Homeschool Room Tour: 2021 Update

My eldest is now an incoming Year 1 student (my, how time flies!) and now I have a 2 year old who is also eager to join the lessons. This calls for another homeschool room update!

Taking inspiration from homeschooling the Classical and Charlotte Mason way, take a look inside our latest mini makeover.

Welcome!

Welcome to Halden and Clyde Academy! Yes, I’ve created a name and logo for our home “school” 😉 Haha definitely not something you need to do but it’s just one of the many things thought would make studying at home a little bit more fun. Haha.

I had the logo printed on sintra board from my favorite printer 3L’s Digital. More on the name and logo next time!

Teacher’s Desk

This is my little personal space in the room.

I have a desk set up in this area and behind this is where I keep all my files, teacher’s guides and other supplies that I don’t the kids to have easy access to. (Like all my nice board paper collection! Hehe.)

New wall decors up!

I got rid of my old corkboard and deer head display (see photos here!) and I also replaced the yellow paint with black chalkboard sticker. I think this totally changed the vibe of the room, and I love it.

But I want to talk about the gorgeous prints on the wall! I got the dinosaur poster as a gift, the banner and the space travel poster from an online shop but all the rest I had them printed with 3L’s Digital again. And would you believe those beautiful natural history posters are available FREE? You can download them over here!

I had such a hard time choosing that I had multiple posters printed and thought I’d just do a rotation every few months or so! And no CM homeschool room is complete without a natural history poster, am I right? 😉 Haha

Toddler Area

My 2 year old is always so excited to join “hom-skoo” so it was just fitting that he also has a special spot. This is where I place his books, toys and other manipulatives. I rotate the items here regularly.

I’ve shared more tips when making a room work for multiple kids of varying ages over here: Making our Homeschool Room Work for a 5 Year Old and a 1 Year Old)

Books and Displays

And here’s the other side of the room.

Here you’ll find our front-facing bookshelf (read here why I call it my magic shelf,) a bookshelf for our school books, our display area and my all-new pegboard! More details on each below:

Display Area

This is where we display all of the kids’ works.

On the shelves are where I place their markers and paints. It’s intentionally out of their reach so that I can only give them the exact materials they need, when they need it. 😉

Art prints and Decor

Here we display the art prints of the artist we are currently studying. We take on one artist every 1-2 months.

Pegboard

I’m so happy with my new pegboard! I’m sure I’ll be switching it all up eventually and that this will undergo a number of makeovers and that’s what’s so great about it. I love how it’s so versatile.

Right now, it’s kind of my own #SparkJoy corner where I placed my super adorable Van Gogh Funko behind a Starry Night clay art that Luke and I made together.

School Books

And this is where we keep all the books and materials we need for studying. I place them on bins and categorized it per subject so it’s easy to pull in and out.

We follow the CM-way of doing short lessons. This means we cover a lot of subjects in our 2-hour study period so it’s crucial that I can easily access the materials fast. I imagine I’ll need to expand next time when 2 kids are studying and Luke has more more subjects to cover… but I’ll worry about that next time!

My David pen holder is one of my favorite fun purchases. I love that he gives off that Classical feel. Haha. Anyway, I turned it purely into a pencil holder because the kids seem to be eating up all our pencils (as we keep losing them!)

Let’s Talk Organization

Most of the things I’ll be sharing in this section, I’ve already shared before. And I think that’s a great testimony of how effective these are for us. I’m happy knowing that my system has worked over the years and that I didn’t need to do much tweaking.

BOOKS:

We have a huge book collection and it’s always a challenge to organize. For now, this is how our system looks like.

Here on this shelf is where I place all our non-fiction books. You can read all about our system and get more organization tips here: Organizing and Categorize

Our storybooks are all located at the floor so that they are easily accessible to the kids.

MATERIALS:

LEFT: This is where I put all of the kids’ crayons and pens. It’s easily accessible to them.

And if you see the signs below, this is where we temporarily put their projects that are either “in-progress” or “on display!” I think it’s so important to assign a place for everything so that the kids know where each place goes.

RIGHT: A photo of our paper tray for special paper. They are located on my desk.

OTHER THINGS:

And you might be wondering where we store all our little knick knacks: it’s in our covered cabinet! But I made sure that even if it’s in a hidden area, that everything still has a proper home.

Previous Room Designs

And there you go, I hope you enjoyed our homeschool tour!

If you’ve been following for quite a while now, you’ll notice that our homeschool room has undergone quite a number of makeovers and changes. And I think, that’s really just how it is, isn’t it? We keep updating the rooms to make it work for our kids and the current season in our lives.

Sharing with you some photos from our previous makeovers. I love our most recent look but do you prefer any of these older versions of the room?

2017-2019: (Tour the 2018-2019 room here!)

2020: (Tour the 2020 room here!)

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RELATED POSTS:

• Making Our Homeschool Room Work for a 5yo and 1yo
• Tips When Setting Up Your Homeschool Room
• Homeschool Room: 2020 Update
• Homeschool Room: 2017-2019

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