Our Updated Classroom

We did a much needed remodel in our classroom at the end of August. I'm real pleased with the final results. 

The old carpet needed to go. We finally have no more carpet in our house. I like laminate wood floor as it's durable and easy to clean. I don't have to worry about it getting scratched up easily. 

 In reality I now have a 6th and 9th grader and my kids needed some space during school. Both of my kiddos are working more independently-especially my 6th grade son. 

The desk in the middle of the room is actually a craft desk. I liked it because of all the shelves and storage areas on all sides of the desk. This is my daughter's desk. She needs a bit more help with school and so I sit on the opposite side. I found that she needed a bit more room to lay out her books and schedule so we keep a TV tray in the room that she puts up during school. 

I can turn around and help out Little Man easily from my location. When we do our subjects or read out louds together I'm right in the center of them. The layout works nicely.

 Little Man has the corner desk and he loves having a desk all to his self. He can organize it to his liking. Eventually I plan on saving up to get him a desktop of his own. 

Of course we can't forget about Mercy so we make sure she has a box or two to sleep in and to gaze out the window.

 He keeps his school books up above his desk. This year he is learning chemistry and wanted the periodical table on his white board.

 My desk is just opposite of Little Man's desk. The shelf above has all my storage of curriculum. I love my desk as it has its own build in book shelf. I keep all the current year curriculum on it. The desk also has our main computer for our homeschool.

Next to my desk I have a shelf that holds all our reference books.

 On the other side of the room is all our chapter books and a few odds and ends. I still have my plastic storage drawers that hold school supplies. 

I love my white rotating caddie that I found at Michael's. It holds a lot of pens, pencils, and misc.

I have some paper goods that we use a lot on the end of the desk.

 Bug keeps her workbooks and supplies on these two shelves.

 I have a drawer to keep supplies. I also have a bin of super balls when the cats get distracting and want our full attention. I can throw a ball and they forget about us for awhile.

Hopefully this is the last time I rearrange a school room. The only thing that we may have to do is to get a thicker curtain. Our current one lets in a lot of light which is nice but, it puts a glare on the computer screen.We need to put a light in the ceiling in the center of the room. It only has a light at the edge of the classroom over the computer desk.

Have a blessed day!