A Little Rebellion Every Now & Then

We’ll start downstairs:

This is the closet in the sunroom, also known as Daisy’s room (Daisy is the cat). Games are stored here (1), as well as…

(2) La Clase Divertida.

Moving opposite it, we come to:

the former location of a lot of stuff. Three was the location for all our current stuff (not to mention my API crap); four still has some books ‘n’ things.

Five is my homeschooling/education books shelf. There are a couple missing at present (Revised WTM; Climbing Parnassus).

Now we go upstairs!

06 - My mom’s sewing machine (which I haven’t yet used; we’ve had it for two years), with the rest of my crafty stuff. Mostly yarn and knitting needles. The school area is one corner of my ‘office;’ the upstairs is a finished attic. The stairs come out into an open room (office), then there is a side room (Sam’s office) and a big side room (playroom).
07 - Gillian, doing math in her pajamas.
08 - The very cool $6 light from IKEA.
09 - The very cool $30 desk from IKEA.
10 - Storage area. See more detail below.

11 - Small shelf intended to sit on the floor; now it holds our current read-alouds and current chapter book.
12 - The very cool $30 drawer storage unit from IKEA. (I love IKEA, can you tell?) The top drawer is pencils, pens, colored pencils, beeswax crayons, modeling beeswax, a few flashcards, blank index cards, cuisenaire rods, and a rod track. The middle drawer is workbooks: spelling, mathematics, and handwriting, plus handwriting paper. The bottom drawer holds our phonics book, First Language Lessons, and an accordion file that I use for storing any loose papers, as well as our weekly assignments chart.
13 - My pile o’ crap, otherwise known as ’stuff I need for LLL and ALACE.’
14 - Gillian’s favourite stuffed animal, the rabbit known as “Jill.”

15 - Jacob, or one who makes it difficult to get work done at times.

The all homeschool (sort of), all the time bookcase.
16 - Current year resources. Teachers’ manuals, science reference books, schedules, cassette tapes, slate from HWT.
17 - Stuff for next year and a few more planning-type things.
18 - Girl Scout stuff. My old stuff, mainly, but some stuff for my troop too.
19 - More references. Homeschooling ‘how-tos,’ good buys on future history and science reference, and my old dictionary and writing manuals.
20 - Pile of books from my grandmother. Includes several books from turn-of-the-century schools. Er. Turn of the last century.
21 - Books either from Powells or McKay’s. I love used bookstores. Why, yes, that is a Saxon Algebra 1/2, 2nd edition. It was $5. I could resell it for more than that.

Now, onto the storage shelves in Sam’s office.

22 - Science and history books for future use, most of which were acculumated for $2-6 each at McKay’s, or I already owned them from my childhood. Arranged by four-year cycle, history and science alternating. I have more for next year, obviously.
23 - Collections of myths and legends, for the most part - fables, fairy tales, my old Golden’s Children’s Bible, a book on Greek and Roman mythology, plus some other random books. Also the manipulatives for Building Thinking Skills Primary.
24 - Random resources I accumulated for Gillian’s preschool years that we didn’t use. I’m keeping them until Jacob’s five, just in case I need things to keep him occupied.

An overview of the work area, complete now with both Globe and Cat.