I use stickers, of course I also stole the idea from Sonlight. I purchased garage sale stickers from Wal Mart then:
- sorted my books out according to the years listed on the modules (had to look up a lot of them), put the year it represented and the grade level on the sticker and then put the sticker on the spine.
- I then grouped the books on my bookshelf according to the modules. I ran out of sticker choices so, Ancient Egypt is a yellow sticker with a large dot above the year, Ancient Greece is a green sticker with a dot, Ancient Rome is pink with a dot…middle ages module is a green sticker, early history is an orange sticker and modern history is pink. I have a 5 shelf bookcase and, starting with the top shelf, I just shelved the books according to the years. (makes sense?).
- On another 5-shelf bookcase I have the science books on one shelf, all science equipment on two shelves, personal development books/mission books and bible literature (Adam and His Kin, etc).
- A third bookshelf houses all of our literature/free reading books (not in any particular order).
- Two bookshelves house all of my books (I’m a book freak, can you tell?)
- The 6th bookshelf my kids each have their own shelf that houses their notebooks, math, the books they may be reading, etc.
This may seem like a lot of work but I jumped into the CM scene when my older kids were in junior high and high school so they all ended up on different history rotations just so they could get them all in and it was a hassle looking for books. Now, I have my oldest two children on different rotations but this upcoming year I will be able to put my youngest 3 on the same history rotation level. Doing this has just made it easier to be able look for the resources that I need rather than scramble around.
Hope this helped—from a fellow organization nut!
