 Hi you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I'm going to show you my new home school area for the 2021-2022 school year. But first I have to show you how my home school area looked last year. This was my first setup that I did for my daughter Brielle and while it was cute it wasn't functional for me and for our season. So what I did was I decided to remove the desk and add in this bookshelf. Just because we do spend a lot of our time home schooling at the dining room table. I thought that my daughter would like working at a desk but she told me she did and she liked to sit next to me and be with her sisters at the table. So that is where we're going to be doing school at. So I needed a place to house all of our books and all of our things. So what I did was I decided to take my bookshelf that I had in my office and bring it downstairs in my main living area. I decided to bring down our tried and true cork board and just get this home school area set up and ready to go. Okay as you guys have seen I do have a little bit of cleaning to do. If any of you guys are new here to my channel again my name is Brittany. I have a nine three and a one year old. So not only do I home school my fourth grader I do have two very young toddlers that I have to entertain in the midst of schooling. So I make sure that I have like toys and things set out here for the girls. I do do like a simple toy rotation for them just because they were dumping toys and it just was driving me and my husband crazy just the amount of time we were spending cleaning up toys but once I added in a toy rotation it just worked out perfectly for our family. So the first thing I wanted to go ahead and do was just to remove their art and their paintings that they did over the summer on these little cork books that I have by my refrigerator and you guys I always like to store away all of their art and their drawings. So this right here you guys is actually my library collection. I have collected these books over the course of a whole year. So don't feel like you have to go out and get all of the books all at once. This is a year's worth of me being on a really tight budget just buying one book at a time. So this first stack right here you guys is my reference books. Then I have this small stack of picture books. Some of these are already had but I just add it to them. Right here is a stack of all of my Africa books for our amazing Africa Heritage Pack that I'm so excited to continue to dive in. As you guys are watching is we actually finished our first week of school and that Africa Pack you guys has been amazing. Here is like all of my picture books my Dr. Seuss books. These are actually old books that I saved from Brielle and I cannot wait to start reading these with Leia my three year old. Here goes my little poetry section that I have you guys of all of the poetry books that I've been collecting for our poetry tea time. I have a few little science books not too many science picture books but I have a few in this pile. I have some history books. I have a lot of history books you guys just because we're going to be starting American history after we finish our amazing Africa Heritage Pack. So I just been collecting different readers. I've been collecting things from the Who Was series just to get us prepared to do our American history once we finish our Africa unit study. Now these are all of my chapter books that I have you guys for us to do like our read allows. Some of them I will allow Brie to just read independently but for the most part these are books that we're going to be reading together as a family. I don't have too many chapter books but I feel like my collection is getting pretty big. A lot of the chapter books I do have were actually free so I was really blessed when it came to that and here goes some of the board books that I do have for my one and my three year old. I've been collecting board books for them over the past year as well and yeah you guys it feels so surreal that I'm going into my second year of homeschooling and I'm not gonna lie I feel like I know some things I feel like I'm excited and I'm pumped and I'm like okay I know what I'm doing and then it's like other days I'm like okay I really don't know what I'm doing and I feel like I continuously go on an up and down roller coaster when it comes to homeschooling and my confidence but this year you guys that is one thing I really want to focus on it's just building my confidence as a homeschooling mom and knowing that I will make mistakes and I may mess up I may say the wrong things but at the end of the day that I do have my children's best interests at heart and I believe that honestly that's all that matters and I know God he's gonna come in and he's gonna fill in those gaps for me. I just have to believe in him and know that he's going to work through me through this school year so if any of you guys are feeling like me still feeling like a little bit nervous still feeling like you need a little bit more confidence just know you're not the only one um I'm I still don't have it all figured out it looks like I do in these videos but I don't and just know that I'm here with you guys and we can do this we're gonna have awesome school years and we're really gonna make this. Okay for any of you toddler moms out here I just want to show you my little secret this is where I keep the rest of my board books just because I still don't trust my little toddlers they have busy hands and they will knock all the books over so I only keep a few out on the bookshelf this is where I keep all the other toys for their toy rotation and this is just mommy's little secret and I just keep it closed so now I'm going ahead and putting down um Brielle and Leia's latchmates at the bottom of this uh bookcase I feel like this is a perfect spot for it just because Brielle can come in and grab her things I know Leia's latchmate is a little bit too heavy for her but I can go ahead and carry it and take it to the dining room table and you guys this organization organization system for like their curriculum and supplies has been amazing okay you guys now is the fun part this is the time that I get to bring this little homeschool area space alive and what I'm going to go ahead and do is add all of our Africa themed items to put on our main bookshelf just to have this area be more inviting just to have Brielle be really excited when she sees all of her Africa books and everything like that I know I didn't have to do this but I just wanted to add this area like a little pizzazz so I got this fall garland that I'm going to add to my bookshelf just to make it look a little bit extra special now I do have my morning basket that I'm going to set beside my bookshelf I was going to wait to show you guys it but I'm going to show you everything in it now so I have a long walk to water I have the African alphabet board book for my daughters I have Anna Hibiscus which is another book we're going to be reading this first quarter I have who was Nelson Mandela I have the trumpet of the swan we didn't quite finish this from the summer so we're going to finish this one up in the start of our school year I have Leia's animal flashcards and I found this really awesome Africa flip card a pack that has all of the African countries it has like the main facts on them so as we go through each country in Africa we can use this little flip chart and my daughter has been loving this I also have the ABCs that I use to do phonetics with my daughter Leia I have our character matters cards from september and co I checked out sing a song of seasons book of poetry from my library I've been enjoying it you guys I have some nursery rhymes back here I have my daughter's sabba school lesson I have Nelson Mandela's favorite African folk tales I have mother goose for my two little ones and I also have two main picture books which I believe I can and I am enough from grace buyers and I have this little dry erase pad that helps Leia practice writing her name and then I also have like one letter that she's going to be practicing to help her write her name I also have my daughter's sabba school lesson which is a little bit older than the baby one and this is more age appropriate for her you guys I'm so happy with how our homeschool area turned out I'm so happy that my daughter's seeing this homeschool area it just really got her excited about school when I filmed this video I actually filmed this video a day before our school started and she was just ready to go she was exploring all of her items and all of her things and it just really made me excited and pumped and ready to start our homeschooling year one thing I have learned especially from all the homeschool books I've read this summer is that I have to set the table for my daughter I have to set the table for learning and just step back and watch it happen so I hope all of you guys enjoyed today's video I hope all of you guys will have an awesome and amazing school year I look forward to seeing everyone in my next one bye