an introduction to our simple homeschool room

Our simple homeschool room is butter yellow with a great big red industrial light smack dab in the middle of the room. There’s a desk on the side for moi and a slide-out drawer for the oft-used printer (love love love having the printer beside me).

Can we say…

• Latin pop quizzes?
• Online printables?
• And the stuff I print during morning studies cause I forgot yesterday?

Our simple homeschool room has a gigantic doored closet with cupboards with science encyclopedias, a microscope, history books, math manipulatives, crafting material, and language resources that I have collected in my eleven-year-old library.

I have many books, despite purging many at every move. There’s an electrical plug at the bottom of this cupboard where a pencil sharpener and CD player are ready to go. 

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This simple homeschool room has butter yellow and isn’t just brightening the walls, because the morning to afternoon sun is beaming through the windows. In the splash of morning sunlight, I feel energized to get going. One of my girl’s friends says that yellow stimulates brainpower, so I’ll take it.

It’s a warm alternative to the rest of the house. And it’s pretty clear on entering our home that I prefer the colour blue.

Blue is the fluidity of water. Blue is calm, cool, easy. Most importantly, blue is borrowed from the impressionist watercolour: Monet. 

That would be why I’ve named our home Giverny of the Mountains.

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One window faces northeast, providing morning sun and a view of the natural pond only a half dozen feet from the house.

My desk window faces southwest, framing the front verandah where Violet, the Great Pyrenes naps — at the end of the verandah, the walk down to the river, the neighbouring island.

There’s a view of our fenced vegetable garden with busy birdfeeders –squirrels, flitting black-capped chickadees, and Northern flicker competing for sunflower seeds, while the hens peck at the base.

The south-facing windows open to the driveway, the towering coniferous Kootenay mountains, and most of the day’s sun.

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Our simple homeschool room has three wood bookshelves that house our favourite storybooks:

• books we’ve read
• books we want to read
• or books we want to pass down to the next sibling
• the abridged and non-abridged versions of anything Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Charles Dickens
• the series of The Littles
• a Little House on the Prairie series
• the Anne of Green Gables series
• a Canadian Girl series
• the Bridge to Terabithia
• an Artemis Fowl series
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before collection
• The Kite Runner book
• Number the Stars book
• and two versions of Swiss Family Robinson, the unabridged and abridged versions

But do you even need a simple homeschool room? I answer that question here.

Because here’s the truth about the homeschool room.

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It’s nine o’clock! Time to start studies…

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