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Schoolroom
        
It's really a misnomer. We tried having a dedicated schoolroom
in one of the upstairs bedrooms. I was ready to have a stiff drink by
the time we got done with school having all of us cooped up in that tiny
bedroom. So, we just slowly incorporated most of the house into
our homeschooling.
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They read on the floor, they listen on the floor, they color on
the floor...they like the floor. My only rule is that if
they don't write neatly while they're on the floor, they have to
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One of the things I like is the dining room table
that Dave's uncle decoupaged for us. I wanted a permanent
world map on the table, so he just used decoupage for the map
and polyurethane over the top. We use wipe-off markers on
it all the time and they wipe right off! |
I'd been struggling with what to do with all the kids' books.
The little kids had their own desks, but the big kids never sat at them,
anyway (remember the floor discussion, above?).
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my
messy
math mani-
pulatives
shelf
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and for WHATEVER reason, they just COULD NOT keep
their books on the shelves! After extensive research (i.e. asking all my
friends) I discovered their kids couldn't put books away standing up on
shelves, too! So I needed to get something that would hold regular
sized books. I got plastic boxes from Target for $1 and
that's where they keep the ones that they use. (the boxes are in the top
of the picture above my head)
Just to round out the topic of where we do school, I asked my husband
to pose in my usual place during school...
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We don't really have a "schoolroom", anymore. It just didn't
work for us. But here are some people that do (and they're houses are
cleaner than mine). http://www.ollhomeschoolresources.com/homeschool_photos.htm
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