Mom On A Journey
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I thought I would elaborate a bit on how I arranged the books we use for school. Previously, all of the books were in the family room. We have built-in bookcases on either side of the fireplace with cabinets on the bottom. I kept the daily workboks and things down below in the cabinets. Then, living history books were up on the shelves, along with other types of read-alouds for the kids.
In December, I decided to take all of the kids' books off of the family room bookcases and do something different with them. It just took me a little while to figure out what exactly I DID want to do with them!
Once we got the bookcase for the front room, I put in that all of the books we pull out frequently. I wanted them all in one place, and in the room where the kids did the most of their 'sitting down' work. I had gotten frustrated with having to search in too many different locations to find what we needed each day.
All of the living history books, nature readers, biographies, etc. that had been up on high shelves in the family room out of reach are now easily obtained in my two oldest dds' room. I had kept them up on higher shelves so that they would 'stay nice'. But, there is not much point in having such wonderful books if the kids can't explore them on their own. So I put all of those in the two 3-shelf bookcases that are in the oldest girls' room. Since then, I've discovered my oldest dd9 sitting amidst a small stack of these, grinning from ear to ear as she discovers something 'new'.
So that's what we've done for the time being. I'm sure it will all be changed again somewhere down the line. But, for now, this is working pretty well.
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