Updating Our Homeschool Space

As Munchkin travels through her homeschooling journey, we constantly find ourselves needing to adjust her subjects and schooling style. Often, these adjustments lead to changes in our homeschool area(s) and homeschool book/supply organization. Recently, we found that our previous setup was no longer working for us. We weren’t really utilizing the separate space as we have started schooling in the living room rather than upstairs. Munchkin was keeping her supplies in a basket, but this looked cluttered and took up too much space. It was also hard to keep the books looking nice when they were being stored in the basket. I knew it was time for an update.

I decided that I wanted to move the cubby system that D had built for me downstairs, but it wouldn’t look all that great because I had never gotten around to painting the mdf cubbies. So, I set aside some time to do lots of painting. (Since I had several cubbies that had never been painted, I wanted to try to get it all done at once. Less clean-up is always a plus in my book.) Once painted, we did some rearranging of the various cubbies and bookcases to create our new homeschool storage space. (Pictured above: dvd storage cases that look like books. It allows me to consolidate the dvds, so they don’t take up as much space. Plus, these storage cases look nice on the shelf.)

Along the wall, we now have cubbies/bookcases. The first bookcase contains all of our most used resources as well as our homeschool curriculum. (My teacher’s guides are in the next bookcase which also houses cookbooks and home economics resources.) The bookcase at the furthest end contains baskets which hold various electronics, gaming items, exercise things… And no, these bookcases do not house all of our books – not even close. lol! It’s just a way to keep all of the most used, currently used books within easy reach.

Because I didn’t want paperwork to get lost or start to get out of control (you know that happens all too easily), I used a wooden tray that I had for all of the paperwork (to do, to be graded, graded…). Once Munchkin has looked over the graded paperwork, it will be filed. Periodically, I go through and sort through the paperwork to decide what to keep and what to do toss. With regular moves, I can not hang on to everything she does. For now, this system is working for us. I love how organized everything feels, and it makes sense for our current space.