Our 2014 Learning Zone

It's a new year so I thought we would change thing up a little, or maybe a lot and rearranged our house to make it work better for us.  While there may not be a lot of lounge type space for visitors, we have heaps of space set up for the kids to do their work and play in.  But we live in our home every day and I rather have it set up for us and not for visitors who may or may not come and don't live here all the time.

 

We have a calendar which I've gotten so slack at doing every day with the kids, but will hopefully get into a better routine now that Ladybug has started back at Montessori (today was her first day back) and all our extra curriculum start back next week.
We named the room our Learning Zone as I'm trying to move away from the word 'School' as we do not do 'School' here at home, and I rather focus on the word 'Learning' 

Also on our wall is our alphabet tree, this is for Ladybug and each week when she completes a letter in the LOTW curriculum we add the letter to the tree. 

I picked up this table from the habitat for humanity for only $10, it's the perfect size for us all to sit at.  It's near our computer desks, so I can just wheel over and work one on one with the kids.  

Adding the Lego Art Carousel to the middle of the table also made the table more appealing to both Rocket Boy and Ladybug. 

I found this cupboard at the salvation army which is the hub of our room, the 6 trays on the left are Rocket Boys and the 6 on the right are Ladybugs.  The blue drawer are filled with Jellybeans toys, the area in front of the cupboards are clear so Jellybean has the floor to play on or the older two can do their work on the floor if they wish to. 

Currently our frogs which we will be releasing soon are also on this shelve, but the plans are to add some Montessori inspired trays which are also safe for Jellybean and maybe some of our bigger toys which I can change up every week.