Some tennis courting (carl said I should put "love/love" as the caption for this one- que the gagging sounds),
and froyo (was my first! I think it was good...but how good can sugar free yogurt topped with fruit be? I think if you want it to knock your socks off you have to go all crazy with the bad stuff. Just ask Laurel.)
This the half of the downstairs room where we do school.
The girls "room" takes up the other half.
As the girls get older, I find them asking for more freedome to decorate their own spaces. This can be a challenge for me, but I remember and understand their desire to "make it their own". I find it has worked best for us to look through catalogs or to have them draw pictures of what they want it to look like. Then, we work together to make it happen.
Here is the computer desk.
These shelves are for curriculum in use and craft supplies.
Each girl has her own shelf with different binders and books and supplies that pertain to what they are learning (penmanship, spelling, math, cds for typing, etc.) On top of the shelf is our All About Spelling board and some math games from Right Start Math.
Here's a closer look at our supplies. These plastic bins marked with labels are kind of utilitarian, but they're working for now.
This is our writing table and where I do most of the one-on-one work with the girls. We also put our maps up here and do our geography here. Those hanging file folders are new and I'm just beginning to get those set up. I found the clear pouch for hanging at Oriental Trading, but when I looked for it this morning online I couldn't find it? So far I have folders for Composer Study (we are listening to Mendelssohn and are using these notebook pages), Picture Study (we are looking at Michelangelo and are loving this helpful portfolio), language arts and geography manipulatives (I get tons from Montessori For Everyone)
This bookshelf houses a revolving set of books for free reading, our nature study and social studies books, and the supplies for Laurel to keep our calendar current.
I've put most of these pictures on flickr with little notes that may be more specific about the items on the shelves and tables. Feel free to click through to my homeschooling set and take a look (newest pictures at the end of the set.)
That's it!
Putting food together for dinner (didn't have lemons so I used oranges and traded the fennel for some potatoes). Also taking in a little inspiration (because it is February, and February is a grueling "not quite spring" month for homeschooling). I've only had time to watch a couple of these videos- and with a toddler on my lap, but so far SO good.
Here'something new. We've tried bulletin boards, clip boards, file folders, baskets, binders, etc. None of those solutions have been as cute and functional as this for our assignment sheets. It was easy and cheap! I'm loving it. Instructions here.
I'm going to try and get the girls to clean all the nooks and crannies in their room today. School room tour coming soon!
