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HOMESCHOOL ROOM TOUR 2022 & MONTESSORI AT HOME SETUP: Books, Activities, Cleaning & Organization
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Jan 31, 2025
Looking for some inspiration on how to setup a Homeschool or Montessori Room in a small space, without breaking the bank? This video will provide some motivation and ideas, as well as, some books and Montessori Learning Activities that you and your toddler may love and enjoy having on your shelf! How to Set Up a Homeschool Classroom in Small Spaces: https://themomresource.com/how-to-set-up-a-homeschool-classroom-in-small-spaces-easy-practical-tips/ Homeschooling in a Small Space: 7 Unique Tips, PLUS 5 Homeschool Room Ideas!: https://themomresource.com/homeschooling-in-a-small-space/ Websites https://themomresource.com/ https://motherhoodandhomemaking.com/ Social Media https://instagram.com/motherhoodanhomemaking
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hey guys welcome to my Vlog my name is heaven I am a stay-at-home mom and a
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wife I have a three-year-old toddler boy named Noah J and here on my Vlog I Vlog about all things motherhood and
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my today's video is all about setting up and reorganizing our home school at
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space so I kind of have just been doing what I can with what I have and then
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slowly adding in new things and organizing it until we get it perfect the way that we love it so a few things
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that I need to do today is put up a shelf to put our projector up on so that
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it's up and out of the way and then I also need to put together the Montessori
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shelf I also purchased him a little chair that he can sit in to read in to
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watch his learning videos and I plan to put out a few new puzzles for him on the Montessori shelf so I'm going to take
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you guys along with me and try and get this done and hopefully once done we're
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gonna have a really comfortable homeschool space that Noah is going to love even more than he already loves it
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now I don't have everything together that I want to put in this Homeschool Room but the more that I put things
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together and rearrange things I kind of see what more we need what more we want what type of Decor I want to use so
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today I'm just trying to get like all of the furniture kind of you know set up and arranged and then once that's done I
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can focus more on like the decor all right so I'm gonna show you all what the room is looking like now just bear with
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me it's a mess in here so this corner is a mess we have like a little shelf over here that I actually use to keep my
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things in over here and then I just purchased this little chair for him to sit in and read his books or watch his
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learning videos here we just have like a bunch of crap that we use for school like we have like
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shapes and puzzles and Montessori things and it's just been a big mess here we
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have his little desk and as you can see like we have our workbooks just that we've been using every day sitting like
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up against the desk he's been coloring on his desk and he just finished playing like with his glue and this construction
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sheet doing like some arts and crafts over here but I have to try and get all of the writing off of his table he has
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like some little arts and crafts back there on the floor that he did in Sunday school and then here we have some books
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that we've been kind of reading through and going through but I need to switch those books out as well because we're
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not still using all of those here is my little area so I've got like my books I
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have like my Cosmetics bag my wax system like my little vanity mirror and then
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I've got this little Disney gift box that CJ bought me before we went to
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Disney World two weeks ago and then a bunch of new homeschool resources and
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books and puzzles and things that I literally just purchased and that just came in the mail this week and then I
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also have my desk over here the projector is sitting on my desk we had it on like a little table but my goal is
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to mount it up to the top of the wall and then I have to clean my desk up push it back into the corner a little bit and
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then I think I want to move all of this stuff and maybe put it over here on this wall I'm just not quite sure yet so I'm
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going to be working my way through that here are some soft play wedges that Noah normally likes to kind of just sit on so
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that is why I got him this little chair over here to sit on instead of those little wedges they do come in handy
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sometimes but I feel like they're taking up a lot of space and just like a little comfy chair might be better and then I'm
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gonna put this little 6 Q tube organizer together and then I'm gonna put six
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different Montessori activities in those Cubbies for us to use throughout like
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the days or the weeks and rotate those as we get through them so I have my work
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cut out for me obviously I need to clean up in here and then once I clean up and
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make a little space for myself I can go ahead and begin putting that together and then once I put that together I can
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mount the projector screen to the wall as well that is what it's looking like right now on this channel I'm very
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transparent if the room is looking a mess it's looking a mess or all human mess happens especially in a room where
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you spend a lot of time at least we spend time in this room like learning
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and things like that so um I'm just gonna go ahead and clean it up straighten it up a little bit and
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then start putting some things together and see how this goes
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so all I did was just like remove a lot of the junk and clutter that was over here I didn't do much with this shelf
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yet because I'm gonna put this clock up on the wall this is more learning resources all of his books and things so
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once I get all of the furniture set up I don't know what I want to do with that same with this shelf I have to go
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through all the puzzles and figure out which ones I'm going to display on the Montessori shelf and which ones I'm not
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going to display and then once I figure that out I can tidy that up but I did get like all of the writing the marker
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and the stains off of the wooden table I just use one of those magic eraser sponges and a little bit of Method
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Cleaner and it came right up so now I'm just showing you guys the room a little bit tidier
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the before what it's looking like okay
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do it so that took us no time at all we're done putting together this little
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cube shelf so now we're just gonna have to take all of these stickers off of there as you can see it's like the
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perfect height for a new one I thought I was going to have to lay it down to where the shelves are horizontal instead
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of vertical so that he can reach everything but to save more space I
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prefer to do it vertically so I'm glad that I can do it vertically and he can
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still you know reach everything as you can see but it took us no time it was the easiest thing ever to put together
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the quality is okay I don't think it's like very long term but for now I think
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it's going to serve its purpose especially for a small space and this
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shelf only another one maybe you actually can stack
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these so simple enough we will see how it holds up so just for the purpose of
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showing you guys like what a quick little small homeschooler Montessori setup can look like I just went ahead
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and put some of the puzzles that we've been using on the Shelf so you can get a few for kind of wood it will look like
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and then like the books that we've been using as well so basically your toddler will go over on the shelf and they'll
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see all the things and then they will just pick out the one that they want to work on that day so as
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you can see that's pretty much how the montessor learning goes and then if you need to help I'll chime in and help otherwise he
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can reach everything and then he can pick out the one that he wants to play with that day or at that moment and then
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you teach them how to put everything back to where they belong the only thing
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about placing this here is if you can see right over Noah's head right there there is an outlet right there so I have
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to go into the pantry and get some outlet covers and cover those up and then I may like it here but for now just
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for the purpose of like giving you guys like an example of how like a small little small space setup would look like
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this is what it is so we have our Melissa and Doug table and chair set and
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then we have this 35 cube organizer from Walmart and then we also got the small little bookshelf
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which you can also reach from Amazon so with Montessori the purpose is that they
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can reach everything they can get to everything right that is a nine they can get to
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everything they can reach everything it's pretty tidy it's organized and it teaches them how to be self-sufficient
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how to stay organized but they can also you know interact with and learn different things so
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um that is what we've been doing this is the shelf that I moved so once I figure
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out where I'm gonna put that shelf then I'll put like his workbooks his arts and
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crafts trays and things like that back on here so like all of this wooden material all of these puzzles and things
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these are things that don't go to the shelves that this shelf goes with like little bins for like arts and crafts and
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things like that and I think I'm going to move that shelf and put it over here on this wall or move that little printer
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table and put it on the side here and just scoop that over but the goal is to
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try to have all of my things over here to this side of the room and then I want
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to have his things here across this wall so I want this whole wall to be his so
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if I can move that that'll free up space here on this wall so that is my dilemma
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I'm gonna figure some things out but before I do that I'm gonna just go ahead and get the projector put up there on
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that wall thank you
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over there did not work the shelf that I bought it was super cheap I couldn't put
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that shelf up there so I took it down and I'm going to return it and get a new one but until then I went ahead and
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moved the bookshelf to this wall since I was considering doing it anyway and then
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I turned it on to just make sure that I had it like leveled with the projector
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screen over here so that's what we're doing for now and then I ended up moving
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the Shelf with all the bins back to this corner um I don't quite like it there because
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it's like right in front of the closet which is actually a storage closet like I don't use it a lot but then I put all
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of the stuff that was on there over here so that I can sort through it and organize that a little bit better and
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then I put um the bookshelf over here in this
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corner and then I'll keep the beanbag chair right there in that corner I plan
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to get like a circle time rug put it right here in the middle of the floor so
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we can have Circle time and read books on the little rug right there on the floor or
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if he wants to pull his beanbag chair out of the corner and then put it like
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on the rug he can do that thing that I'm trying to decide now is if I'm gonna move that little printer table
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you got a lollipop today okay you can have one sweetie but I'm trying
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to decide if I'm gonna move that printer table out completely
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um so that this space can be a little more cleared out and we can have like the bean bag chair over there put a
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little outlet covers up I haven't decided yet but if I do then I'll end up
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having to make space on the desk or maybe like on like the second shelf on
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this like I don't know I still have a few things to figure out so that's what
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I was saying earlier when I was saying like you know you put some things up and then you figure out what works what don't work what you wouldn't change so
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that's where I am now but right now I'm about to go ahead and finish like cleaning up a little bit get some things
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moved out of here and then show you all what it's looking like after I'm done okay okay so I went ahead and organized
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and cleared some things out I still have to do one more shelf but right now I've
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just been sorting through the things that I want to put on his bookshelf and his Montessori shelf so I'm trying to
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get all of that stuff set up now and I'm just going to show you guys some of the books that we're going to be putting on
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his shelf um for the upcoming homeschool week so I laid them out here because
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this little Shelf has like five rows so I'm going to put out like five like
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different types of books so here we have like his reading books and this is from
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a subscription Hooked on Phonics that CJ has signed him up for and then here I
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like his science books so it has like baby animals landforms and weather and
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then this one is just like all living things and we just bought that book and
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then we have solar system books for a solar system unit that we're going to be
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doing this school year so I have like two solar system books for us to read through this one is also brand new and
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then here we have dinosaur books for the dinosaur unit that we're going to be
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doing this school year we have this one here and then this one is also
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brand new and then we also have our Circle time
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books this one is for like a younger student or child Noah is three years old
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but because we're going to be doing some phonics some spelling some reading some
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pronunciation and things like that I think this would be like good to kind of like do a lesson on Words and letter
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sounds and sounding Out words and then like kind of turn to and let him like
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say the sound that each of the object makes and hear like what they begin with
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what they end with and things like that so this one goes all the way from A to Z so I took that one back out
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this is peekaboo morning this is one that he can kind of read all by himself or read it to me and so it's a very
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simple book and um it just sounds like peekaboo I see and then like he can kind of look at the
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pictures and look at the word and know like how to read that so that's something he can read to himself to get
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him into the habit of reading this one is brand new the world is awake another one for Circle time that talks about
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like enjoying and celebrating life's Every Day blessings and the things
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around us this one has got dreams that teaches us about like how to share how
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to care like how to be nice it teaches us like how like to apologize to people
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and so like that's a good one for Circle time this one is we're different we're the same about you know how to kind of
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just um appreciate and love everyone around you no matter where they come from all
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different walks of life in all different types of backgrounds and then this one is baby boy what will you be that
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sparked a little bit of curiosity about like all the things that he can be when he grows up so these are not necessarily
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like learning books these are just books that we can sit down and read and talk about and enjoy during Circle time like
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during the morning or like during the end of a lesson or like you know
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whenever and so again these are unit books that teaches him about the solar
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system about the dinosaurs and these ones are phonic books that has like
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lessons teaching him how to read these are pre-readers one and two and then three and four so he would go through
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this book and then these go along with the books so it's like two per lesson so
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this is one and two and then this is workbook for pre-rooters three and four so that's when we'll begin like
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incorporating like learning to read and then again these are science books that
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teaches him about like baby animals um weather and landforms and about
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living things on earth so all unit books basically and then Story Time Books
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these are all of the books that were taking off of the shelves that we exchanged some of them out and then of
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course we have like our Bible reader that we can read like a Bible Lesson from once per week and talk about it and
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revisit it every single day we can focus in on it more on Sundays like after Sunday school and then if we get to a
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lesson in our curriculum that talks about any of these stories from the Bible then we can also use this book to
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talk about it further or deeper so this is just my first read and learn Bible
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that is what I'm going to do now is put those up on the shelf and then I'll go and show you guys what's on the Montessori shelf and what's in the bands
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and then we'll almost be done here okay
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so that's what it looks like I put all of the science books on here all of the
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hooked on findings books here I put the unit books here and then the Bible Story Reader here and then up here I put the
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circle time books so I put that little shelf right over here next to his little
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chair where he can sit down and read it or I can sit down and read with him
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zip over the rim of the Hill he slipped up in the air he flew
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and then went tumbling down the steep slope Hugo couldn't regain his footing
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and head over Paws he went toppling all the way to the bottom of the hill where
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her Puff he plunged into a deep soft snow drift this is the Finish look of
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what I have done today so because I couldn't get the projector
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to mount up to the wall I went ahead and moved the shelf that was over there over
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here to the left side of the bookshelf and I was able to set the projector up on top of there to where it aligned
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perfectly adjacent from the projector screen and my plan is to get more of
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these little like book holders so that I can organize my books under here a
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little bit better and then up here as you can see I'm kind of just using them for those curriculum and workbooks so
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I'm gonna get like a few more of these and line them like across the shelves to keep this a lot more tidy I moved the
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printer table from the right side of the desk and I removed the bar that was up under here and put it under here so now
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the printer and the vinyl cutter are both up under the left side of the desk
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which I use for for like writing note taking and things like that and then I
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use this green if I'm like doing any like reading on the screen or any note taking and studying that is what I use
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this green for that corner over there is my vlogging corner I have like my mic set up or my gimbal right there on that
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corner as you can see that's also where I have my life set up I'm gonna have another monitor over here which is what
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I use for like all of my like web searching my browsing all of like the
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things that I do on the computer so I just have my speaker in my Google home there we've had this computer chair since I was at the old house but I think
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I want a new one so I'm gonna get a brand new computer chair but I need to just dust everything down and get some
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organization going over here with the books and some cable management this is what I need to work on next so I'm going
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to remove this vanity mirror and put it in the bedroom with a vanity desk and
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like a little vanity store and then I'm just going to figure out what I want to
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do with this cabinet right now I keep products up there in the top cabinet and I just keep my purses or basically
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whatever up top there I use that closet just for storage purposes things that I don't use regularly went ahead and
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organized the Montessori shelf as well as like the activity bands and I put
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some books that we're going to be using for the upcoming homeschool week over here in this little bookshelf with his
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little bean bag chair that's the perfect size for him so that is what it's looking like I also put this little walk
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like up here on the wall the color just went well with the beanbag chair and the carpeting so over in this area it's kind
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of where I have it I think I'm going to put like some affirmations over here on this wall and then I'm gonna get like an
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alphabet canvas but let me show you what I have here on the Montessori shelf and
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then what I did with the activity bands so here I have
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his like cutting activity so like his safety scissors and then all of these
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little like object cards so he can practice his cutting skills I have all of his like washable crayons and things
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like that that we use on a daily basis here under here I have all of the flash cards that we use often more flash cards
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that I printed and laminated here I have um an empty bin that I'm going to use so
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this is an empty bin and then this is an empty bin so here I am going to put in
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things that we're going to be using for his dinosaur unit so just a bunch of different little small dinosaurs that's
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what I'm going to be putting here um and then I have two other empty bands
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that I can work with here I have all of his sight word Reader books as well as
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his sight word and phonics workbook there and then these are all of the
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Montessori activities that I took off of the shelf and I just stored them in these bags I can easily get to them and
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then up under here I also see like a handwriting book some coloring
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books and then there's a folder under there that has like construction paper
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and another folder that has all of the like activities that he's already done so on here I have these little pattern
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shape sorters so basically like you'll be given an object with a pattern on it
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and he just have to place these little blacks on the board
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to make the object so I put that on top because it didn't fit in the Cubbies
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this box has extra like pencils erasers glue sticks crayons and things like that
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so I just set that on top of there with this fake little sunflower so I'll actually end up putting up here like
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plants that he can take care of himself and then I'll have a cubby for like the things that he needs to take care of the
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plants like a watering can and the towel to clean up any mess that he makes but in here I put like his rocks that he can
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use to stack on top of each other this one is new so he hasn't even played with these yet so I put them on the top this
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one is new as well and that's for him to practice his word spellings I put that on top this here is to practice his
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letter sound so basically he would basically find like apple and then he'll find the letter that it starts with and
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then he'll put them together and then I also like to ask him like what the sound
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of the letters are here is just some more lacing boards so this keep him
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pretty busy for quite some time so I put all of his lacing Boards out on the Shelf this one also keeps him pretty
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busy for a while he hasn't played with it too much but basically he goes through and he finds like the car with
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the shape on it he tells me like what that shape is and then he goes and actually find like the block for the
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piece that goes in there and then last I have this wooden jigsaw puzzle set so
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it's just four different puzzles and it has vehicles in here it has a school bus a train a race car and a fire truck and
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it's just 12 pieces per puzzle and it's like four different box sections in there
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foreign puzzles that he can work on so that is
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what I have on the Montessori shelf for this week but besides that I think I'm
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going to be done in this room for now so it's gotten pretty late in the day so I need to go sit down and prepare dinner
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for Noah and I bathe ham and clean up the rest of my home and get the rest of
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my Affairs together but I am happy that I was able to organize our Homeschool Room a bit more and prepare for the
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upcoming homeschool week and upcoming homeschooling season I also did a vlog
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video on like some of the newer resources that we've added to our school room and like books and puzzles and
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activities and things like that so I'll be sure to link those in the description box below but besides that that's all I
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have for you guys today I hope that you guys found this video helpful maybe if you have like a small space and you're
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trying to figure out like how you can set it up to do like a Homeschool Room or a Montessori room but you're like
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tight on space or tight on money I hope that this video can maybe give you an idea on how you can like set some things
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up or arrange some things to kind of make everything fit together but stay organized and stay tidy figure how you
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can like do this but without spending a whole lot of money the show that I put
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together that shelf was only 35 and then like all the puzzles and activities that
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I buy I buy them like a little at a time and then I rotate them so that he only has a few out per week but it's very
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much possible to do homeschooling in a spa space or a new Montessori in a small space so I will continue to share my
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journey with you guys and I hope that you will find these videos helpful or maybe if not for you you might know
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someone who may find this video helpful but if you did enjoy this video please
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