Learning Spaces - Not Back To School Blog Hop 2016

Here we are with the third installment of this years All Australian Not Back To School Blog Hop. Have you been keeping up with everyone's posts?

In case you missed any you can see week 1 (homeschool resources) here and week 2 (Why I'm grateful for homeschooling)

This week it is time to share our learning spaces. I think it is fair to say that the vast majority of homeschoolers don't use one single classroom space. They utilise everything around them but for the ease of this post I'm sharing our main home office and library room.

If you've followed my blog for any length of time you will have seen most of this before. The room most likely contains more books than it did a year or so ago as our library continues to grow.

We've also added this additional work space. My youngest turns 8 this year and no longer enjoys sitting at a little desk, so we now have a third work space option here in this room.

I love that this centre piece is big enough for all three of the kids to sit around if wanted. Whilst it is still a work in progress the book shelves in this area hold mostly Australian materials.

On the shelves underneath are a few of our hands on manipulatives and resources. The vast majority of these are stored in a cupboard in another room though.

This is the main larger corner bookshelf unit where all of our curriculum books are housed. They are either grouped by subject or theme. It's kind of messy right now and could do with a good clean out but, this is real life and mostly that's what the shelves tend to look like.

One day I will be brave enough to actually do a little video walk through of the shelf unit so you can see more closely what's on there.

This is taken from the other end of the room looking back at the shelves and the third work space. It's a great space and we are very lucky to have this

Looking For More School Room Ideas?

Simply click the links below to check out how others use their spaces to homeschool.

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Happy Homeschooling,
Kylie

School Room Display Boards

After seeing these on a few blogs lately I finally decided to go grab some simple cork boards to display the children's work.

Nothing fancy, but they have made a nice addition to the room, I often find one of them standing in front of their work and admiring it.

The display boards make it easy to show dad the things they have been getting up to during the day also.

There is no real routine to these, when the boards are full they get emptied and all papers get filed away.

Each child has their own board. That was one of the reasons why I held off for so long on putting them up. Wall space is scarce in this room and I wanted to be certain that we were using the walls to their maximum potential.

For now we enjoy having these and since I hung them with 3M tape they can easily be removed if we ever need that wall space again.

It Is Absolutely Beginning To Look Like.....

........with new shiny furniture to help stay organised and foster independence.

It Really Is Beginning To Look Like.....

New books, to nourish and excite the mind,

To find out about the world around us,

To learn new skills and to improve on others....

It's Beginning To Look Like.....

The look, smell and feel of brand new, neatly organised stationery.

Crisp clean , freshly sharpened pencils.....

Room Update

There's a room update here if you've been following along.

Getting A New School Room.

Finally our much talked about new school room is happening.


I'm posting about it over at our family blog if you'd like to follow the progress.

New Writing and Drawing Desk

We were around the corner earlier dropping off some unwanted items at our local Vinnies this morning and saw this cute little desk sitting out the front for the grand sum of $5, yep that's right $5. I've often looked at these but never thought they were worth the money, but this one is in near perfect condition, it was a nice little find.