Three Little Jewells

School Room Changes

We’ve made a few changes to the school room recently!

Our piano teacher requested that we move the key board downstairs, next to our piano, so that he could use both during a lesson.   So that freed up some desk space in the school room.  I took this as an opportunity to set up a drawing center for the children.   There is a small 3 drawer container that holds colored pencils, crayons, sharpeners, erasers, etc.   Next to it is small silver bin that holds stencils.   The big drawer holds paper, notebooks & how-to-draw books.

We finally got my netbook up and running again!   The children enjoy using it to play starfall.com- a website that has phonics and reading games.

Oh, I am so happy with myself!  I’ve had this lazy-susan stored in one of my cabinets for years & years- probably 10 or more.  The only reason I didn’t get rid of it was because it was my mothers.    I had the recent epiphany to bring it up to the school room and put it in the middle of our big table.   Why oh why didn’t I think of this years ago??  It holds all of our STUFF, corralled in one place, easy to turn and find what you need.  I love it.  (The basket on the left holds “extras” that I want to get to during the week with the big kids- a money game & logic activities and the one on the right holds Savvy’s weekly preschool activities, which I rotate out every week.)

A few of our maps from this school year so far…   The top one we used to track Dad, Sarah & Mike on their big trip out West.

Listening Center- all of our cassettes, CD’s and song books in one place.