A couple of months ago, I made the decision to move tot school upstairs after it became apparent that we would no longer need a nursery and Henry had moved to his Montessori toddler bedroom. Since then, the move has become permanent and I've slowly been working on creating a Montessori inspired home school classroom for our tot school activities.
The room itself is pretty simple. It's broken into two main areas -- the weekly activities and the more traditional Montessori activities.
The weekly activities are the ones that are highlighted in my weekly tot school posts, and the shelf is in the center of the room. The main trays are located on top of the shelf and the extra activities are on the bottom shelves. The shelf itself is an Expedit shelf from Ikea that I found at Goodwill for $10!
To the left of the shelf is a gallery wall. The wall is made from a couple Dr. Seuss prints that used to be in Henry's old old nursery, a couple of paintings I made, some empty frames, and some Washi tape frames. With the extra frames, I can easily rotate Henry's artwork in and out. This wall also features the felt board. Below the felt board is the a basket containing the the felt movable alphabet.
Another basket contains floor mats that Henry and the other children in our co-op can use.
To the left of the room, are the more traditional Montessori activities. Since I don't have a ton of these activities, I will only rotate these out every couple of months. Slowly, I hope to be able to purchase or more of these work, but we will make do with what we have for now. Above these activities is a large alphabet set I made. Below the activities are my storage bins, where I keep many of my supplies -- these shelves are from the Trofast line at Ikea.
Eventually, I hope to make a small area for books, and an area to create art. But, the room is only so big, so for now, I'm going to see how this works out before adding anything else.
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