Sometimes non-homeschoolers I know ask me about the way we homeschool.  They question the lay-out and the physical aspects of it.  Many picture a school-room type setting, or at least a dedicated work-area.  While there are many homeschoolers that approach things that way it has yet to be the case for us.

First and foremost, we are dining-room-table homeschoolers.  The majority of the work over the years has been conducted there. 

Our second most frequent location is the living room, or family room couch.  Head gear optional.

 

This year we’ve had a new obstacle.  Johanna.  Whenever I would try to do the kids’ language and reading work, she’d try to insinuate herself between the student and I, or between the book and I.  This was a real problem.  Our first solution was for the girls to take her up to their room to play while I worked with Nigel and Stewart, and then have one of the boys play with her while I worked with Marie.  This worked to an extent, however she really got tired of all that time in their rooms and she destroyed their bedroom on a daily basis.  By Thanksgiving it really wasn’t working.

So we started a new plan.  Each morning after Bible, I’d head to my room.  The kids would then rotate through my room while the remaining kids would hang up downstairs with Johanna.  This meant she had a lot more room and variety to play.  The kids and I would do school on my bed, snuggled into the pillows.  I had one friend jokingly share how she envied how I got to lie in bed all day. 

A new problem developed. 

All those hours on my bed were making my tailbone sore.  Yes.  I just admitted that on this blog.  MY BOTTOM HURT.  Now, I didn’t realize what was happening.  Truthfully, it took me a long time to figure it out.  But now that I have found the problem, there was only one solution…

Yes, that is a card table and chairs in my BEDROOM.

My life is so weird.

But the view is exceptional!