Monday, August 8, 2011

Our Classroom

It is time to show off our classroom for the Not Back to School Hop.  I love seeing everyone's classroom.  The truth is the world is every homeschooler's classroom and that is no exception for our family.  We "school" a great deal outside of our home.  In fact, we do a lot of our lessons in the car on the road.  I love books on tape!!



My kids also love to read in their tree house.  


We also do lots of school in doctor and therapy offices.  This year we will have 5 hours of doctor/therapy appointments every week in addition to 5 hours of dance classes each week.


Then there are field trips.  We love to learn out in nature and at museums.  We try to do a field trip every week.

We learn in our library when we are at home.  Our library is the living room that has been re-purposed as a schoolroom/dining room.  Our original dining room is now our sitting room.


Here are our baskets of travel games and small art kits that can travel easily.  When we are leaving the house, I just grab a few things from here to add to our school books.  The photo boxes in the corner are our "continent boxes" for geography.  They are filled with things from all over the world that add so much to our explorations of the continents.


Our home is filled with bookcases.  This one is one of the most important to my homeschool.  I fill it  each year with most of the books we will be using during this particular year.  I pull most of the subjects from our other bookcases at the beginning of the year so I can easily see where we are lacking books that I still need to find.  The desks are for when someone is struggling to concentrate at the table and needs to be able to work alone.  Most of our seat work is done together at the table.


Here is our table and beyond is the piano and more of our bookcases.  We also use the floor space for science projects, art projects and many, many puzzles.




We also use our stairwell for circle time.  There is a calendar, time line, and many posters that we are currently learning.  It is a nice spot for planning the day and using space in an otherwise empty hallway.

Thank you for visiting our homeschool.

Blessings,
Dawn

16 comments:

  1. This the second Not Back To School post I have come across today. I really need to get my act together and gather what I have together. I have most of what I need I just need to sit down and write out what my skeleton is. And then month by month write out my goals of what I want us to strive for.

    Thanks for sharing your world with us. You are a BIG inspiration!

    Blessings and ((HUGS))
    -Mary

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  2. Very nice! Love the tree house :) your bookshelves full of books are dream!

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  3. i love your display of how vast a schoolroom really is.

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  4. I really, really like your geography boxes. We're doing some geography unit studies this year, so I might have to borrow this idea. Your space looks fantastic!

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  5. What fun! We school tons in the car too - mostly last year and less this year, but we love audio books and librivox recordings most of all!! Our favorite is to learn Geography by travelling!!
    Love the pics of where you school!!
    Blessings,
    Janelle

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  6. LOVE your pics! I'm visiting you back from the(not)Back to School blog hop. Have a great school year.

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  7. I love this post! It's nice to see how you have just incorporated the rest of the world as your schoolroom. I tend to see the dr and therapy appointments as intrusions in our school day. It's nice to see a different perspective.

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  8. love the geography boxes. What a great idea. You seem to have a lot of fun activities to do on the go.. Awesome.. Thanks for sharing your schoolroom with us..

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  9. It never ceases to amaze me how much we think alike on some things. If we remain in this house and take it off the market at the end of this month, we plan to switch around our rooms so that our living room becomes our dining room and our dining area becomes a sitting/library area. It was so good for me to see how you have done it with the photos of all your lovely baskets and such. Thank you so much for sharing!

    On the other side, I cannot fathom having to be out of the house for so many hours each week. I am too much a home body, but we each do what we must for our children and there are times and seasons that necessitate all that carschooling. You seem to have adapted to it beautifully.

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  10. Fun post! We school in a lot of the same places. :-) You do a great job in balancing so many things. You encourage me friend!

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  11. Visiting from the Blog Hop. So true that the world is our classroom. Love the treehouse and your schoolroom space! Have a blessed year!

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  12. It is so nice that learning doesn't always have to always be in a desk. I enjoyed seeing photos of your learning spaces.

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  13. Isn't that so true that the world is the classroom? I thought that very thing as I did my post, but I also knew others would want ideas for practical places for things like learning handwriting skills (the easel). I want to pull out old photos and try to recreate what we did in the early years before blogging and digital cameras.
    Blessings,
    Laurie

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  14. What a fun school room! I love the header picture on your blog. Have a wonderful year!

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  15. I love it all!! Such great ideas. That timeline is so stinking cute! Where is it from?

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  16. Thank you for letting me know where it came from! :) And for stopping by! I'm going to go check it out!

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