How to Set Up a Home School Classroom
Choosing to homeschool your children is an excellent option for some families. There is a lot of freedom and flexibility when it comes to what time of the day, or which days of the week you want to homeschool. The important thing is that you make a schedule and stick to it. You will also need a well-organized classroom set aside for your homeschoolers. This way your homeschooler will know that when they are in the classroom area, they must be studious.
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Choose an area of your home that can be designated for homeschool use only. This may be a spare room, finished basement, porch or section of a large room. The space should only be used during school hours so that children associate it with time for learning, and not goofing off.
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Set up a desk for your child to work at. The desk can be a regular school desk, or it could be just a small extra table you may have. As long as the desk is flat and fits a chair under it you are fine.
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Place the necessary school supplies on the desk in an orderly fashion. If your desk has a drawer, you can place the pencils, calculator, markers and erasers in there. If not you can use a coffee can to hold your pencils or school supplies. Place the coffee can on the corner of the desk.
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Add a bookshelf near the desk. This bookshelf can house your textbooks, notebooks and reading materials. It can even hold your grade book and attendance records. The bookshelf doesn't have to be large, and if you don't have room for one you can add some shelves above the school desk to hold these items.
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Place a cork board on a wall near your child's desk. The cork board should display a reminder for any assignments or projects that are due that month. You can also use the cork board to display your child's art projects or good grades. Your child can even help decorate the cork board with a theme each month.
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Tips & Warnings
You may want to set up a table for ongoing projects. These include growing plants in science class or watching tadpoles turn in to frogs. You may be keeping track weather patterns over the course of a semester, or you may be making a model of an Indian village.
Keep all decorations in your homeschool classroom educational. You can hang up posters of the presidents or a map of the world. If you are learning about famous painters, hang up a copy of one of their paintings. Any other type of decoration will distract your child from concentrating on his or her school work.
