Sunday, August 7, 2011

Where We Do School


We "do school" in a lot of different places: the living room, the mountains, the back yard, at my parents' house, at the dining room table, at enrichment classes, etc. We're all about life learning.

But we really do actually have a dedicated school room. We are blessed to have a whole apartment attached to our house. For the first eight years that we lived here, my parents snowbirded (yes, I said that, and I'm sticking to it) in the apartment. Now that they bought a house and live down the street full time, we've converted it into the school room/guest house/hang-out. We do the vast majority of our book-learning here:



We have tons of bookshelves and room for a couple of more, a table, couch, plenty of drawers, and even a little gas fireplace. Plus, we can stick anything up on the wall without feeling decorating angst. It's a sweet set-up.

Speaking of decorating angst, Laurel also uses this spot in the apartment kitchen for her own private work area. She tries not to lick the Willy-Wonka wallpaper too much. (Yes, that is one of my upcoming painting projects. Someday.) During the winter, we actually close off this room and only use the living room, which stays nice and toasty.

The computer is at the house, so we do tromp over here whenever we need to internet. I love having the apartment to actually go to for school. The kids actually have to walk out one door and in another, and somehow that seems to make the transition from lounging around to school work more defined. Plus, I can escape to the house when I need to. Yep.

24 comments:

  1. oh, you have a gas fire place, how nice - thanks for the tour

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  2. you know - we could set up one of the old PCs in there to use when you need the internet if there was a good place to put a desk.

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  3. A whole apartment! I could get use to that!!! lol!!! Love your pictures.

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  4. I will be happy to help you paint....someday. But please do not ask me to help take down that lovely wallpaper ;)

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  5. Enjoyed your post & all the photos. I hope you have a coffee pot in there somewhere... lol
    I am now following your blog & look forward to reading more.

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  6. It's great that you have so much space to work in! It looks like a fun, welcoming place to learn--very cheerful and colorful!

    Have a wonderful year of homeschooling!

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  7. An ENTIRE apartment for school- oh how I envy your SPACE...(but NOT the *ahem* wallpaper...hee! hee!)

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  8. Wow, a whole apartment-lucky gal! Thanks for sharing your space =)

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  9. Nice! I like the idea of a whole other area for school!! :) That is a blessing. Thanks for sharing and I'll see you on the blog hop! Happy Homeschooling.

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  10. WOW what a space!!!!! Ours is also in an apartment but its the apartment we live in too so we have a teeny tiny space for our school room (aka the dining room), lol. Great organizing.

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  11. That is so awesome! I cannot imagine having a space attached but separate! wow!! Great use of everything!

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  12. That sounds awesome;) I bet it does help with the mental transition from home to school. And probably keeps you focused too... I'm always trying to sneak in a load of laundry, start a meal, etc!

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  13. love this! we converted the dining room to a school room and moved the dining room table to the sunroom that's on the back of our house. the school room isn't completely removed from the house...but we do have a big chalkboard, bookshelves and kid art on the wall!

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  14. Awesome! The Willy-Wonka wallpaper made me laugh. Do the snozzberries taste like snozzberries?!?

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  15. That's really neat that you have a totally separate space...not even a separate room! It looks very cozy, and comfy. Who wouldn't want to learn in this room? :)
    Blessings,
    Candace @ Growing with the Greniers

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  16. I wish we had a separate apartment for schoolwork - think how much more curriculum I could hang onto. :)

    Your space looks like a great place for schoolwork. And very cheerful!

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  17. That would be so cool to have an apartment to use!! Even the willy wonka paper! Love that comment!!!

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  18. That would be awesome to have a separate place like that!

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  19. What a great use of space! Have a wonderful year!

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  20. I really like the idea of having a separate space! Looks like a great place to get work done.

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  21. Oh, that looks wonderful! How nice too to have a place where you can leave out big, extended projects while you work on them over time.

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  22. How nice to have such a good sized space.

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