LOTS and LOTS of bags have been thrown away. I finally have parted with the girls' math workbooks. How many did I have? Well, let's see ...... kinder, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, kinder, 1st, 2nd, and kinder. I don't know why I was saving them. Maybe for their ACT's or SAT's?!? LOL!
Honestly, they represented hours and hours of hard work. And math is one of my favorite homeschooling subjects. I better stop talking about it before I go dig them back out of the trash bags!!
I'm still purging! I'm happy to say that progress has been made. Here are pics of the new desk and bookshelf. They are so much happier now that they have found a home!
The top portion is holding coloring books, crayons, scissors, colored pencils, envelopes, writing paper, stickers, tape and stapler. Also handy is the cd player and dictionaries. The drawer holds ALL of our flashcards (state/capital, number, +,-,*,/, UNO cards, phonograms, Greek/Latin root words, Latina Christiana I cards .... I think that's it so far).
The bottom half holds ALL the music cd's needed for this school year. Sophia, Anna and Isabelle each have their cd's they will listen to for music. Although, they will end up listening to each other's as well. Kolbe will just be ahead of the game thanks to his big sisters. Also, extra school supplies like crayons, glue, pencils, etc. I'm hoping they don't touch them. If so, I'll have to move my stockpile.
Books on the new shelf. Scary how its already more than half full!! LOL!
Finally, my favorite change is the removal of Catherine's toys from the schoolroom. I don't mind if she plays in here, I just can't store her toys in the schoolroom anymore. I cleared the closet space underneath the stairs and turned it into the toy closet. Now, all baby toys, tinker toys, etc. go in there. She's happy to have all her books handy on the little shelf right next to the sofa chairs. I've had to stop SEVERAL times during my purging to read my munchkin a book. I'm glad she gets the point!!
In case you should think I'm nesting, I'm not. I do this EVERY summer. I have to reorganize and throw away stuff from our schoolroom annually. I'm always amazed how much cr*p we accumalate in one year. Now I understand why school hallways look the way they do during the summer!! LOL!
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I can't wait till we move so I can set up house all over again...new school room, new kitchen, new living room, new bedrooms...I love reorganizing, but I've got everything here as best it can be and there's been no furniture to move for two years now.
When we lived in Germany, one of Davey's friends would come over every Saturday to play chess. He always remarked when the living room furniture was in the same place it was last week. I changed it around that often!
All that to say... Have fun! I understand completely and can't wait to do it myself. :-)
Wow, you've really been busy. The schoolroom looks great!
Ooh, how exciting! I love a fresh new room!!
Lillian, you motivate me!
I may try to get some re-organization going over here this week... If my room looks half as good as yours I'll be happy :)
Bev
Hi Lillian,
The schoolroom looks great. We'll be in Fredericksburg for Aug/Sept so maybe we'll be able to stop by and see school in action.
~Michelle
Mmmmmm.........I'm drooling over the bookshelves. I love organization tools of all sorts and those baskets and cupboards are giving me schoolroom envy!
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