The Homeschool Classroom

So this is our little
classroom. It is small
but functional. It use to be our breakfast room! Hey until I get a homeschool room added on to my house, you work with what you have. This is Everitt's first year to homeschool so I was a little nervous on how he would do with his room and toys being only a few feet away, but he did great. We just keep a tight schedule and when I ding our schools out bell he knows the rest of the house is open. Here they are at their desk. Everitt is using McKaylin's old slant board and is doing great with it.
Each day we have two helpers, a weather person and a mail person. The weather person checks the temp. and the weather and places the weather card on the calendar which we graph out the end of each month. The mail person is in charge of handing out all the school "mail" (their assignment subjects) for the day. When all the mail has been filled in and checked each child mails their work in the classroom mailboxes. when the flag is up, you get to get a treasure chest candy. Man , candy is the ultimate motivator in our house. My kids do not get it every day, so they will finish and work hard for it on school days. We have recess, computer ect, just like reg. schools do and our school day runs from 9to 3.






I have to face them away from each other. I mean they are brother and sister and this is not a storybook. There would be faces and loss of patience all around
if not. LOL!

Everitt is busy at work. He has learned to write his name, and knows all his shapes, most all his colors..orange is still hard for him, and has learned the letters and sounds up to letter H. All that has come since the start of school. When we started he only knew a few colors and shapes and that was all. So I am so excited at his progress.







Because teaching a five year old involves lots of sounds and songs McKaylin uses noise cancellation headphones to do her work. She gets all the work she can do by herself done then when Everitt takes his nap we do the heavy subjects of Math, reading, and language.
McKaylin has also made progress and is writing in cursive her whole name and has learned all the cursive letters. We are just working on connecting them. Math is a real struggle in our house, but she keeps a good attitude and keeps trying and trying. Her history is great this year. We are doing Tapestry of Grace. She loves it and is learning a ton!














Here Everitt is using headphones to do his
Montessori activities. In our house it called shelves. He does four shelf activities a day. They are just real hands on learning. I am usually calling out spelling words and finishing language with McKaylin during this time. It is great and keeps him busy so I can complete the heavy work with McKaylin.




So that is a little look at our homeschooling. It is coming along, and going well. I feel so Blessed!