Creative Adventures At Home: School Room Organization

It took me a long time, but I finally got the school room looking the way it should. We moved in six months ago and the school room/family room/dining room was the last one to be finished. Being on the spectrum, C needs a lot of routine, schedule and organization. It was tough homeschooling him with all of stuff being in such disarray.
Welcome to our homeschool world!





This is the bookcase where I keep the curriculum, books that I reference, teaching games, flash cards, software and sentence cards. I keep magazine files at the bottom for each subject to hold smaller items such as items that I want to copy or magazines, thin books, etc... In this bookcase I store the non-fiction books, readers and fiction books. We keep our world map here on the wall for marking as we travel along with Galloping the Globe and next to the bookcase I have hanging file folders to hold my weekly files 1-36 (more on that later). The credenza is next to our little bookcase and I store a lot in here. Science kits, craft supplies, extra school supplies, paper, folders, etc. On top I keep books for our geography study and the globe. I have baskets of books based on our units of study for easy access. Here is my action area and where most of our schooling takes place. Directly across from the desk is a large dining room table where we do our school work. I found the most adorable calendar and trim set from Trend at the local teacher's store. Personally, I don't laminate, but I just have one student and we get tired of the theme after one year. We got our sentence chart from Target for $1. I bought a few of them and use them in quite a few places throughout the house. Over the printer, I have a clipboard hanging where I keep library lists so that I know which books are due when. It has really helped keep down our overdue fines! ;) On top of my desk, I keep a hanging file box where I keep all of my teacher's manual in use. This way, all I have to do is pull out each one as we need it and then I just slip it back in the box after I am done. No more searching for manuals before a lesson! Next to the desk are C's workboxes. We really enjoy using these and I have written previously about how I have set them up. I base my set-up on Sue Patrick's book, Sue Patrick's Workbox User's Manual. Above the workboxes is a 3-drawer box where I keep our school supplies. I will write more about my system and what I put in his drawers as soon as I can. I so enjoy organization! As you can see by this wall, I have more charts :) One is to show our daily schedule. I bought two more sentence charts at Target for $1 each and glued them together. The Dollar Tree had the time schedule cards for $1 and I had them laminated so that I could change times if I needed to. The hanging file organizer works great for holding all of our file folder games. I put the games into C's workbox on certain days. My toughest challenge was to find a place to put the chalkboard. We are really short on wall space. So I got creative and put it on top of the dinosaur of a television that sits in the family room. It works. I just move it over to the dining room table when we need it. Behind the chalkboard, I store our morning basket which holds our books and memory work that we use at our morning meeting. I found the cutest little basket at Target in the $1 bin. I feel like we finally have some peace and that we are "home". C is much more happy with school now that there is routine and organization. Things flow so much better. Now if I could just get those lesson plans done...

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