Our Homeschool Room 2014-15
Our homeschool room doesn’t look a lot different this year than it did last year or the year before. We still have a lot of books. Probably too many, if I’m honest. And we use them. We do read alouds, and the girls have curriculum resources they work from most days. But the more we homeschool, and the more I learn about how children (especially those with special needs) learn, the less our homeschool has become about being “school at home” and the more it has become a lifestyle of learning that we all enjoy together.
So, while a lot of our learning happens at home, it doesn’t all happen in our school room. Some of it happens in the den:
Some of the learning we do happens in a friend’s backyard:
Sometimes we learn during a field trip to the zoo,
Or a state park,
Or a national park.
Sometimes our learning occurs through technology instead of books.
Sometimes it happens in waiting rooms.
Sometimes it happens while playing board games (or teaching a pumpkin to play a game).
Sometimes it happens during therapy.
Sometimes learning happens at museums (we especially like the ones with hands-on science activities!).
Sometimes it happens at the kitchen table.
Sometimes learning happens while participating in charity events.
Sometimes we learn during homeschool co-op classes.
Sometimes we learn while making hats for a local homeless ministry.
Sometimes learning takes place on mission trips.
Sometimes learning takes place on the road, traveling to and from homeschool conventions.
Some learning takes place at the fair on the educational day they host for kids every year.
Most days you’ll find us at home, our noses in the books, and quite possibly in our homeschool room. But if we’re not there, you can be assured we’re still learning . . . somewhere!
Other posts in the Not Back-to-School Blog Hop:
- Homeschool Curriculum Choices 2014-15 (4th and 6th grades)
- Homeschool Student Photos 2014-15
- A Typical Homeschool Day 2014-15
What does your homeschool room look like this year? Share it during school room week at iHomeschool Network’s Not Back-to-School Blog Hop!
I really enjoy your blog! I have a daughter with possible autism / SPD and have found your posts to be so helpful. I imagine this will be especially true when it’s time for her to begin school.
Would you mind telling me what stroller your daughter uses (pictured in Our Homeschool Room 2014-2015 post)? I currently use a sling, but my daughter has just turned four and I’m not sure how long that will last.
Thanks so much!
Jennifer
Thank you so much for the words of encouragement, Jennifer! I’m blessed that you have found some help here! I certainly hope you will continue to visit as your daughter gets older and begins school. That can be such an exciting (and frightening) time.
The stroller is a Convaid Cruiser. We were blessed to get it at a significant discount from a family whose child could no longer use it.
I look forward to interacting with you more soon!
So true! Learning happens everywhere. We’re learning while grocery shopping and while baking Christmas cookies together, even though we’re officially “off school” in December. It’s all learning.
Exactly! The learning never stops. I have been amazed over and over again at how much my kids learn every day—even after we close the books.
I really enjoyed this post! I believe that learning happens everywhere as well. My daughter just started studying a Pony Club Manual for her hippotherapy sessions. She wants to learn about when horses get sick, and much more. She has mild/moderate cerebral palsy, and this is our second year of homeschool.
Thank you, Heather! I think it’s fantastic that she’s learning all of that. Our therapeutic riding center may be delayed in starting the fall session. I found out last night that seven of the horses are lame and one has a sunburn! There’s so much to learn about horses!
My daughter’s favorite horse has had a sunburn too. She’s white and has a pink nose that gets sunburned all the time if you don’t put sunblock on. I hope all of the horses are better soon. My goodness!
Thanks, Heather! Me too!
I really enjoyed all of your pictures. And you’re so right.. learning is happening everywhere, wherever we go (or don’t go)… creating that environment it key and you are doing that soooo well!
Thank you, Rachel! Yes, learning happens all the time . . . everywhere!
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Love all of your pics! We are homeschooling 3 children now, 2 on with autism, etc. Between therapeutic riding, speech, OT, PT, play therapy, music therapy, skills training and MD appointments we also spend a great deal of time each week having “school” in our van, waiting rooms and surrounding areas (when the weather cooperates).
Blessings!
Exactly! I think our lives are very similar! (See my “Typical Homeschool Day 2014-15” post! 😉 ) It is quite a busy life, isn’t it?