Last month, I gave four reasons you DO NOT need a homeschool room. Reasons including the fact that you can homeschool anywhere (not just the schoolroom), and that it helps to keep the clutter under control because there is not a lot of storage space. I currently have each of my kids’ school spaces set up in their bedrooms.
This week, I wanted to let you know that I am not against them, and I definitely see the pros in having one. As I mentioned before, I have spent countless hours on Pinterest looking at all the fancy ways to decorate and organize homeschool rooms, and I’m still waiting for the day I will have one.
When I do get one I may or may not do back-flips and cartwheels through it 😉 I will be so excited to have one room for all things homeschool related. We’ll probably still end up “doing school” all over the house wherever we feel the most comfortable, but I can think of several reasons that I will love it!
One Room Storage
As it currently stands, I use our linen closet for homeschool storage. That means whenever we need material that isn’t in the kids room, I have to go to the closet and search through it to find what I need. That can be very inconvenient. Especially when we are really into a lesson, and I have to interrupt the flow of it to go the closet.
Having a dedicated schoolroom means I’ll have everything within arms reach. Everything will be stored in one place and I’ll feel more organized. No more interrupting a lesson to gather more supplies. No more feeling unprepared because I left a key ingredient in the closet, and now an experiment is ruined.
Having more storage also means I can keep more material to pass down to my younger children. In the reasons I mentioned for NOT having a schoolroom, I said that not having the space to store so much extra curriculum kept me from being a homeschool hoarder and hanging on to stuff I really don’t need. On the flip side of that argument, I am also on a pretty tight budget, and it is so helpful to be able to hang on to material to pass down to my younger kids. I don’t want to have to re-buy material that I could have kept, but had to get rid of because we didn’t have enough space to store it. For that reason, more storage is definitely a plus!
Space For Projects
One of the drawbacks of homeschooling in my kids’ bedrooms or even at the kitchen table is that when we are done, we have to clear everything away. Even when we are not finished sometimes, we have to clear away a project or experiment which may ruin the entire thing.
With a homeschool room, there would likely (hopefully) be space to spread out a current project and leave it intact until it is completed. I won’t have to worry about clearing the dining room table for lunch or dinner. We can leave all current work where it is without interrupting a thing.
Decorating!
Oh how I want to decorate a homeschool room! I think it’s so much fun to put colorful pictures on the walls and hang the kids artwork, and hang up motivational quotes, and all the fun ways I can decorate. I do have a few things in the kids’ rooms on the walls, but it’s not always practical to decorate the walls in their rooms. By the way, if you are looking for some inspiration for decorating your homeschool room, check out this post, and this post.
I absolutely adore decorating. While it may be convenient to have the kids’ homeschool as part of their rooms sometimes, it also puts a damper on my ability to decorate their rooms the way I’d like. I have to take into account the large wall maps for geography, and the big white board on my boys’ wall. It would be nice to have a dedicated room to hang those things so I could decorate their rooms the way I really want to.
Display Space
I’m really good about only keeping a few of the kids’ art projects. And those few that I do keep, it would be nice to have a place to display them permanently, or at least until I am ready to take them down. A homeschool room can provide that.
I’m sure there are so many reasons homeschool families love their homeschool rooms. In the comments, leave your top reasons that you love yours.
This post contributed by Jennifer from Organized Home Organized School