Olde-Schooling: Shelf Reorganization

I spent most of yesterday sorting through our books, and reorganizing our shelves. That's easier said than done. Our kitchen book shelf has to house the most used stuff. Well, the kids' most used stuff anyway. My books had to be moved elsewhere for now.

Here is what we have on our top shelf. On the left is our new modern language for the year (Korean), followed by several Latin resources. What this shelf wasn't able to accommodate, were my Latin books (Henle, Wheelock's, and Lingua Latina), as well as our Galore Park Latin books.

I would just love to have everything kept together, but shelf space is lacking, instead of crack-a-lackin' at our house. I dream of built-in book cases. In. Every. Room.

Here we have Drew Campbell's Memory Work book. Love this resource! E has expressed interest in learning Spencerian script, so those penmanship manuals are on on this shelf as well.

We tried I.E.W. for the first time this past year, and while I feel just so-so about it, it has been a hit with E, so who am I to complain?

Next we have our Catechism books. I'm so excited about starting the Didache series with E this year! I'm still kicking myself for not having started her on them last year, but better late than never. S & F and still working their way through My Catholic Faith (gorgeous and faithful), and when we can fit it in, we're still s-l-o-w-l-y going through Memoria Press' Christian Studies guide, only we use the Douay-Rheims translation for the memory work and copywork selections.

And here are the rest of our Catholic books (at least the ones we'll be using this year), and some more of our writing resources. I'm excited to start S & F on Killgallon this year. For those of you unfamiliar with the Killgallon books, basically they teach children how to compose interesting sentences using modeling techniques. The goal is to reproduce the grammatical form, not the content, of the sentences being modeled. It's really neat! We'll take a lot of our copywork and dictation selections from it as well.

Lots of cool writing resources this year...including The Grammar of Poetry for my high schooler, and Imitation in Writing - Greek Myths for my younger two.

Next we have Science and Math.

It took forever to settle on Campbell's Exploring Life for biology this year, and while I still haven't received the student text (backordered), from what I can gather from the Teacher's Edition, it was a very good choice. Also on this shelf is Geometry: A Guided Inquiry. We'll be using the Math Without Borders CD along with it. I'm always grateful for the added help. Teacher resources are worth their weight in gold at our house. Oh, and the CD also contains all of the solutions! Score!

Hmmm...Forgot to capture the other side of the shelf. Those were all Singapore Math books, and there were a few Saxon Math books in there as well.

The bottom shelf is home to a few Art and Classical Studies books.

They're hard to see, but we've got Tanglewood Tales and A Wonder Book on here as well. Come to think of it, we've got a lot of Hawthorne on our shelves.

Some more Classical Studies titles and a few history books... E's history books are elsewhere. Again, not enough space to accommodate everything on the one shelf.