Homeschool School Room Spring Cleaning

Ok, urged on by the need to get this finished, a timely thread on The Well Trained Mind and a real need to stop reading about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, I'm off to do some spring cleaning in our school room.

Actually, I'm not sure if you can call it spring cleaning, since I'm still unpacking and setting up the space. Our school room is in the basement. That will probably be lovely in the summer months, but it can be a bit chilly when it is cooler. I'm not really willing to use a space heater or to open up the heating vents down there, because that will drive our electric bill through the roof. I imagine that we'll be getting lots of use out of our snuggies in the winter.

This is the view from the stairs. As you can see, we have a few books. I was able to get most of them out of boxes and onto shelves, but they aren't arranged by topic as much as I'd like.

This is looking toward the back door. I'd like to move the table onto the rugs and put another rug on this side for Playmobil and Lego play.

This is looking toward the stairs. Those are boxes that need to be unpacked and dealt with.

All in all, I've got my work cut out for me. By the way, I don't think that a school room is necessary, essential or even the best way to homeschool. This is primarily to give us a place to put our books and to spread out projects without having to put them away for every meal. I imagine that even when this is finished, we will do a large part of our school on the living room couch or in bean bags in bedrooms. The kids are anxiously awaiting warm weather so they can do their work on the back porch. So don't take this clean up as a suggestion that you need to have some big dedicated space in order to be a good or effective homeschooler.