Welcome to our school room. We spend more time in this room than any other most days. I thought a tour was in order as many of you will not be able to visit me and see it for yourselves.
Our first stop is our storage cabinets full of our craft supplies, learning games and other fun activities. You can see the tables and desk. Rex and Cormac sit at the little table and desk and I am in the middle. Stephen uses the bigger table for his work. Blase usually sits at the kitchen table where I can see him. You will notice our newly installed lighting. We are a thrifty sorta family that uses and reuses anything we can. Who knew a pool light could double as a school light?? Will wonders never cease???
The second picture was taken from the area where the storage cabinets are. It shows the doorway back to the living room. You can see our large collection of children's books on the white bookshelves. The books on the brown shelves are science, literature and religion book sets.
Here is my area. The bookshelf holds my teacher resource books and books I spent too much money on to just let the boys have full access to. It also houses our office supplies down below. The roll top desk was a wonderful birthday present to me from Darren. I LOVE IT! The other desk has been down-graded to storage. The drawers underneath hold the boys' workbooks and notebooks.
Here is a picture of the roll top desk opened up.
This is above the down-grade desk. My Horton Hears a Who poster (From sun in the summer. From rain when it's fall-ish, I'm going to protect them. No matter how small-ish!). You will notice our friends and family pictures from the 2009 Christmas cards. Below that is our saints calendar. I have little saint pictures we place on there daily. It also lists the birthdays and special holidays of the month.
This is our Communion of Saints door. It is next to the calender and pictures. The door leads to the coat room and garage. You will notice Jesus is the Mystical Head of the Church. Below Him are a few examples of the Church Triumphant, including a cross heart for my brother St. Blase, entered heaven June 7, 1984. Under those pictures are the crosses representing the Church Suffering. We have listed a few friends and family who have past on. You will see another cross heart that has my brother Mark's name and death day on it. The bottom is our families listed as the Church Militant. The lightest pink has the names of Darren, myself and our children. The non-family Godparents are also on the lightest pink hearts. They are placed so they are connected to the Godchild's name. The next little bit darker pink hearts are Darren's parents and siblings. The darkest pink hearts of my parents, siblings and grandparents. One the sides of the gold trim you can barely see little pieces of paper. Those are the names of the priests we know, plus their ordination days. Ideally I'd check the door every so often to make sure we are praying for those people listed. It doesn't happen as often as I would like. Sometimes things just get put off and when its in front of you...all the harder to actually remember doing it!!!
No one room school room is complete without the stove. Here is our pellet stove in the corner with one of the white boards above. We have a great view of the back yard and deck from our school windows. We have had a family of deer watch us do our history class and many birds peek in for a lesson or two. Of course some birds tend to hit the window and disrupt our class, but even that is a welcome distraction for us. We love nature and love being so close to it.
Our first stop is our storage cabinets full of our craft supplies, learning games and other fun activities. You can see the tables and desk. Rex and Cormac sit at the little table and desk and I am in the middle. Stephen uses the bigger table for his work. Blase usually sits at the kitchen table where I can see him. You will notice our newly installed lighting. We are a thrifty sorta family that uses and reuses anything we can. Who knew a pool light could double as a school light?? Will wonders never cease???
The second picture was taken from the area where the storage cabinets are. It shows the doorway back to the living room. You can see our large collection of children's books on the white bookshelves. The books on the brown shelves are science, literature and religion book sets.
Here is my area. The bookshelf holds my teacher resource books and books I spent too much money on to just let the boys have full access to. It also houses our office supplies down below. The roll top desk was a wonderful birthday present to me from Darren. I LOVE IT! The other desk has been down-graded to storage. The drawers underneath hold the boys' workbooks and notebooks.
Here is a picture of the roll top desk opened up.
This is above the down-grade desk. My Horton Hears a Who poster (From sun in the summer. From rain when it's fall-ish, I'm going to protect them. No matter how small-ish!). You will notice our friends and family pictures from the 2009 Christmas cards. Below that is our saints calendar. I have little saint pictures we place on there daily. It also lists the birthdays and special holidays of the month.
This is our Communion of Saints door. It is next to the calender and pictures. The door leads to the coat room and garage. You will notice Jesus is the Mystical Head of the Church. Below Him are a few examples of the Church Triumphant, including a cross heart for my brother St. Blase, entered heaven June 7, 1984. Under those pictures are the crosses representing the Church Suffering. We have listed a few friends and family who have past on. You will see another cross heart that has my brother Mark's name and death day on it. The bottom is our families listed as the Church Militant. The lightest pink has the names of Darren, myself and our children. The non-family Godparents are also on the lightest pink hearts. They are placed so they are connected to the Godchild's name. The next little bit darker pink hearts are Darren's parents and siblings. The darkest pink hearts of my parents, siblings and grandparents. One the sides of the gold trim you can barely see little pieces of paper. Those are the names of the priests we know, plus their ordination days. Ideally I'd check the door every so often to make sure we are praying for those people listed. It doesn't happen as often as I would like. Sometimes things just get put off and when its in front of you...all the harder to actually remember doing it!!!
No one room school room is complete without the stove. Here is our pellet stove in the corner with one of the white boards above. We have a great view of the back yard and deck from our school windows. We have had a family of deer watch us do our history class and many birds peek in for a lesson or two. Of course some birds tend to hit the window and disrupt our class, but even that is a welcome distraction for us. We love nature and love being so close to it.
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