Isn't this appropriate?

Many of you know how I spent time and energy making our small bedroom into a school room. You know how proud I am of our little school room.

Here's what happened though. During our Christmas break from all things 3R, the little school room became a storage area for the stuff that accumulated during the frenzy of the holidays.I bought a desk apprentice and stuck it in there (unopened ) and books from PBS were tossed in from the door only to land haphazardly on my teacher's counter.Christmas crafts and paints were kind of shoved in and stacked up.In short the school room is a bit of a mess.

So, I trudged in a couple weeks ago to retrieve the desk apprentice and pick through the piles gathering some books so we could get back on track.I took the fully loaded desk apprentice into the kitchen and since then, we have been doing our school work at the kitchen table.

Would you believe I have had more cooperation, more meaningful discussion, more creative writing, more interest in reading, more of eVeRyThInG good since we started schooling back at the kitchen table?Our table is a 100+ year old round oak table. My little acorns just do so much better when they're near the oak tree. There has to be a lesson somewhere in this.