We have young, active, very hands-on learners in our family. We have two tall (five shelf) bookshelves. The lower shelves hold the kids general reading and for fun books, the middle shelves hold our currently in use school books and the top shelves are reference books and more advanced books for when the kids are older. By then we are out of shelf space and so the encyclopedias are lines up on the floor between the shelves and the hearth. More kids reading books are in small plastic baskets. There is a book basket in each room of the house. The books move around, but when a room is cleaned the books go in the basket of whatever room they are in. This keeps the books easy to get at and keeps the shelves from breaking after being crammed with too many books. We have plastic tubs of art supplies on top of the bookshelves. They were lower until an overly enthusiastic artist decorated the wood floor and wall of our (rented house) living room. The colors were beautiful though.
We don't really schedule school. I have a clip board with regular old lined notebook paper where I keep track of what we are doing. I plan by the week with a simple outline for each day showing what we will do and which resources (computer program, books, video, etc.) we will be using. As each is done it is crossed off. Many times I cross off work ahead of schedule because we were interested in the topic and kept going unstead of waiting for the next day to do more. The last day plays catchup on whatever our interests left behind during the week. This wouldn't work if we were in a state that made us turn in lesson plans and such. But for us, for right now, it works great.
~ tia lea
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