Our School Room

Today I thought it might be fun to show you around our "school" room. It is not very clean or organized, but it gets the job done. Our school room is actually a sun room / mud room right off our kitchen. There are plenty of windows, so it is a very bright, happy room.

We are currently renovating our house, so eventually this room will get a fresh coat of paint and new light fixtures. But for now, this is what it looks like. We have a huge table that we inherited from my brother and sister-in-law. If you look in the back of the room, you can see our IKEA chalkboard (where Lucy's sight words are written) and the bunny hutch (this has now been moved out to our screened porch). There is some twine and clothespins hanging across the windows, so that I can display Lucy and Alice's artwork. In this photo, we still have our Valentines and snowflakes up, but I just took those down to make room for our spring projects. And in the back corner is Alice's play kitchen, so that she can "cook" while Lucy has her lessons.

On the opposite wall, we have all of our storage! These wire drawers contain some of our school supplies...

... and this bookshelf contains everything else. In the bottom shelves, I keep toys for Alice to play with during "school". The top shelves are for Lucy's books and lessons. I use the wooden trays to set out her "lessons" each day. There is a tray for Reading and another for Numbers / Handwriting (we have each every other day). The trays allow her more ownership of her assignments; she can go to the shelf and get her work all by herself and then put it away when she is finished. 

And this is where we spend most of our days! We do so much more in this room than have "school". We play in here, eat lunch in here most days, do art projects, read... It's usually an epic mess, but I love it all the more for that.