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When I initially shared that we were finishing off an area for our homeschool classroom a year and a half ago, I posted a short video clip of the ‘in progress’ work. Since then I’ve shared pictures of the room, but many of you have asked for a video tour. Sometimes pictures are helpful, but a video can really help give you a little more perspective.
Each video will have short blurbs telling more about the pieces and there will be links at the end of this post as well. Feel free to ask any questions in the comments!
Would you like a tour? This is the closest that I can give you to a personal visit right now, so grab a cup of coffee, pull up a chair, and spend some time with me. We love our schoolroom and are glad that you are here for a visit.
Come on in!
Homeschool Room Tour {Part 1}
Homeschool Room Tour {Part 2}
Things You See in the Video {in order seen}:
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Backyard Bird cards on jump ring {hanging by window}
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Schleich animal figures on windowsill
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Ikea frames for artwork
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School library cart from Guidcraft
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Pocket chart on end of library cart {similar too}
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Little Passports map & suitcase
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Kids’ Desks and Chairs: Vika Amon birch tops, Curry legs, and red Snille chairs
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Pencil rack is Bygel rail with blue Bygel containers
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Between kid’s desks: Ikea Trofast frame with bins
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Finished work is in red book bins from Really Good Stuff
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Reading Bag {a 31 Tote with All About Reading program books}
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Timeline poster from Geography Matters. Timeline figures from Bright Ideas Press.
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World and US Maps {peel and stick from Costco}
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Dry erase board for All About Spelling
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Easel from Ikea
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Bookcase setup includes 2 Expedit tall shelves, 2 Expedit bookshelves, and a Stuva storage bench with red chair cushions
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Tabletop paper holder from Ikea
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Cloth bins are Ikea Kusiner green/blue
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Our history curriculum: Mystery of History
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Lego Education Simple Machines and WeDo curriculum
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‘Extra’ jars for kids {idea from Walking by the Way}
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Our science curriculum: Nancy Larson Science 1 and 3
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Geography puzzles from GeoPuzzles {fabulous!!!}
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Ikea Norden table {in center of the room}
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Lazy Susan art supply organizer
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Writing bag {a 31 bag with our Write Shop goodies}
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Homeschool Planner: Weekly Homeschool Planner
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Daily teaching bag: a 31 bag with our daily needs
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My desk is the Expedit bookcase, the Expedit desk and Snille swivel chair. The file boxes are Lingo boxes along with green Kassat boxes {to hide stuff}. Spice containers from Ikea store
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Compassion Binder {coming soon!} – but sponsor a child today!
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My FAVORITE laminator {because every mom should have one!!}
Note: Ikea keeps changing location on their links, but names are provided for the various items we are using.
Other Helpful Posts
- Our Curriculum Choices – a look at what we’re using with our kids for curriculum
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Organizing School Paperwork – a peek at how we organize our schoolwork for the entire year
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Weekly Workbox Grid – our organization system for doing schoolwork each week
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Daily Calendar Notebooks – daily math help for elementary students
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Calendar and Morning Board – a look at how we incorporate a little extra learning each morning before school
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My Homeschool Binder – peek inside my planning binder
Phew!! If you stuck around for it all – let me know if you have any questions!! Leave a comment and I’d be happy to answer you!
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Your school room is so warm and inviting! Thanks so much for the tour… and boy, so I wish I had a Ikea closer than 3 hours away… haha
Ours is about 2 hours away – and it’s probably a GOOD thing!!! :)
Oh Wow that is a beautiful school room :-)
Great Ikea commercial. Thank you for the tour as we are creating a one room school house in our prior Jacuzzi house/rec room.
I only WISH Ikea sponsored me. ha. :) I’d love to see your room when you are done!!
Thanks for the videos–they were great and gave me lots of wonderful ideas! Do you happen to have a link somewhere on your website for the preposition sheet printable you use for Easy Grammar? Thanks!
I need to check with Easy Grammar to make sure it’s ok to share them. I only put them together for the 3rd, 5th and 6th grades so far. What grades are you looking for?
If you aren’t able to share them, no worries, but if you are, I’d
like 3rd and 6th grade. Thanks so much!
Wow – I love your room it is beautiful. I am worn out just by hearing you talk about all the different curriculum that you keep up with for your kids . . . and your awesome blog too.
Keep in mind that not everything is every day {grins}. Some things are once a week or every other week. :)
Beautiful room! I can see why school would be so enjoyable in such a space. Thank you so much for the many ideas you’ve given me!
Thank you so much for the tour!
The IKEA table you have in the middle – exactly what I was looking for our small school room/kitchen/dining room!
Jolanthe, thank you so much for sharing! Your classroom is amazing! On the 31 bags, do you know which tote you used? I love the idea of them, have a friend from high school that sells and they would work great in our classroom, under the bottom shelf to store extra curriculum.
It’s the Organizing Utility Tote and I ordered a set of 6 Large Open Top File Boxes from Amazon as inserts to make them more ‘steady’. You can buy individual ones on Amazon as well, but by the time I would buy 3 or 4…it was cheaper to split it with a friend. :) I have 3 bags and have one of those inserts in each bag. The Container Store also carries the inserts, so if you have one of those near you, check it out there.
Thank you so much!!! So excited, I ordered three :)
I agree w/Rebecca about having an IKEA nearby. I used to live in an area where there were four IKEAs less than one hour away from me. Now, the nearest one is in another state and many hours away.
Thank you for sharing your space w/us. It was a pleasure and has motivated me to see what magic I can create in our very much smaller space.
Wow! I’m so jealous! :) Our schoolroom is the room above the garage, and like yours, it has those slanted ceilings. I love how neat and organized yours is though…mine is, well, not as neat and organized! :)
Here is a link to ours…it looks a little different now as I tend to change things often. http://heathfamily7.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/our-schoolroom-2012-2013/
Thanks for sharing the videos!
My 5 year old crawled into my bed this morning, where I was just getting started on viewing your first video. He sat there, totally captivated, and after a bit he said, “Is that somebody’s homeschool room?!” He was completely in awe of your room. (Me, too, to be honest!)
We also use our bonus room, but our walls are much lower. If you push a desk/table against the wall, the slope begins at the tabletop. It doesn’t leave any room for hanging things over the desk. One of these days, we’ll need to make the 2 hour drive to Ikea and purchase some desks/shelving. Thanks for the inspiration! :)
Beautiful room! A few days ago, I wondered if you had a planning/teaching spot where you could keep curriculum. I knew you had the classroom, and I was wondering if you were able to just steal away for planning sessions, etc. Do you find it hard to stay in the classroom when you also have to prepare dinner, blog, etc? These people keep expecting to eat at the table where we do most of our stuff! :)
The classroom is definitely the quietest place in the house which is nice when I do want to ‘steal away’ for some time. Unfortunately, that means that I also can’t hear anything that’s going on in the house, so I try to limit those times to when my hubby is home and can keep an eye out, or when the kids are occupied and happy. :) We can keep the door open to the girls’ room, so I can hear things then, so I do have some time in the afternoons to plan or work if I would like. Otherwise, I just work downstairs in the main part of the house. One of the hard things is when I leave the school room, I tend to forget things that I’ve left up there to work on.
This was very helpful. Next fall I will begin homeschooling our 5 year old. While I don’t think we need a dedicated space like this yet, we do have the space in our home and by the time all our kids are school age we will. It was helpful to see the different curricula too. Thank you!
Thank you for the wonderful tour. Its always so helpful to see how other families do school :)
I was wondering if you new the name and brand of the paint color on your walls. I love it.
The color is Benjamin Moore Stem Green :)
Loved the tour! Looking forward to hearing more about the Compassion binder.
I think you are my homeschool hero now… Amazing set-up. Now we need a video of your classroom in action! I would love to see a snippet of your homeschool day. :)
I don’t think that you’d be able to hear a thing with the four loud kids.
Where did you get the colored work folders for each of the children?
There is an Amazon widget on the page I am linking to below that has some similar folders. Originally I found them at Walmart, but haven’t seen them in a bit.
http://homeschoolcreations.com/Workboxes.html
Hope that helps! :)
I loved getting a lot of great ideas from that tour, thanks for sharing! About the Norden table in the centre of the room… You can get castor wheels for it from ikea, pop em on, and u can wheel the table around when needed! ( I love ikea, keeps my homeschool running smoothly.
Great idea, Sara! —
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Thank you for sharing the video! You have a wonderful school room! I was wondering where do you keep your computer? I’m finding that when one of my kids is doing computer work the others get very distracted. Maybe I should get some headphones…
Definitely use headphones! :) we have a bag next to one of our kids desks that we can store the laptop in, but it usually travels around the house with us.
Do you happen to know the size of the room? We are fixing to build a home and I love this size!! Thanks,