Our New Schoolroom

I am so excited to start our new school year this week!  While Tony was home, we did a lot of work on the schoolroom to get things more organized and just BETTER for this year.  I have been wanting  cube style storage for our classroom since we first started this homeschooling journey last October and finally we got some.  I love that every cube has a purpose and everything is grouped together by subject or activity.  It's GREAT!

This is just my cute binder cover I made for organizing lessons and all of our important school papers and schedules for this year.

Even though I already have the cubes organized, I know without a doubt, they're going to be changed up some.  I already intend to move some of the around today actually. ha! ;) This low area below the window is the Reading Center area.  I have always been a collector of books and I love how I'm able to group them together in certain ways here for the kids so they don't have to tear through all the books to look for a certain one.  Tony would be proud of me, because I have all the fun fiction picture books organized both in ABC order and by author. Those are the top two left hand cubes.  The next cube are the audio books.  My kids LOVE audio books and so do I.  Our great informational books from Southwestern Book Company are in the next cube.  One whole cube is devoted to Dr. Seuss, one cube are the leveled readers, then there is a cube of non-fiction, and then the cube with the dictionaries and other books like that! :) The dot baskets on top hold the books that are too large for the cubes and also all of the children's music cd's.

Here is our calendar area and this area is probably going to change somewhat also.  I've ordered a bulletin board tree for Noah's letters to be hung on as he masters them this year and so the tree is going to go on one of our walls somewhere.

I love these for their chairs since they don't have traditional desks, these help with holding their daily school supplies.

The bookcase holds all our games and puzzles that are too large for the cubes as well as all the chapter books.

That small wooden table was our desk last year, but we outgrew it in a major way so this year it's my desk and organizing area and it's also going to serve as the computer center where they will work on their computer learning games and typing skills.  

I really hope to update this blog again often with our family news and homeschooling goings on.  I plan to blog all about our chickens next! ;)