As Jonas has been raving, our new school space is finally done. And it is SUPER AWESOME! And woohoo! And TOTALLY WICKED! Come take a look around.
(I thought the captions I wrote on the photos would suffice, but they look at little small on my browser. Oops. I think if you click each pic, it will enlarge – if you’re curious.)
“The view from our front door. Welcome to the madhouse…err, I mean, SCHOOLhouse. Yeah.”
This is the second shelf on the left-most bookcase. I cleared it of the nonfiction books it used to hold to make space for my Teacher’s Editions and the books we’ll be using for Tapestry of Grace. The TOG materials are in binders (I have spines to label them, I just haven’t gotten around to it for Units2-4). Behind each unit binder, I’ve put the books and resources we’ll use during that unit. There are some great tips on the TOG forums about using a system of label dots on the spines of the books for help with sorting them, but I think I’ll wait to see if we stick with TOG for more than one year cycle before I go that route.
This picture is from the doorway into our kitchen.
Sorry this one is dark; the hazards of shooting toward a window in the daytime. We get great morning sun from the front window, and lots of afternoon sun through this large window. The chandelier in here is nice, but it gives a yellow glow. Most of you know I’m kinda light-sensitive, especially in the winter months, so we’ll see how that works for me. I may have to take down this jerryrigged sheer November through February, haha!
My kinesthetic learner can’t sit in a chair for long. This is our old coffee table, and the only one in the house I allow her to sit on.
For particulars about the workbooks we’re using, see this post.
I used TWPD planner last year as well (probably not to its full potential). In preparation for this year, I’ve done a lot of blog-hopping to get tips and ideas. If it works out as well as I hope, I’ll post more.
Oh, and one last thing we see a lot of in the schoolroom:
