Not-Back-to-School-Blog-Hop: School Room week!

This is the 2nd week for the 'not-back-to-school-blog-hop' and this week, everyone will be sharing pictures of their school room, or if they dont have a school room, the area they do school in. So here is ours. *link is at the bottom to go to the blog hop to see more*

We have an eat in kitchen so we really dont use the diningroom to eat in, so we decided to use IT for our school room. When we first moved here 4years ago, we started out schooling in the basement but always seemed to drift back upstairs, so I thought, 'why fight it?'
Originially I did NOT want a 'schooly' looking house. However, this seems to be what is working out best for us, so I'm just gonna go with it!

This is the main portion of our school room. *click on pictures to enlarge*
If I go stand by the table in the above picture and turn around, this is the other end of the school room. This was suppose to be a 2nd living room, but again, never used as such. The door way in the left of the picture leads to our living room, the doorway to the right leads to the hall and stairs to go downstairs. This end of the room is our computer station. The table along the left side of the picture is where we dry out art projects.

Here is a closer up look at the area. A lot of the stuff under the table is my craft stuff. The green box on the table holds book basket books for our My Father's World curriculum.

This is my 'active' bookcase and holds all our current curriculum. Well, mostly. The top shelf is my stuff, the middle shelf has teachers manuals, read alouds and the little 3 drawer unit holds math flashcards, post it note and white out tape. The 3rd shelf is all our MFW stuff. The 4th shelf is a hodge podge of workbooks. The bottom shelf holds Destroy Boys toys (which you cant see, its a disaster, trust me).

This book case holds books we may eventually use, workbooks I have purchased at yard sales, 'Book it' books (I have to ration out the books they read for book it time. My 9yr old reads a book a DAY). And encyclopedias as well as some of my vintage childrens books collection.

The 4 drawer unit houses crafts stuff and math u see blocks. The top drawer is a 'teacher drawer' that holds things like stapler, hole punches, tape, etc... My hubby installed a removeable swing in the door way here so Destroy Boy can swing when we do school (or whenever he feels like it). I can turn it around to face into the kitchen as well.

The 3 drawer unit on top of the 4drawer unit holds computer paper, lined paper, and construction paper.

This 4 drawer unit belongs to the girls. Each girl has their own drawer for their crayons and coloring books or whatever other treasures they want to put in there..

This is our game cabinet. It mainly houses board games and educational games as well as playdoh, and some extra craft stuff. The top holds our blanket time pieces for Destroy Boy as well as his 4 boxes of toys for blanket time. The green box holds a child sized accordion I got at a yard sale. No one here can play it, but they girls thinks its peachy to try!

This is my wall. On the top sheet I write down things I will need to order soon. Under that is my agenda for MFW. On the yellow wall is my daily schedule for school (which I posted last week), and under that is a yearly calendar.

I hope you enjoyed taking a peek into my schoolroom! Go to HERE to see more!