On Monday, we had no students and were almost done packing up our classroom (EVERYTHING has to be put away and piled up for the summer). I decided that SOMETHING had to be done. I gathered all of the books onto a few tables and piled them into about 34234435 milk crates. I thought of as many themes and authors as I could, wrote them on index cards and got to work sorting. I added more themes and author study authors as I went along. I also created an area for authors in alphabetical order.
This is the gigantic mess when I first started sorting... so embarrassing!
Here are a few of the themed piles (in alphabetical order, of course)
Finally, I placed each pile of books into milk crates by theme and stored them away for the summer. This felt SO good!
In the fall, I hope to find a beautiful bookshelf like this one to store all of my newly organized books in. I also created a bunch of dividers on my computer to print out on cardstock, laminate and stick between the books. Yay for organization!
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I am so proud of you! I'll keep sending my OCD your way hehe.
I am the same way about books! I have milk crates FULL of books in my storage closet. I have finally started going through them this summer. I am adding ones to appropriate baskets already in my classroom sorted by author or genre. The rest I am going to donate! Happy Organizing!
Mrs. Lochel
Keeping Up With The Kindergartners
http://lochelskindergarten.blogspot.com/
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