Our Schoolroom

Want to see our schoolroom?  Forewarning- I change it all the time :)  So it may not look like this next time you come and visit!

Here you can see where the alphabet is for Evie.  She loves looking at the pictures.  They are from My Father's World, and they are the best I have seen.  You can easily make your own, of course.
You can also see the table where we sit for school, and the lovely china cabinet where we store our books and supplies.  I love it because I can see the books.  It may look cluttery but if I don't see what we have I forget about it.  And last but not least, you can see our story chair.  Kylie likes to sit there when we listen to stories online.  If you can believe it, three of us squeeze into that chair quite often. :)

 Here is Evie's calendar.  She doesn't want to do it one day at a time, and insists we put all the numbers up for the whole month.  I'm rolling with it :)  And, we store some of our materials in this rack.

 Our lovely map.  We have the US one behind that.  I hope to teach these kiddos some geography because I did not grow up knowing any!  It's been fun to learn.

 This is a little chart we keep for The Burgess Animal Book.  We got the pictures from Lindafay's Shutterfly album here.

We get to see a lot of birds, squirrels and spiders as we look out these windows.  We also keep our art supplies here and some books that are staples.

Evie's "day of the week" and "weather" charts.  I got these from another blog that had these as free templates. I printed, laminated, and put velcro on.  I can't remember the website at the moment.

Our science bucket.  Field guides, binoculars, and magnifying glass for when we need them.

This board shows the our "per term" selections:  composer, hymn, artist, and folksong.  We get these selections from www.amblesideonline.org.

Here are the main books we are using this term.  We get all of this from Ambleside Online as well.

So there you go!  We don't do everything in this room.  Sometimes we need a change of scenery.  But this is our home base, and it helps a lot that it is on the main floor and next to the kitchen.  We tried two other rooms before we finally figured out this was the best one!  We don't have an official dining room anymore, but fortunately we didn't use it anyway.  :)