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For those of you who organize your books by year, do you allow your kids to read books from the other years in their free time?
I have ours set aside. I would be fine with them reading books that will be below their level on our next run through that guide, but I want to keep family books or the ones for their level tucked away. My DC are the type that would complain if they had to re-read it (unless several years had passed). I have many of the literature selections on a high bookshelf as well.
missceegee and Holly-
Do either of you do color coding with colored dots – if so, where do you get the colored dot stickers? I have only seen large ones. Is there some place that sells small ones.
Thanks for your input.
For color dots, you can use any mailing labels, color them with permanent marker, and then use a regular hole punch to punch out smaller colored dots.
I have white labels with Y1, Y2, Y3, etc. written on them. I use mailing labels cut to smaller sizes. I also pencil in the year on the inside in case I lose a label. It’s also labeled in my bookpedia.
We have a great mom in our fine arts co-op that has a homeschool library that she has filed in the Dewey Decimal System! She’s got TONS of books, games, DVD’s, educational toys, even a homemade planetarium! She’s amazing! In the past (and hopefully again in the near future), she would bring selected items each week to co-op and the kids could check out books. She would have a learning table set up with a theme, too.
Sorry, I digress! For us, I do keep new titles put away also. Bit harder to keep things away from my little guy. I ordered MFW, kindergarten, and when the box came he couldn’t help but play with the ant farm!
I use these on some of our books. They are large enough for me to write on, so I can narrow them down into more than 4 groups. I sometimes add a piece of scotch tape over the top if they aren’t sticking well. http://www.amazon.com/Avery-Rectangular-Assorted-Removable-06721/dp/B004INKH08/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369744788&sr=8-1&keywords=color+coded+stickers+rectangle
I just came across these…they look nice as well: http://www.amazon.com/Teacher-Created-Resources-Colorful-Stickers/dp/B002EJ6P40/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369744776&sr=8-1&keywords=color+coded+stickers
I haven’t added stickers in awhile…many of my books are just sorted on the shelves. I usually resort them a few times a year (as they don’t always get put away in the right spot). We have “free reading shelves” upstairs and school shelves downstairs. I keep books we will be reading in the next year or two downstairs as well as reference books. I have a shelf of history and history readers upstairs, but they don’t usually read those on their own. They prefer picture books or literature books for their own time.
I used colored cardstock and a hole punch, then taped the dots to the spines. I have a couple different sized circular hole punches from my scrapbooking days. Library supply companies usually sell colored tape and stickers, here’s link to Demco. (Look up “colored circular labels” if my link doesn’t take you there.) I used cardstock because I had it on hand.
@missceegee do you use the same Y1, Y2 labels in bookpedia too? Or do you have them catagorized differently?
I use many tags in Bookpedia. Y1, etc., but also History – World, Egypt, … I use the Location field for the location. 😉 Y1 shelf, science shelf, etc. more intuitive than Dewey for me. I have about 5000 volumes at present.
Such great responses! Wonderful resources.
missceegee- what is Bookpedia?
ack – but only for mac it seems. 🙁 I have an ipod but the app for the ipod only seems to work if you have the regular version.
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