tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10358122.post-1354747421732387112009-01-15T00:35:00.000-08:002009-01-15T00:50:14.503-08:00hey ladies- here's an open call for school room help. help help help. And please forward this post to other homeschoolers who might be able to help. And tweet it if you have a twitter account. I have a huge dilemma.<br /><br />So we have this loft area in the new house that I'm setting up as our library. I need functionality and storage.<br /><br />I have shelves.<br /><br />How is your school room arranged?<br /><br />We used to group everything according to which year of The Well Trained Mind it fell into. I have a friend who stores everything according to which Sonlight year it goes in. Should i stick with my old method that we've used for several years? Should I keep it all mixed up because they seemed to all secretly trade boxes while they were packed and nothing looks like it's together anymore. Should I use the dewey decimal system? <br /><br />Our core items that we use daily (current math books and manipulatives, reference books, etc) are handy and that seems to be an obviously smart idea. But as far as history and Science books go, I really liked the Well Trained Mind System. <br /><br />The other issue is a matter of, I guess, another episode of <a href="http://mrshannigan.blogspot.com/2009/01/ocd-show.html">the OCD show</a>. It's the episode where I like all the books to line up nicely on the shelf. So that tall books aren't overcrowding short books. <br /><br />And, I have table areas where I'll be making centers for the younger kids and swapping out the materials at the centers regularly. Should the things at the centers be completely original, or should I let them be visible? <br /><br />I realize these are complicated questions. I wish I could post a picture of the loft but I'm not done unpacking yet. I'll show you a picture when it's unpacked. <br /><br />Anyways, a lot of homeschoolers post pictures of their school rooms, I think I did last year or the year before. Help me out here and give me some guidance to how your home library is organized. And what to do with the kids' educational videos and software? Should I let them have the computers in their new rooms, since the rooms are bigger than the loft? Or should I cram the computers into the school room, since that's where I want them. or should I put a couch in there, so they can have a book reading nook? Not that I have a spare couch lying around, but there's always freecycle!<br /><br />Ok- hopefully I'll be flooded with awesome ideas, and Oprah will send a home organization guru to my house with tons of wicker baskets and non-plastic storage solutions.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10358122-135474742173238711?l=mrshannigan.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lisa Russellnoreply@blogger.com1