The Not Back To School Blog Hop: School Room

We had a quite large school room last year, but we moved from Alaska to Savannah this summer. That means a new (smaller) house on post. And a smaller school room. It’s always interesting trying to fit your things into a new home. I think that I have things the way I want them. I’m not going to spend too much time on it, because we’re moving again in less than a year. Thank you Army.

We have a lot of bookshelves (and these are only the ones in the schoolroom.  I have 3 in my room, and another 3 in the kids rooms – we’re addicted!)

The books are normally in order by subject and the history is put into chronological order.  I haven’t done that yet.  I was happy just to get them out of the boxes and onto the shelves.  It’s messy and it’s bugging me, but it will have to wait until later…

My husband built this piece of furniture to house our manipulatives and other various school supplies.

One of my favorite purchases is our art carts, which hold everything from paper, glue, craft supplies, crayons, markers, etc.
It’s nice, because the entire drawer comes out and can be place on the table.

Of course, the downside to that is that my 2 year old can also pull the drawers out….

I don’t like the thought of the kids doing art projects on my dining room table. We had a second one in our last home, but we got rid of it before we moved. I bought a folding table from Sam’s Club to serve as our school table this year.  I am hoping that it will be big enough.

I bought myself a chair to sit on. The thought of being in a folding chair for hours each day did not appeal to me. This one is not very comfortable either, but it will do for this year. I liked it, because it’s wide enough for me to fit a kid next to me and help them out – or a monkey.

I have the all-important map on the wall, 2 dry-erase boards, and a bulletin board.

I bought a box for each of the children to put their workbooks and such in. That way, they can carry their stuff wherever they need to.

I think that’s it!  We didn’t have room in this new space for the monstrous desk I used to sit at – or the desktop computer.  I usually use the laptop now though, and the older two kids have their own laptops to do their work on, so it works out fine.

Oh, wait – one more thing! What schoolroom is complete without a talking Einstein bobblehead (or is it baublehead)?? We picked him up at the Smithsonian this past May.  Ellie just had to have it.