How to Set Up Your Household for Homeschooling

Although you are schooling at home, you don't want to live at school. Here's how to set up and maintain a workable home/school balance.

Things You'll Need

  • Textbooks
  • Bookcases
  • Desk Chairs
  • Desks
  • File Cabinets
  • Calendars
  • File Folders
  • Personal Organizers
  • School Supplies
  • Educational Software
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Instructions

    • 1

      Designate certain areas as school space. You will need a bookcase, a file cabinet with hanging files and folders, desk space for seat work, and a larger project area (save all shoeboxes!).

    • 2

      Separate work areas from play areas. Toddlers playing school under the table where you're actually trying to hold school with older children is just too distracting.

    • 3

      Store all school supplies in their own cabinet or other space. Make a rule that they are to be used only for school projects, or you'll find yourself five pipe cleaners short of a dinosaur some afternoon.

    • 4

      Take advantage of other people's space. Think library for research projects, the park for painting, or grandma's house if she has the piano.

    • 5

      Set limits. Not everything and everywhere has to be educational. Give your kids a break and don't post the table of elements chart in the bathroom.

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