Where do I homeschool...

The Heart of the Matter's Meme of the week is "Where do you homeschool?" That is perfect because I have been needing to post pictures of our new "Learning Room" that I discussed in my "Change, Change, Change" post.
So first I will talk about where we homeschool. Before the move into the bigger loft area, we rarely "did school" in the playroom. We would go up there for short periods for learning, and I would let them do a lot of free play up there, but it felt too cramped for me. Most of our learning was done at the kitchen table or snuggled on the sofa.

For the past two weeks, however, the majority of our time has been spent in what I affectionately call "The Learning Room." It has our desktop in there (so fingers pointing all over the screen won't drive me completely nuts, like it does on the laptops!) so we have been doing a lot of online games at pbskids and playhouse disney. It has a mounted tv where we watch out Veggie Tales (see my lovely post, Out of the Mouth of Babes, ha!), educational videos that go along with our units, and our awesome Leap Frog videos (I now have 4!). It has SOME of their books (we have a HUGE library of books spread throughout the entire house), tons of dress up clothes and other pretend play toys, a large collection of musical toys (most of which is hidden in the basket shown below), FOUR different kinds of block sets, math toys, phonics toys, handwriting/drawing toys, balls, bean bags, Mr. Potato heads, coloring books, puzzles, etc, etc, etc; And... my favorite part.... a very very comfortable overstuffed chair and ottoman that I got at a garage sale for $5, WOO HOO!

So, without further adieu, here are pictures from our lovely Learning Room.....

**Please note, I am horrible at hanging pictures --- really really bad at it --- so there is NOTHING on the walls because I am waiting for my wonderful DH to do it. He is almost done with his MBA and with traveling for work, so the walls should be full of our fun learning things in the coming weeks.**