/windows, fancy or simple, they all radiate love, enrichment, love, learning, love. Before "real" funiture, first my dining room, then half of large living room, then spare bedroom, all were the kids' play/work rooms, though not for homeschooling. We loved those spaces! Now, with just a 14 year old highschooler, we put him in the 2nd largest bedroom, and put shelves and tables in, and gathered all the books from big brother, big sister, and library/family room shelves, that he might use for his high school career (had to make a "lending/borrowing contract" with sister, who guards her books carefully, including a bent page/water damage clause. :lol:) We keep going back to Ikea for more shelving. He had a hodgepodge of several types of shelving, but we liked the $30 Ikea model (low profile, tall, sturdy) so much we switched out to all that style. He just inherited a larger screen TV to play DVD/VHS stuff on, and got handed down a larger monitor for his computer, which gives his room a nice "tech" feeling, as appeals to him. He does tend to hole up in his room, a bit, but I purposely have not put a sofa, or big easy chair in his room, so he comes downstairs to large, upholstered places to do reading and such and I reserved a space downstairs for any books he is currently reading/working in. This system seems to work. He wanted to paint his room blue, and I was thinking pale, but seeing so many of your rooms in rich, sky blues, I think I'll give him that. He does keep his bedroom side of the room, toyed up, and messy, but separated from the school area, on his own. I love seeing the great spaces you all have designed! I am impressed with the lack of stuff on the floor, too. Our floors seem to be just another piling spot. Maybe that's me, the main piler, though. Happy New Year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMe Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Here are a couple pics of my room. It is the sunroom, so I don't have much wall space, which is a bit of a challenge. I'd take all that light over wall space anytime! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYoungerMrsWarde Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Soooooo jealous! We are renting a small (990 sq feet) townhouse without even a dinning area! The computer is at the bottom of the stairs, the reading area is at the top of the stairs. School happens mostly at the activity table in front of the never-used fireplace, which makes handwriting almost impossible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindyz Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 (edited) I LOVE seeing all of the school rooms. It's great for new inspiration! Here is ours. When we moved into this house, this room was the laundry room. We moved the laundry room to another area and turned this into the school room. This room had two very very small old windows that opened from the center OUT with no screens. I had these new windows put in their place. I put a huge window in the school room because I knew we would be spending a lot of time in it. In the summer, we have a beautiful view of the woods behind our house. We have the view in the winter as well, but it's just not quite as beautiful. Eventually, I plan to set up a wild life station to lure birds and animals for our studying pleasure! :D :D I still need to get some window treatments but I just haven't found what I want yet. We don't need them for privacy since our house is in the middle of our 5 acres and nobody can see into them, but I think they would soften the room up a bit. We do most of our work at the table by the big window. He sits in the adjustable chair with the stool for his feet to rest on. The table on the left is the art table. Supplies are left out at all times for him to create art or for writing if the urge hits him. There are more supplies in the red boxes to the right of the art table. Here we have bookcase and storage above it. There's a lot of room in the storage area. It contains art supplies, school supplies, new curricula that we are waiting to use and in some cases, old curricula that we have finished. You can see our latest PR lesson on the whiteboard and our ongoing habitat posters and desert diorama which are part of Elemental Science biology. This wall will be changed this summer. I'm going to move the art project clip line up higher, get rid of the AAS whiteboard and tiles since we no longer use AAS and use the space for a world map. This is where most of the current curricula can be found. The three black bins on the right of the lower bookcase hold our current books. The binders in the taller bookcase hold most of our completed work separated by subject. At the end of the year, I will pull everything from the binders and pick the best items to bind with a comb binder as a keepsake for the year. The bins and shelves hold art supplies, readers and many many math manipulatives. Inside the bookcase are shelves of learning games. Next to the binder you can also see our squeezebox boom which streams music from my computer into the school room. This is how we play music for our classical music studies as well as song school latin, internet radio and audio books without having to bother with cds all over the place. It can also be moved all around the house to listen to whatever we want wherever we want. It even has batteries so it can be used outside. This way we have our entire music/audio collection at our fingertips all around and even outside our house! In another room of our house we have an office with a continuous desk covering two walls with full windows on both walls. All three of us have our own computer space (3 computers). This way, we each have our own computer, but he can be supervised at all times on his computer. Here he is checking out headventureland.com. For reading, we either snuggle on the couch or get in our bed. He will do his own reading on his bed or on the couch or anywhere really! Edited January 3, 2011 by Cindyz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybear Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I LOVE seeing all of the school rooms. It's great for new inspiration! Here is ours. When we moved into this house, this room was the laundry room. We moved the laundry room to another area and turned this into the school room. This room had two very very small old windows that opened from the center OUT with no screens. I had these new windows put in their place. I put a huge window in the school room because I knew we would be spending a lot of time in it. In the summer, we have a beautiful view of the woods behind our house. We have the view in the winter as well, but it's just not quite as beautiful. Eventually, I plan to set up a wild life station to lure birds and animals for our studying pleasure! :D :D I still need to get some window treatments but I just haven't found what I want yet. We don't need them for privacy since our house is in the middle of our 5 acres and nobody can see into them, but I think they would soften the room up a bit. We do most of our work at the table by the big window. He sits in the adjustable chair with the stool for his feet to rest on. The table on the left is the art table. Supplies are left out at all times for him to create art or for writing if the urge hits him. There are more supplies in the red boxes to the right of the art table. Here we have bookcase and storage above it. There's a lot of room in the storage area. It contains art supplies, school supplies, new curricula that we are waiting to use and in some cases, old curricula that we have finished. You can see our latest PR lesson on the whiteboard and our ongoing habitat posters and desert diorama which are part of Elemental Science biology. This wall will be changed this summer. I'm going to move the art project clip line up higher, get rid of the AAS whiteboard and tiles since we no longer use AAS and use the space for a world map. This is where most of the current curricula can be found. The three black bins on the right of the lower bookcase hold our current books. The binders in the taller bookcase hold most of our completed work separated by subject. At the end of the year, I will pull everything from the binders and pick the best items to bind with a comb binder as a keepsake for the year. The bins and shelves hold art supplies, readers and many many math manipulatives. Inside the bookcase are shelves of learning games. Next to the binder you can also see our squeezebox boom which streams music from my computer into the school room. This is how we play music for our classical music studies as well as song school latin, internet radio and audio books without having to bother with cds all over the place. It can also be moved all around the house to listen to whatever we want wherever we want. It even has batteries so it can be used outside. This way we have our entire music/audio collection at our fingertips all around and even outside our house! In another room of our house we have an office with a continuous desk covering two walls with full windows on both walls. All three of us have our own computer space (3 computers). This way, we each have our own computer, but he can be supervised at all times on his computer. Here he is checking out headventureland.com. For reading, we either snuggle on the couch or get in our bed. He will do his own reading on his bed or on the couch or anywhere really! I love this room. I love the colors you have in it. I love the way you've set it up. Wonderful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockermom Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 All of these photos and blog posts are so cool to see!! I just posted about the work I've been doing in our playschool area (it is used for both play and school). I long to have a dedicated school room one day. Here is a link to the post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsiew Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Here's a blog post with my picts. The white board is hung (it wasn't when I took the picts) I'm also adding this contraption, from Ikea, to the wall with the maps to hang the maps from with these clips... my hubby just needs to mount it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakereese Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Here's a blog post with my picts. The white board is hung (it wasn't when I took the picts) I'm also adding this contraption, from Ikea, to the wall with the maps to hang the maps from with these clips... my hubby just needs to mount it. I have that contraption from Ikea, it is awesome!! A homeschooler's dream! LOL Love your cozy spot. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazymom4 Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Great ideas! Our school room is still under construction from our move....a year ago:eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindyz Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I'm also adding this contraption, from Ikea, to the wall with the maps to hang the maps from with these clips... my hubby just needs to mount it. This is what's holding up the artwork on the walls in my post above. They are really neat and not too hard to put up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I have been meaning to get to IKEA to get some of these. Dawn This is what's holding up the artwork on the walls in my post above. They are really neat and not too hard to put up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland_Mom Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 (edited) Here is our new school room. We completed it in October, 2010. I still have some "decorating" to do, but I wanted to post anyway. Edited January 3, 2011 by Pylegang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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