Photo Perspective

This morning I cleared the school/office desk off in preparation for our day and thought, "I'd better get a picture while it looks so neat." We are thankful for the large desk we were given and can easily fit several of us around it. It fits just perfectly in the space next to the stairway in the basement. We have not completed the finishing of the basement yet, so we just try to ignore the insulation between the floor joists above us. Someday, Lord willing, it will be finished. :-)


If you look closely you can see our blue timeline on the wall. We are using the CD from Homeschool in the Woods that has various versions of hundreds of timeline figures and events. We are still working on the beginning of World History, so our line isn't very long yet. The kids will color a timeline figure while listening to their history story, Bible lessons, or other literature. I'll color a miniature figure printed on Post-it paper, and stick it up in its place on our time line. I'm hoping the kids will get a better feel for the big-picture of history this way.

On the right side of our homeschooling space, you'll see a map hanging on the wall. The flip side of the map has a zoomed in map of the U.S.A. The whole thing is laminated so that we can use white-board markers to indicate locations of what we are studying in history or reading in our literature.