Fixer Upper: My Homeschool Room Makeover| Homeschool Diaries

After deciding to homeschool last year, we took the time to assemble some desks and bookcases. With a nice little office off of the master bedroom, we pulled together a pretty space for me and the kids to enjoy while we homeschool. What's interesting is although I used it all year, I never really went through and rearranged (and culled) to suit us. We finished up our first year of homeschool (shifted schedule, YAY!) so I took the opportunity to rearrange, cull unused or misplaced items and generally streamline things. Just call it a good thorough spring cleaning, homeschool style.
Without further ado, welcome to my new(ish) homeschool room!




Peeking through the French Doors that separate our bedroom from the office.

It's nice that we have doors and can shut off the classroom when it isn't in use. With the French doors, we get the mixed blessing of lots of natural light from the bedroom windows and being able to see directly into the classroom after hours. Turning off the lights and closing the blinds does the trick pretty well, but it needs to stay pretty organized or all the open surfaces look messy very quickly.





This cubby unit holds most of my supplies, the keyboard is slightly out of the way with rarely used supplies in the corner.

I love this cubby for organization, but by the end of last year, everything but the kitchen sink found it's way into one of the cubbies. I stripped things way back and it functions much better.



Everything in it's place. I give it a week.

From upper left: Mickey and my scrapbooking supplies, my instructor guides, calendar and "the sharp scissors", Minnie and crafting supplies.
Middle: Bible study supplies, binders containing all the calendars, copies and worksheets for the year by subject and week, sticky things box (glue stick, Elmer's glue, tapes) and anything that writes.
Bottom: Bag on left contains blog stuff, homeschool books and magazines and kid's craft supplies, paper (everything from printer to t-shirt transfer), stationary box and a time capsule and a pencil sharpener.




Both kids' desks have open cubbies on the end. 

Last year these shelves brimmed with sets of cardboard magazine racks. It worked well, for a time. After a while things got "lost" shoved into the bottom of the various magazine boxes. Stream lined was the name of the game. Each child has a single, sturdier magazine box this year.



Top Shelf Work

Each kid's top shelf contains everything they need for the week. Their weekly planner carries all of their calenders, handwriting pages, math drills and language arts pages. The big binder is for all their completed work for the year. The single magazine holder contains all of the workbooks they will need for the year. Math flashcards and stationary round out the top shelf.



Fun stuff on the bottom shelf.

Between the two kid's desk is a foot or two of no man's land. It gives me space to work with each kid individually. It keeps them from poking at each other quite as much.
Everyone is happier.
The rest of the books that the kids need everyday occupy the bottom shelf. They've got easy access for their independent readers, their Q&A a Day for Kids and Timeline books for school as well as a Bible Doodle Book, coloring books and construction paper for fun. Each kid has all of the supplies they could ever want in their desk drawer.



Back right bookshelf contains all of our group read aloud books, the instructors guides for the year and maps.

We keep one bookshelf easily accessible with all of the science, history and bible study books that we read together.

The last thing added all over our school room is a big dose of pixie dust.



Mickey ears, pictures of the kids last day of private school and my very own droid.

Sprinkled all over the room.



Yes, my whole world is turned upside down, from time to time.

I love my room!

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 Have you made any changes to your homeschool room over time?