Our School Room

Our School Room is an interesting space. There are a lot of doors. Because this is the room you enter from the garage, it also functions as a mudroom of sorts. It's the first room you see when you come in the front door. And it's a walk through to the kitchen. So, I needed to keep a lot of open space for traffic patterns. Thankfully, we had the bookshelves built last year (several months before we ever considered homeschooling!). Who knew how perfect they would be for our homeschool? God! : )

The one window looks out to the backyard. It's perfect for keeping track of backyard play while I'm sitting here on the computer. The cabinets are full of puzzles, math manipulatives, files, and the printer.

The red cabinet is the "craft cabinet" - just full of the basics like crayons, glue, markers, and paper. All the serious supplies are in the basement cabinets. We love that map. I was going to have it framed this summer... waaaay to expensive. It's thumb tacked to the wall. That door is to the garage.

The secretary desk never functions as a desk, just a catch all. The door to the right of the secretary opens to the foyer. The door to the left of it opens to the kitchen. And through that door is the basement door. And the other door, next to the red cabinet, is the coat closet - full of shoes, bags, and coats soon enough. How's that for a tour of doors?

Boxes for the countless works of art created daily.

Hannah and Will have their own sections of the bookshelf.
Hannah on the left. Will on the right.

I think we're ready!
First grade and Pre-K start tomorrow at our house!

*** update 8.10.09 Darcy's Not-Back-to-School Blog Hop ***
We are lounging around the pool in Florida, so these are last year's photos.

*** update 8.13.10 ***
More updated photos can be found here.