Hi everyone! This week is School Room Week with the IHN Not-Back-ToSchool Blog Hop!
We’ve stuck with a similar room setup this year, with a few fun additions! The above picture is an overview of our room, and now we’ll get into the nitty gritty of our setup!
Along the big wall in our room is an Expedit 17”x15”x72” shelving unit and an Expedit 31”x15”x58” shelving Unit. I keep specific phonics and math manipulatives on the top two shelves. These are things we use often and I didn’t want them to get lost in the rest of our things. The shelving unit on the right houses all of my teacher’s manuals. They’re separated by student, so top left is Strawberry Shortcake, right is Turbo, next row is Tinkerbell and Teeny Tot. The bottom shelves are teacher’s manuals for subjects we do as a group.
Next to the above shelves is our new reading bench. This was a new addition this year that we love! I purchased an Ikea Besta shelving unit with adjustable shelves plus Besta round legs. ($50) We made the cute pad specifically for the bench. Stop back by tomorrow and I’ll share a tutorial on this super easy and cute bench cushion tomorrow!
The next shelving unit is the Expedit 25 cubbie shelving unit. The top row are all of my LOTW binders and our school work binders. I keep all of their finished worksheets in their annual binders, then at the end of the year, they go down to the basement for storage.
The next row of blue bins are books, lapbooks, then some other miscellaneous games and activities. Mostly for the Teeny Tot. The Blue Organizer Bins are from Lakeshore Learning.
The next row are one of my favorites. They are Small (10×11) Clear Document Cases from The Container Store. They house all of our manipulatives, math links, alphabet tiles, color cubes, lacing buttons, wooden shape blocks, etc, etc.
The bottom two shelves are miscellaneous games, etc. Then the bottom is full of DRÖNA Boxes ($4.99) that house puzzles, wooden blocks, coloring books, etc. If you’re curious, each cube is 15” deep x 13” high and 13” wide, so there is a LOT of space in these!
Here is the whole wall for you to see, or as much as I could fit into one photograph!
Here is the wall to the right of the shelves. It has our Alphabet Palm Tree, calendar time bulletin board, and All About Spelling board. Along with a few ducks my husband hunted.
Another new addition is the Micke Desk in white ($69.00). I needed something for the kids to do typing and piano on, plus a workspace for me as well. This one was a great addition because it’s not super deep, but its long.
On the desk is a Bosch pencil sharpener, one of my favorite things! It sharpens like nothing else and at record speeds!
We also have the Mala Tabletop Paper Holder ($6.99) which is awesome! Drawing Paper Roll refills are are $4.99.
We kept our Ikea Desk setup. It survived the whole last year and still looks great! Whatever it’s made of is really easy to clean and has held up well. There are some dents on the sides of our swivel chairs just from banging into the table tops, but otherwise it’s held up really well and I’m very pleased with it! I will have a detailed post on how this is put together tomorrow!
Here is a close up of my Vika Alex Drawer Units $79.00. There are only 5 drawers in these, so right now we’re putting two subjects in a couple of the bottom drawers.
Each of my kiddos has an Expanding Acrylic Drawer Organizer in them with all of the supplies they’ll need. This keeps them from getting up a thousand times during class to get something!
In the center of our desk is this super cool Making Memories Caddy was one of my old scrapbooking items. I dumped out the supplies and filled it with markers. Yep, you know you’re a homeschooler when you start sacrificing your scrapbooking supplies in the name of school.
Where’d I Get that?
- Making Memories Caddy (I purchased mine at Michael’s Hobby Store)
- Alphabet Palm Tree on wall
- 10 Drawer Workbox Carts (I purchased mine at JoAnn’s Fabric Store)
- Giant Whiteboard (Check www.craigslist.com I found mine for $5!)
- Blue Organizer Bins on Expedit Shelving
- Seasons Calendar Poster (This is held onto a cork board with small thumb tacks. Click here to see a closeup of our Calendar Activities)
love it!! it’s all so neat and tidy!! i love ikea and all their organizational things. looks like you’re making great use of it all 🙂
What a great organized room. I was curious, what are the dimensions of your school room?
My room is approximately 15×12 or so, that’s with me “walking” it off LOL!
Thanks for including all of your links again…much appreciated. Last year, I used some of your links to make purchases for our school room and I was soooo hoping you’d do the same this year.
Blessings on the coming start of your new year!
Ruth
Of all the school rooms I have seen on the blogs, your is by far the best! Not only is it super organized to reduce clutter, it looks totally inviting. I love al the matching furniture.
Wow! Your room is amazing, I’d never want to leave lol, don’t know about the kiddos! Love the white and open feel, I’ll be posting my school room sometime today!
Looks great! Love your set up!
🙂 Colleen
Love the additions. I am using the Micke for my desk as well, love it.
You room is incredible! Love the furniture and organization. One question: HOW in the world did you ever get your wall to exactly fit the reading nook and book shelves to the smallest millimeter with no gaps? They look like custom built in’s.
I just looked up your last three classroom set up’s and it is great to see your school room evolve over each year! This years is my favorite.
1.) http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2010/08/our-homeschool-room-2010-2011.html
2.) http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2011/08/our-schoolroom-on-ikea.html
BTW- the link to the Ikea Expedit 31”x15”x58” actually goes to the taller 72″ shelving unit, and thought you might want to switch it?
Luck LOL! I actually had planned it to go in a different arrangement, it just worked out that it all fit along that one wall!
I will not covet. I Will Not Covet! I WILL NOT COVET!!! (OK, at least I’m *trying* not to!!!) 😉
Erica, I think your school room looked amazing last year! I didn’t think it could look any better, but there it is…EVEN BETTER! Way to go! And, seriously…thanks for sharing! Maybe it will just inspire me to work more on mine! 🙂
God Bless,
Misti
“Yep, you know you’re a homeschooler when you start sacrificing your scrapbooking supplies in the name of school.”
I find myself doing this a lot. There are so many great things to create with from my scrapbook room.
I love your set up. Have a great year of learning!