Setting up your classroom (or workspace) for teaching your children is vital in ensuring that your homeschool efforts and goals are achieved. Your classroom can be anything from a spare bedroom to the kitchen table to a separate building on your property. When you are using a living space that has a dual purpose, such as the dining room, it can be difficult to set that space up as solely a classroom.That is one of the problems we ran into since we use a combination of he living room and dining room.

My solution was a simple one. One wall in our dining room serves as a sort of visual board. I use it to display the kids artwork and to put up maps, etc that I may need for the lessons that week. So this space is constantly changing and evolving. To make it more pleasant looking, especially when we have company, the “board space” is actually a large hutch. In the top part where the doors are, my husband took the doors out and attached cork board. I have a flat surface for books, etc and shelving underneath to store materials.

In the living room I made no changes because we use the TV area the most. I can hook up my iPad and our TV becomes a chalkboard. The biggest thing we did was give me an office space so I could grade papers , plan lessons, etc. This space has allowed me to focus on my teaching as well as my work.

Take the time to plan your space and set it up the way YOU want it.