School Room 2013
Well as promised, here is the tour of our school room for the year! I have to say I have added quite a bit of homey elements to make it more like a room then a school. I wanted learning to be comfortable and feel like a part of life, not something that we do only in one place. Another difference is that I have places a great emphasis on art and creating. As I mentioned before, I love the book (and blog) the Artful Parent. This idea of making your family artful by allowing art to happen, made me think about making our homeschool an artful homeschool. I want to make learning something that really inspired them to create and make it theirs. So there is lots of art materials and space to work. I also added some more of those childrens art frames that open to pop in a new paper easily! I love that it give the girls work a sense of importance and it also makes things feel warm and cozy! Another thing I did was make a chalk board for our studies. I realized that we used our little chalk board a lot last year and I wanted a bigger one. I couldn’t find one, so I made it (my hubbie helped out a bit)! It turned out really well and I love how it looks! Finally, when I reorganized our school room in the spring I moved things all around so that there was no subject specific areas. Thing were placed where they fit best and where they looked prettiest. This was fine, but I realized that having things arranged by subject made more sense for me and for the girls. So back in order things went, but I still tried to use a few pieces as decorative to make it look pretty too! Well, you can be the judge! Let me know what you think! I like it. I am sure that we will change things as we go and you will it! Here is what it looks like now!
This is our Art Shelf.
Here is my chalk board! I think it is so pretty! I think we will really make a lot of use of this!
This is our sensorial area (more or less). This is all out because I know that when we have friends over, these are all things that we can share easily!
This is botany, weaving, practical life trays (I haven’t made them yet) and our bells.
This is our language area. The basket of animals are going to be the base of our grammar work! I plan to use them instead of the farm. We can make sentences using aniamls and landscapes from different continents! Thus combining our geography and language!
This is a little bit more random. we have some geography work on the top part. This is where we will have a changing continent shelf that the girls can decorate each month. On the bottom there are fraction circle, Bunny’s robotics kit, and the geometry sticks.
Finally here is our math area! You can see all the regular math works! Bead fram, golden beads, sandpaper numbers, etc.
Here is an overview of the shelves so you can see it all together!
Here is our main work table. I have some new frames here and also our nature tray! I think it looks much better! I made a geography inspired art set for the area. I love this Mother Thresa quote. It seemed perfect!
This is Pup’s work area and the stairs upstairs.
This is Bunny’s desk. You can see she is already making her area hers! 🙂
So there you have it! What do you think? I really like it! I think that it is a beautiful space and I hope that it will help make learning a bit more fun. Some how having the best space possible seems to make learning more inspiring and important. Don’t you think? How is your learning space? What does it look like? Leave a link! I love to see where others are learning! Happy Schooling!
August 16, 2013 @ 2:33 am
Gorgeous Stephanie! I think your shelves are beautifully organized and I’m glad you found what works best for your family. I love your chalkboard, nature tray, pop of green on the wall next to your stairs and the art supplies. It’s a beautifully designed space. Your girls are going to have so much fun learning this year.
August 17, 2013 @ 12:23 am
Thanks Lori! I love it too. I really hope that they have fun learning! The pop of green is one of the girls art work pieces. The frames open up from the front, so I can change them out when they make a new masterpiece! I’m glad you stopped by! Its good to hear from you!
August 16, 2013 @ 2:49 am
Wow! All your hard work really paid off, it looks fantastic. There is nothing better than clean, orderly space to start the school year off right. We are first year homeschoolers, started last week, but still haven’t gotten around to doing our school room tour on the blog. I love what you did with the art shelves. Unfortunately, due to space constraints, our art supplies are in a separate room. I wish I could have them handy like you do. *sigh* Maybe someday. Thank you for sharing your inspirational space.
August 17, 2013 @ 12:28 am
Hi Suzy! Thanks so much! I am glad you stopped by! Congrates on beginning your homeschooling journey! I hope you get a post up soon! I would love to see your! The girls love the art shelf. I think that no matter where the art supplies are, so long as they make art, everyone is happy!
August 16, 2013 @ 3:25 am
You have created a beautiful work environment for your children…looks very similar to our Montessori classroom space as well. I love your bells!
August 17, 2013 @ 12:29 am
Thanks Jodi! We love it! I will have to stop by and see your space!
August 16, 2013 @ 4:11 am
I really love it! Great space. So neat and organized and inspiring. Makes me want to send Bear and J-jo to your house for school:)
August 17, 2013 @ 12:32 am
Hahaha! too bad you don’t live closer! We could have co-op days! I love all the language work you do! I am hoping an organized space makes the year a bit better!
August 16, 2013 @ 7:56 am
Wow!! That was fast!!!! Are you related to flash!!! It looks great!!! God job!!!
August 17, 2013 @ 12:32 am
Thanks Monica! It really wasn’t too fast. I was working on it all week!:) I just didn’t post it in real time! 🙂
August 17, 2013 @ 8:45 am
I love your classroom. It’s so beautiful! Your children are really lucky…
August 17, 2013 @ 12:10 pm
Thanks so much! Glad you stopped by!
August 17, 2013 @ 9:52 am
It’v very organised and I love the relaxing colour! I’m in envy as your school is half the size of our house! I miss Canada and the useful basements 🙂
August 17, 2013 @ 12:11 pm
Hahaha! Basements are really useful! I really don’t know where were would put stuff if I didn’t have that! Thanks for visiting!
August 17, 2013 @ 5:05 pm
So jealous of all of your shelves and of the fact you have a basement! Have a good school year!
August 19, 2013 @ 12:55 am
Thanks! I hope that you have a good year too!
August 17, 2013 @ 10:35 pm
Okay, just have to say your built-in’s may or may not be part of my dreams when I dream of school (yes, I know – that’s pretty sad sounding! hahaha I guess that’s what teacher-moms do!). I love your room, and the way you have it set up! I would leave a link to ours, but at the moment it’s not at all ready for school and we are a week out (EEK!) Hope you have a wonderful start to your school year!
August 19, 2013 @ 12:59 am
Hahahaha! I think all of us teacher moms dream of lots of pretty school things! 🙂 Plus, I am sure you are going to get your room ready in plenty of time! I wasn’t going to start for another week either, but my girls seem to need something to do! Huh! Who knew! I hope your year is awesome!
August 18, 2013 @ 2:54 am
What a cute school room! I can’t wait to move to a new house and hopefully have an official school room! Squeee! 🙂
August 19, 2013 @ 1:01 am
Ohhh…sounds exciting! I hope you get your new house soon! Nothing more exciting then a new space! Thanks for popping by! Thanks for your sweet comment!
August 18, 2013 @ 9:24 pm
Wow Stephanie!!!! We LOVE IT!!! SO beautiful, organize, neat!!!!! Love the art area!!, and of course you Chalkboard!!!!! You are an artist!!!! Great Job my friend, LOVELY, LOVELY SPACE!! Thanks for share it!! Lots of love and hugs!!
August 19, 2013 @ 1:03 am
I am glad you like it! The chalkboard turned out well! I think we are going to use it a lot! 🙂 Sending lots of hugs to you too!
August 20, 2013 @ 6:22 pm
Love your space and those bookcases!! 🙂 You have a BEAUTIFUL family!! Have a wonderful year learning together.
August 21, 2013 @ 12:10 am
Thanks ever so much! I hope that you have a wonderful year too! I am so happy you stopped by!
March 4, 2014 @ 8:48 pm
I just stumbled across your blog and I love your space! Would you mind sharing where the fabric for your pillows is from? Do you know the name of it? Thanks!
March 5, 2014 @ 6:43 pm
I makes my day when I have a new visitor! I have searched the web for this fabric to send you a link, but I bought it a few years ago at Joann Fabrics and it is gone! The designer was Alexander Henry and the print is called You & Me. I found a similar print that is available in limited supplies here. http://www.fabricparadise.com/cgi-bin/fabricshop/gallery.cgi?func=show&file=230&Category=19&Page=2&v=1#.Uxdu3CUo7IU
But it appears to be just the cute faces! Hope that helps a bit! Glad you stopped by!