Homeschool Talk: School Rooms

Since we are starting school on Monday this weekend's topic is school rooms. I thought it would be fun to take a tour of some school rooms of other homeschoolers.

So, if you'd like to be part of the tour, this is all you have to do:
Join in below using MckLinky.
Post about your school room or area on your blog and link back to mine.
Then click on the participants in the MckLinky list and visit everyone's school room.

This is our schoolroom.

It is actually the 5th bedroom in the house. We are starting to outgrow it.

I hope we can move next year into a house with a bigger schoolroom.

This is Nathan's desk. The dry erase board is new for this school year. We had a small one, but realized we needed a bigger one...I'm excited about it!

This is Claire's desk. I got it at a sale from a private school that was closing. I just love it. It is the perfect size for her. When she gets older we'll get her one like Nathan's so her computer will not have to have a separate cart.


This is my desk. Unfortunately it isn't usually this neat!

Here is one of the many bookshelves we have in our house! We just love books!

The kids really like the calendar too...its one where they put the date on each day. Also, another bulleting board. I really think the bulletin boards give a "school feel" to the room.

Ok, this is my favorite part of my school room.
Since its a bedroom it has a walk in closet.

As you can see, we've taken advantage of every inch of it!

We have scrapbooks, photo albums, board games, school books, school supplies, you name it...its in here! And notice the nice labels on everything. I just got a label maker and I went to town with it in this closet!

Ok, that's our school room, now let's see yours!

Postcard Friendship Friday #19

Welcome to another Postcard Friendship Friday hosted by Marie at http://www.cpaphilblog.com/ Stop by her site to join in or see other postcards.

This is mission #2 from our Texas Mission Trip. This is San Jose. (I'll post another mission next week.) San Jose is the largest of all the missions. The grounds were huge! The whole mission is walled in. The outer structures are the apartment like living quarters.

This is my daughter looking out of one of the windows in the living quarters.

This is the inside of the Church.

There were several wells and stone ovens in the inside "courtyard" area of the mission. This is me and the kids at one of the wells.

This is the granery where they stored their grain. It was a huge room. I was standing about in the middle when I took this picture so there was that much more behind me.

You can go here to read more info on the missions: http://www.nps.gov/saan/

Thousand Word Thursday

The Mom Jen at Cheaper than Therapy--Musings of The Mom Jen is hosting Thousand Word Thursday today. Click the link above to join in or see others. Here are my pictures that are worth a thousand words...

My kids' first s'mores...we had to make them indoors over the stove because it's been raining here for the last 2 weeks!

Wordless Wednesday: Toy Box

Heather at simly joyful photos is hosting Wordless Wednesday today. Stop by her blog to join or see more. http://simplyjoyfulphotos.blogspot.com/

Monday Mayhem

Anyone who knows me knows I HATE Mondays! Everything always seems to go wrong on a Monday. And for some reason I almost never get a good night's sleep on Sunday night. Today, one of those Monday things seems to be underlining stuff I don't want underlined!

Here are some pics from my Monday today....

I was really tired from no sleep last night so I tried to take a little nap. Well, Nathan decided to make a snack for himself and Claire. I was woken up by Claire saying "Our popcorn bag has a hole in it."

Me: "ok, why are you waking me up?"

Claire: "Well there's smoke."

Me: "ok, I'm up!"

Mom's cooking lesson for today... "It doesn't matter how long the bag says to set the microwave for, you have to stop it when you stop hearing pops!"

(My whole house now smells awful!)

Our bag is still packed for the pool...I promised the kids I'd take them to this certain play pool this summer. Last Thursday as we were walking out the door to go it started raining so I just left the bag packed so we could go this week.

This is our weather for today...

and the forecasted weather for the rest of the week!


Really, Claire? You thought I'd be ok with you putting your tea on the couch?
(At least she used a coaster!)

I didn't even ask about this one...I was just glad it was George and not our cat!

Blogger Award

My friend Kara at Eskimo Kisses and Air Hugs gave me this award.
Thanks, Kara!

The rules of the Honest Scrap Award are to reveal 8 honest things about yourself.

Here are my 8:

1. I'm a pessimist. Always have been. The glass is always half empty to me!

2. I hate to grade papers. I know, I'm a homeschooler with only 2 students, but still, I dread it everyday!

3. I never put the cap back on pens.

4. I love to plan and organize things...parties, bookclubs, activities, you name it.

5. I like everything to be symmetrical. My husband makes fun of me, but everything has to be balanced and symmetric in our house!

6. I love turtles. I've had several as pets and I will stop if I see one on the road and move it to the side so it doesn't get hit. My dream vacation is a trip to the Galapagos Islands.

7. Even though I live in the city and have for many years, I grew up in the country. I was in 4-H and FFA, I raised chickens, judged dairy products, seen calves born and I have even seen a hog castrated! That's something most people don't really know about me since I don't really do those things anymore! For the record...I like the city life better--It's much more convenient.

8. I read magazines from cover to cover. I don't skip around. My husband thinks this is very weird...I think it is efficient!

Now, I always have a hard time deciding who to pass a blogger award to, so as a thanks to the people who read my blog, if you are visiting my blog today I am offering it to you! :-) All you have to do is post 8 honest things about yourself on your blog. Happy Monday!

Weekend Homeschool Talk

Our school year is about to start up again...just one more week of summer for us! We school from Aug-Apr. and take our summer May-Jul. Its cooler weather and my son is usually busy with baseball in May so its nice to be finished with school then.

I tried to have a seperate homeschool blog last year, but I just didn't have the time to keep up with it so I'm going to try out a weekly homeschool post this year instead. I'm planning to post it on the weekends when I have more time. I want to use this to share homeschooling ideas and such. I try to be really creative with my kids especially in the area of literature so I'm going to be posting a lot about our Literature units and activities. I also like to share any good resources or websites I come across.

Next weekend will be the weekend right before we start school so if I can figure out how to use Mr. Linky I'm planning on having a tour of schoolrooms/areas. I thought it would be fun to post pictures of our school room and look at others as well. I love to go to another homeschooler's house and look at how they do it! And it's a great way to get ideas too! So, come back next weekend and tell other homeschoolers that might want to join in too!

And if you'd like a good laugh click on the homeschool family video link in my margin. Tim Hawkins is my favorite comedian. (and he's a homeschooler too!)