Homeschool set-ups! Where does your child homeschool? What room? Dining room table?

Question

Me and my wife have a whole room in our house that is the classroom ...we have 2 desks one for each of our kids. We have a real standard size chalkboard, bulletin boards (that my wife decorates) we have artwork on the walls ....we have a computer desk with 2 side by side computers for the kids to use. My wife has her laptop to use. We have a high price copy machine/ printer and scanner....for all worksheets. We have a reading area, also writing area. I love it....I was just wondering what kind of set ups other parents have for their homeschooled children? Is it the dining room table? Ours use to be while we were waiting to get our classroom furniture in. :) God Bless Homeschooling Families! (cause it's truly a labor of love)

Answer 1

We just get ours done either at the kitchen table or (weather permitting) outside at the picnic table.

I have a large pantry in the utilty room that holds all our school books and supplies.

We have one lap top computer that we all share.

I have a dry erase board mounted on my kitchen wall to use as needed.

I have large maps mounted on the walls in the playroom and the utility room, available for reference.

Nothing fancy, but it works for us.

Answer 2

We use much of the house. While the dining room table is certainly one spot, sometimes it will be on the living room floor or at the living room coffee table or in the den... We have an easel that is a white board on one side and a chalkboard on the other and also individual whiteboard/chalkboards. We will soon have a second computer, but only the one printer which is a copier/scanner as well.

We have no plans on having a school-style classroom. My dh works in a classroom all day and I had my fill while I was teaching. We'd like to have our home as our home!

Answer 3

Our set-up changes from year to year.

At first we used the living room chairs, the dining room table, desks in the bedrooms...etc.

Sometimes we have studied at home. Othertimes we study in the car or at a picnic table in a park. There were years where the children would bring their books to my place of part-time employment. They studied in the employee's room or on the floor next to my desk or better yet, sometimes at the BOSS' desk!

Now we have full size business desks in my at-home bookkeeping office. They use them for a little while but do most of their work in the house on the wonderful soft sofa!

There is a new yahoo group for those that are interested in or already doing home-school:
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/groups/homeschoolanswers

Answer 4

LOL!!! Hav mersee on meee and my famly. cain`t spel nothin just stewpid homeskoolers.

We do school in our basement, half of our unfinished basement is split into four different rooms, one for each of us. Each room has a desk, a DVD player and a TV for the school dvds. They also each have a shelf for storing books and supplies, and there is a computer that "me and my family" shares.
Anya- do you have ANY experience with homeschooled children at all? You obviously don`t, or you would know that homeschoolers are not socially inept. I hate it when people give advice on subjects that they so obviously know nothing about.

Answer 5

The office and the living room are both upstairs in our house, and they basically share one room, so I do most of my schoolwork from cdrom on the computer,then if I have reading to do, I sit in the living room and read there. The office is bascially a school room,with a big map of the USA on the wall, but both my parents have they're own websites, so I haven't really taken over the office.good question. I would have never asked that.

Answer 6

Typing "me and my wife" disqualifies you from homeschooling????????? LOL
Wonder if i should be roaming around loose because I start sentences with conjunctions and I combine publicschool like people do homeschool and I forget to capitalize things, and have mercy, but I even misspell stuff.
Sheesh!
OK, to answer your question, we have an office. Well, it was a dining room, but I did not have a dining set, so in come the desks. We have five desks in here: two with computers, and one each for "me and my kids" (LOL) Sometimes we work in here (office) but sometimes we work at the kitchen table, especially "me and my 2nd grader." Our kitchen is big and bright, so it's always been a favorite hangout. We also have a writing desk in the living room that the kiddos like to work at occaisionally, we read on the couches, we use trays to sit on the floor and do math sometimes.
Both kids have desks in their rooms so sometimes they go in there to work alone, we also like to go to the park...things like that.
Storage is all over the house. We have a couple of small bookshelves in the office, a large on in our wet bar area of our living room, built in bookshelves in a hallway, plus another small one in the entry way.
We love books.
I use banker boxes to store previous year's work. They stay in my bedroom for a year or so, in case we need something, then up in the attic they go.
Arts and crafts supplies are in storage bins wherever they will fit.
Great question, but sorry to hear it disqualifies you from raising your children they way you want to, ROFLOL!

Answer 7

I don't homeschool at home. I homeschool at an independent learning center where I am taught by who I want, where I teach myself, and where I teach others.

Answer 8

I school in my bedroom. Sometimes I will use my desk, sometimes I use the floor, sometimes I school on the bed. Sometimes I go to my living room and read my books on the couch. In the warmer months I school outside. One of the beauties of homeschooling is you can change places whenever you feel like :-).

Answer 9

Some great homeschool sites to check out:

www.homeschoolreviews.com
www.homeschooldiscount.com
www.hsadvisor.com
www.abeka.com
www.robinsoncurriculum.com
core-curriculum.com
www.k12.com
www.time4learning.com/homeschool-curriculum.htm
www.calvertschool.org

Answer 10

Hi I am homeschooeld by my mom and have been all my life. I have some prefrances

1.Reading is comfy on the couch or in a soft chair
2.Math,grammer, stuff like those at the table
3.Science table or outside
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If you read to you child and she or he gets dozed off give them a pencil,some colored ones and a clipboard(with paper) and let them draw pictures of that story or draw thigs of that timing(acient times,wars ect) or I draw what I like to draw,japanese comic people. But I still hear the story so I don't forget it because my people have the emotion of the story happening.

I might be 11 but I have more tips (e-mail me or IM me for more tips me and my mother recomend)