Our updated school room

So in my quest to make the school room function better for us, I come up with ideas and decided to change some things around. I had all week last week to change the room and clean up the room. I have also been going back to Brenda at The Family Revised to check on the newest keepin it real post. I love seeing how others have organized things. 

I was so tired of my back hurting from leaning over to get to the computer, which sat on a small Strawberry Shortcake table. You can see the small table and pictures of the room before here. I complained to my husband about my back. He told me he did not like having the Mac on that little table either. You see he uses the Mac for his ipod and downloads music. Well my wonderful husband put a table that we have had in the closet in the room for me. I also moved the white bookcase into another room. I was able to put the most used items in the big storage unit we have. 

This is my desk.

Now my printer and everything I need is on the desk. I have moved all of J's books to the desk with me. Its so nice to have a desk for me. I moved the girls desk farther over and put up some charts where the bookcase was. I even have room to put more if I want. I am so excited. The long desk is now J's work space.

K has the little Strawberry Shortcake table and chairs. She loves having her little area all to herself. As you can see in the picture her bears have done school with her this week.

I even took down the pictures and bought a metal sheet for her magnet play things. She loves the letters. The farm animal thing we have had since she was a baby. I moved somethings and

changed the direction of the tent. Now they have more room in their kitchen area.

We are all ready to go for a great first week of school!

Our School Room

This is our school room! It is upstairs which makes it nice to be away from food (for me that is). This is the view as you walk straight into the room. We bought the shelf system about a year and a half ago and it has been the best thing ever. Then we ordered the train/game table for the girls last christmas. Our 4yr old loves Thomas the Train, so the table gets used everyday. It has 2 bottom rolling storage carts. They house the train set, littlest pet shops, my little ponies, and our paints and brushes and smocks. 

Here is a closer look at the train table. After a week of playing on the table we soon discovered that we needed a mat to go on top of the table. We found a nice girly mat. It has been a saver for the top of the table.

Each basket on top of the bookshelf houses different stuff. One has markers, crayons, coloring books, glue, and pencils. Another 

has playdough. The two in the center are still somewhat empty. The last two has math stuff and misc. goodies. The shelf itself hold all our books. In each section I have tried to keep similar book together. One has all science books another states and presidents, you get the idea. Well this just does not happen with K moving books constantly. But the bottom is her area. She is always

 looking at her books and playing with the wood clock and wood puzzles. The bottom right drawer is all her school stuff, which she always has spread out to see and pick which one to do. The white roller cart holds all our music cds and SOTW cds, plus toys. On top of it is the cd player.

This is the girls kitchen area. K really loves this area. She plays here a lot while we do school. She got the tinkerbell tent from for her birthday and we put a little table in there and her tea set. Yes, we do get in there with her. We love pretend tea parties, even my husband. He loves his girls and will even play tea party!

 

This is our school desk and our computer area. We have another bookshelf in the corner. It holds all of my homeschool books and whatnot here. I have to tell you about the desk and blue chairs. We got them at the GSA (Government Surplus). I got the table for $5 and the 2 blue chairs for $2 each. I love cheap stuff and search it out. 

This is the other side of the room. We have maps and our cork board here. The baskets hold old magazines to cut up and scissors. We actually have a plastic play slide that is usually here, I just moved it to get a clear picture.