tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22532896571012730882024-03-05T03:32:37.508-08:00Once Upon A HomeschoolerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02064825648304289736noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2253289657101273088.post-67447182799102436672013-07-12T12:42:00.001-07:002013-08-12T05:18:56.177-07:00Our School Room The wait is over.... After weeks of procrastinating I'm ready to share our 2013-2014 school room with all of you! I'm linking up to the<a href="http://www.ihomeschoolnetwork.com/school-room-week-2013/" target="_blank"> "Not" Back-to-School Blog hop</a> at iHomeschoolNetwork! I can't wait to check out everyone's school rooms (EEK!)<br />
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We started our school room re-do back in January of 2012. It has been a long process to get things to where it is, but so worth it. Most of the work was simple like painting, but it took a lot of time to find the right furniture for our space and budget! When we started homeschooling a few years ago we were working at our dining room table. After a few months of that I decided that just wasn't working so we started dragging all of our books, craft supplies, and games up into our "bonus room".<br />
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This was just the beginning.... A few months later we started to prep the room for paint!</div>
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Little Man helping Daddy sand out some rough spots</div>
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Ahhh! All primed and no where to put that mass of "stuff" hehe</div>
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Fast forward 18 months (bahahaha)</div>
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View from back of room looking towards doorway</div>
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Computer area (This is to the left of the doorway when you are first walking in)</div>
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We store all of our extra paper (computer and construction) and old crayons inside the white cabinet. </div>
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This area is to the right when you come in the door. I put plastic crates on their sides and stacked them for extra shelving. We store all of our curriculum and extra workbooks here. Usually both of our white boards are hanging on the wall, but two days ago the one decided to fall :( The top board is where I write down important things we are working on, so I guess I should be thankful it was the bottom board that fell. </div>
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On the top row of crates inside of the pencil boxes I store all extra glue sticks, markers, color pencils, pencils, scissors, erasers and tape. Pencil boxes are super cheap to begin with, but I snagged all of these after the back to school sales and paid $0.25/box. I got our crates on sale as well for $2.50. I was worried that our crates wouldn't hold up being used as shelving, but so far it is working great and you can't beat the price! I love that our binders with printables are able to fit here as well. On our white cubbies I had to lay them on their sides.</div>
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We found these little desks, the large table, and four metal chairs at a used furniture store here. We got an amazzzzing deal. If I remember correctly we paid $115 for everything. The table started out with the same type of top and wood as the desk in front of the little white door.... We are slowly working on refinishing everything to look like this:<br />
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Too stinking cute, right? It is so much work though. </div>
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All the kiddos helping Daddy sand down one of our desks </div>
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For now hubby put the other desks back together until we have the time and patience to tackle the other two. The little metal chairs at the computer and art desk will all have white or black seats (one day) as well. Originally I wanted all three of the desks together, but we recently bought new furniture and our sectional was moved into our school room. Since Little Man needs extra help, I put his desk close to where I sit.... Also he can't bug the "bigs" when they are doing their work :D Win, win! <br />
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Speaking of the sectional ... This is our new seating area. Seriously the sectional is so beat up, but we have so much more room to cozy up together now. Although this is our school room, we also hang out in here all the time. Before we had a tiny sofa (that black one in the first picture) and only two of us could sit on it. This is so much better even if it takes up a huge chunk of our room.</div>
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Above the sectional we have an art line. This is probably one of my favorite items in our school room. I love seeing all of the artwork my kiddos make, but hate having it scattered everywhere (yes, I know.. Bad Mama!).... They are allowed to keep their art projects up as long as they want, but only if there is room on the line. Afterwards everything gets recycled.<br />
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On our tv stand we store not only the kids dvds (some on the shelf and the rest in the middle box on the bottom shelf), but extra games, puzzles, and board books. It really is a catch all area, but I'm thankful for the extra storage. <br />
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Our amazing school library area! </div>
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I am absolutely in love with our cubbies. For months I begged the hubby to go to Ikea, but it is quite a drive from us. One day when we were in Lowes we noticed that these cubbies were on sale, plus we get 10% military discount! I can't remember what we paid exactly, but it was almost 50% off each unit. I ordered the fabric bins off of amazon (6/$30.. I think!). The black "mini crates" were another after "back to school sale" steal. I keep extra chapter books and leveled readers in them. I seriously don't know where we would keep all of our books if I didn't have these.<br />
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Here is another view of our cubbies. As you can see in the middle row we store games, puzzles, and activity boards and some of our bigger books. Inside of fabric bins we keep everything from craft supplies to music instruments and flash cards They are really a HOT MESS! I need to tackle them this week and sort out any of the junk. It is easy to forget whats in them when you don't have to see the mess though.<br />
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This is Little Man's calendar area. It is a work in progress. One of these days I want to make it super cute, but it just hasn't happened. I'm sure you noticed in the other photos that it is not centered above our cubbies. Originally the cubbies were on the other wall where the sectional is and I had a rocking chair and the white paper cabinet by our calender area... The sectional had to be on the other wall, so we have a "make it work" type of situation because I refuse to move the board and make more holes in our walls :D <br />
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So there you have it! Our school room. It is not perfect and we have some more work to do, but I am so thankful for this space. It has made our school days so much easier not having to move everything multiple times a day to eat. It has made this Mama happy not to have to dig out legos or other small toys from inside of toy boxes since they all have a place in our school area. And MOST OF ALL I love having everything in one area!!!<br />
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It's that time of year again. I have spent the last couple of weeks with
my nose in catalogs, online curriculum sites (Rainbow Resources,
Christian Book, etc.) and scouring fellow homeschool blogs comparing
SOOOOOO many different curriculums! The hubs even sucked it up and
visited some local used book stores so we could look at things in
person. I have to say going to our local store was the most useful
thing. I thought I had my mind set on certain books, but after looking
at them I realized that they wouldn't work for our family--at least not
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*<b>Buddy (B)</b> will be turning 10 years old in August and is going into the 5th Grade</div>
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*<b>Jewla (J)</b> will be turning 8 in a few weeks and is going into the 3rd Grade</div>
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*<b>Little Man (LM)</b> just turned 6. Little Man was diagnosed with
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<b>B</b>-First Language Lessons (FLL) Level 4<br />
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<b>LM</b>-FLL Level 1</div>
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Buddy and Jewla used First Language Lessons this past school year. I
personally love that we move through it quickly and I know that the
kiddos are retaining the information. At times both of them get a little
pouty about repeating the definitions so many times, but I think
without the repetition they wouldn't remember half of what they do. This
will be out first year using it with Little Man. I'm not sure how it
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<b>READING</b></div>
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<b>B&J</b>-Learning Language Arts Through Literature (LLATL)--Orange</div>
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This will be our first time using LLATL. I have heard so many amazing
things about it and I can't wait to use it with my two "bigs". I chose
the "Orange" books since it is the in-between level and I wanted to do
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<b>LM</b>-Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons</div>
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Little Man over the last few months has finally shown that he is ready
and wanting to read. Up until now we have just done sight words and easy
readers. I found this book at a used book store in the children's
section. It costs $5 for a BOX (Yes, you read that right!) a book. When
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<b>B&J</b>- Morning Journals. I don't feel the need to have a set
curriculum for handwriting as this time. Jewla's is finally printing her
letters correctly (All facing the right directions), so I will probably
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<b><br />LM</b>-Handwriting Without Tears (Kindergarten)</div>
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This will be our first year using Handwriting Without Tears at home.
Little Man uses it occasionally during his occupational therapy
appointments and it seems to be great for him. I did not buy the whole
kit. I ordered the teacher's manual, the workbook, and the wood letters.
We have so many other supplies already at our house that I thought it
was a waste of money to order special ones to go with this curriculum. <br />
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<b>B</b>- http://www.k12reader.com/fifth-grade-spelling-words/</div>
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I stumbled across this site while looking for some free reading
comprehension worksheets. Buddy is an excellent speller and we always
use free lists. Unfortunately the site we used the last two years now
has a membership fee, so when I seen the FREE lists here I put the
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<b>J</b>-All About Spelling Level 1</div>
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Miss Jewla has used free lists up until now as well. I decided to
purchase All About Spelling because things just don't seem to be
clicking for her. I also think Little Man is going to need something
more hands on when he gets to spelling work, so when that time comes I
can reuse this with him!<br />
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<b>VOCABULARY</b><br />
<b>B</b>-Wordly Wise 3000 3rd Edition Grade 5<br />
<b>J</b>-Wordly Wise 3000 3rd Edition Grade 3<br />
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<b>Math:</b><br />
<b>B</b>-Singapore Math (U.S. Primary) Finish 3B(Summer), then 4A/4B & Daily timed test<br />
<b>J</b>-Singapore Math Finish 2A(summer), then 2B/3A & Daily timed test<br />
<b>LM</b>-Singapore Math 1A<br />
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We started using Singapore Math this year. I started both Buddy and
Jewla back a few levels to make sure they truly grasped everything
before moving ahead. I think it was the right decision, especially for
Jewla. She was not confident in her math skills at all, but she seems a
lot more comfortable now. BONUS.... This program is so affordable! Since
I am using it for all of the kiddos I only have to replace the
workbooks each year (So about $22/kid for a year)<br />
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<b>Science:</b><br />
<b>B</b>-Real Science-4-Kids: Elementary Chemistry, Elementary Physics<br />
<b>J</b>-Real Science-4-Kids: Elementary Chemistry, Elementary Biology<br />
<b>LM</b>-Real Science-4-Kids: Elementary Chemistry (no workbook)<br />
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<b>History:</b><br />
<b>All </b>-Beautiful Feet Early American History (Intermediate)<br />
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EEEEEK! I am soooo excited about this one! When we first started looking
into homeschooling I stumbled across Beautiful Feet books, but the
price tag held me back. The hubby and I didn't want to spend that much
money on certain subjects until I got into the swing of things and the
kiddos were a bit older. I was prepared to pay full price for this, but
after TONS of Ebay stalking I snagged the whole set for $100! <br />
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<b>Foreign Language-</b><br />
<b>All</b>-Rosetta Stone German<br />
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Another amazing deal!!! We actually started this program this year
through the military library, but due to budget cuts they stopped
offering it. My kiddos were so upset when they couldn't continue. After a
lot of discussing we decided we would just buy it. Rosetta Stone has a
summer special running for $329. I was about to order it, but decided to
check out my favorite coupon site first (retailmenot) and found this
amazing deal:</div>
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5-level rosetta stone course (mandarin, spanish, french, italian,
german, english and russian) is only $199 for all five levels. thats
$300 off! limited-time offer, and expiration date is not specified.<br /> Coupon Code:<br /> <br /> rslms617a</span></span></h5>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Our total came to $191.08! WOOOOT!</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
year we have definitely invested more money into our curriculum than
before, but I think every penny was well spent! I absolutely cannot wait
until the rest of our books come in. We actually started school back up
on July 1st. We are doing modified school for now. We spent the last
5.5 weeks of our school year in Michigan visiting family. Although we
still "did" school while there, we didn't get nearly as much done as we
normally would. So we are taking a few hours each morning and finishing
up some of our books. I have to say that I am enjoying our summer school
so far. I think this might be a new trend for us... Year round school
here we come! </span></span></span></div>
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