I think it may be a rule that homeschoolers have to like books. I NEVER buy books at full price but it's so exciting to pick some up for free at the Stuff Swap or buy some for 25 cents at Goodwill Outlet or the Library book sale.
Another thing I LOVE to get for free or cheap is bookshelves. Sure, I could go buy some quality book shelves that will last many years. But I'd rather take everyone's cheap hand-me-downs and fit them in where I can. And we've been lucky that everytime one shelf falls apart, another one has come along. (At this point in our lives, we just have to make this work. I do have a plan on Ikea that I drool over, though.)
These are our chapter books, in our school room. They're all organized by reading level. If you look closely, you can see little flags made with masking tape and labeled with grade numbers.
I also have a few high school level books that are currently being stored in the garage until we need them.
You can see that our chapter books are next to this shelf (you see a bit at the far right of this picture.) This is about half of our non-fiction books. They're all divided by topic, the sections being labeled with manilla page dividers.
This is the other half of our nonfiction books, in the bottom two rows of this tall bookcase that sits on the other side of the school room.
In another corner of our school room is all of our picture books. Every once in a while, for fun, I'll sort the books and put all the Dr. Seuss books or fairytales together, for example. But I don't label these groups and I don't expect the kids to put books back in the same spot.
You can see in the top right corner of the picture that I have a little crate labeled "phonics readers." At the moment, Quartus is working his way through these books. As soon as he has read each little book once, then it gets pit back in that crate.
You can also see the big red and yellow plastic crates on top of the shelf. Those crates hold all of the boys' school books
This book case is to the left of the picture above. It's more picture books. The big green basket on the top shelf used to hold little baby board books, but I recently packed those away in storage. So at the moment it holds all the phonics readers that Quartus hasn't read yet.
The pink and light green crates on top hold the girls' school work.
The basket that holds the nonfiction books we're currently reading (on Fridays) lives on the floor under the window in the living room.
Our history curriculum and corresponding library books live on the top shelf of our entertainment center.
This bookcase is also in the living room. The bottom is where all our library books (and chapter books we're currently reading) are kept.
The next shelf up is for scripture stories.
This tall bookcase stands at a section of wall between the kitchen and school room. At the top is a few religious books, mostly student manuals for Sunday School and Seminary.
Down from there are cookbooks. Since everything is online, I only keep a couple cookbooks for myself. The rest are fun ones for the children.
Next are craft and drawing instruction books, with craft kits and supplies below.
While there are always books in every bed, (the kids love to read to themselves before they go to sleep) we don't store any in the kids' bedrooms. All books are communal property so they need to be out where all can access them.
The exceptions are Hubby's collections of videos game strategy guides, writers' reference books (in the picture above), and history books (in the picture below.) All of these are in his "Man Nook" in our bedroom (he had his own "Man Cave" when the children were younger and all shared a bedroom together.)
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