Where do you typically do your schooling?

Candice · Post by **Candice** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:23 pm

Most of our school type stuff is done on the living room floor because we can spread out with crayons or puzzles, books and crafts. I imagine when we do more "seatwork" type stuff we will utilize our large dining room table as well. My husband and I also finally cleaned up our garage and created a play type area on one side. We bought a cheap area rug and put down some fluffy pillows and will soon move some toy bins into the area as well. I am thinking this would be a great place for reading and playing and to just to have a change of scenery. My daughter thinks it's cool, she has already dumped her dolls on the area rug for "dolly time".

So, where do you do school? Anything out of the ordinary?

Candice

mom2boys030507 · Post by **mom2boys030507** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:09 pm

We do most of it in the School room - an extra bedroom on our main floor. This is where we do all of our seat work. The boys also use this as a second playroom - we try to keep the more educational toys in there. We do our reading on the couch.

Melanie · Post by **Melanie** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:28 pm

Kitchen table and couch in the living room... we're pretty simple.

Candice- we do utilize our garage, but in a different way...they ride bikes and skate in there when they can talk one of us into backing out the vehicles. Your idea sounds a lot less rowdy and damaging to the garage!

familymgrkendra · Post by **familymgrkendra** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:35 pm

We actually use the small table in the Toy Room. I have found it easier to do it in there so that I can keep an eye on the other 2 boys, plus the closet is where we store our school stuff.

beandip71 · Post by **beandip71** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:21 pm

We have a bonus room the we use as an office, playroom, and school room. Over Christmas break my dh put a 6 foot table up behind the couch that we now use for school. My dd is on one side doing her school work and my ds is on the other side playing legos. So far it is working out great.

Amy in Ohio · Post by **Amy in Ohio** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:09 pm

I actually just converted our formal dining room into our schoolroom. We never ate in there and it just seemed like the perfect room to use. Before, we were in our basement in one of the spare rooms and I always felt like we trudging down into a dungeon. Now, I have made good use of a room that always just 'looked pretty' as we walked by.

my2guys · Post by **my2guys** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:40 pm

Melanie wrote:Kitchen table and couch in the living room... we're pretty simple.

Same for us.

blessedmomof4 · Post by **blessedmomof4** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:30 am

my2guys wrote:
Melanie wrote:Kitchen table and couch in the living room... we're pretty simple.
Same for us.

Same here-I wish we could use our garage, but we live in public hjousing and are not ALLOWED to use the garage for anything but the car

netpea · Post by **netpea** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:03 am

Wellll.....

When we lived at Grammy's house, it was the living room (for LHTH). At the Apartment it was the kitchen table (LHFHG) and now that we have a house again with a dedicated schoolroom...

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It's still the kitchen table.

Unfortunately, I am a, shall we say, messy housekeeper, so the schoolroom / office is a wreck and we are at the kitchen table which forces me to clean up before DH gets home for dinner.

Lee Ann

Tansy · Post by **Tansy** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:58 pm

we live in a tiny house 1200 sf so we did do her school in the kitchen for a bit but that did not work out our kitchen is tiny.. so we went to ikea and got her a long desk. We put it in her room (oo bout 12 x14) with special drawers for her work and a big box for the books. Her bed is from ikea so everything matches and is just the right size. tehy speclize in living in small spaces.

its much simpler for us this way it all gets packed up at night.
if she is doing seat work I can fold clothes with tv on in living room and watch matlock. which was not possible b4

i keep the crafty stuff in a cupboard in the kitchen.

BTW I love my tiny house I'm not complaining. Its more than I would have if i lived in India

my3sons · Post by **my3sons** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:42 pm

Everywhere! Now that I've got 3 wiggly boys, we use the whole house! We do read-alouds on the living room couch or upstairs in one of the bedrooms. We use the kitchen and dining room tables for seatwork, and my sons can do their independent reading wherever they want to - which has been somewhat interesting to watch! A pillow and blankets seem to be able to transform any place into a good reading room (even the bathroom floor has been picked before)! We did get my oldest a desk in his room which he rarely uses. I thought he'd like to do his independent work there because he likes it quiet so he can concentrate, but he didn't like it and prefers to be by the rest of us for now.

We have a caddy (The Pampered Chef Tool Turnaround) for all of our art supplies, which helps it to be very mobile and easily switched from room to room. That helps! You would not believe how much STUFF can fit in that caddy!

momof4 · Post by **momof4** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:44 pm

We do ours on the kitchen table or the couch for reading. We are looking at our family room downstairs trying to figure out the best use for it. Part of it may become a school room, but that changes from day to day.

I like the idea of using part of the garage for a play area, but I'd have to send our kids out in snowsuits and move the snowblower, sleds and snow shovels so I don't think it will work for right now.

Laurie

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Where do you typically do your schooling?

Where do you typically do your schooling?

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