Our schoolroom

Some of the ladies on homeschoolshare have wondered how other families organize.  I thought I'd take pictures of our new schoolroom (since we have moved) to show how and where we keep things.

This one is a picture of our new bookshelves (under $30 each at Menard's).  On the left, I have basically curriculum type stuff, homeschool supplies we use often, and reference materials (dictionaries, Audobon books, etc.)  On the top I have magazine holders with last year's lapbooks.  The second shelf holds this year's lapbooks.  The bottom shelf has magazines and expandable folders that I keep each child's loose work in (co-op activities, writing, book reports, etc.)  The right book shelf holds non-fiction books on the first 2 shelves, FIAR books, picture books, easy readers, Holiday books, and art/music books.

Here is a close up of the top shelves.

And a close up of the bottom.

The canvas tote has our glue, markers, crayons, extra pencils, etc that we use often for lapbooking.

This picture is the other side of our schoolroom.  The bookshelf holds our chapter books, and other misc. books (some that aren't school related). The filing cabinet on the right has my laminator, folders, colored paper, cardstock, other paper (graphing, drawing, tracing, etc.), and the bottom drawer has our other crafting supplies that we don't use often.

Here is a close up of our paper/folder drawer.

And our bottom craft drawer.

In the middle of both sides is a large window with a baseboard heater underneath, so I can't put shelves.  We keep our school desks here.  Inside the desks, the boys keep their everyday workbooks and lapbook mini books until we are ready to glue them in the folders.

My dining room table sits in the middle of the room, so if we need it for crafting, or for me to do planning while the boys are working, it's available.  The boys used it for clay today.  Behind the dining room table, we have a music corner.

We are a musical family.  I play piano, cello and some viola.  Ryan plays the cello and some guitar.  Alex took some guitar lessons and has taught himself some beyond.  Nicolas would like to learn the drums and keeps some beat, but I would like for him to have lessons to help him along.  My wonderful husband bought me the keyboard a couple years ago so I could do more than just notes.  I can add rhythm or change the sound to play more contemperary songs and choruses.  I plan to add piano into the boys schooling next school year.