How do you shelf history books?

[Learning Together]

We're finishing up Beautiful Feet's American history. I can't decide how I want to put the books away when we're done. Do they go in the basement on the fiction shelf of "books for future use"? Do they go on the general free for all book shelf in the living room (if they do I worry they will get destroyed by babies) ? Do they all get kept together on curriculum shelf for if we do the guide again in 4-5 years? But if I do that they may never be browsed and they're such good books.... HELP! What do you do with your books when you're done?

[hollyhock]

Fiction books I would set on the shelf where everyone can access and read them, so the "free for all" shelf that you have. Can you put them up high enough that babies can't reach them? If there are any textbooks, those have their own shelf at my house.

[Learning Together]

It is high enough the babies can't reach...and the babies are taught that they have their own shelf of board books. I just worry because most of these are soft cover and we loved them so much I don't want them to get destroyed.  I guess what good is a book if it just sits on a shelf though, right?

 

So how do you handle when it comes time to do the study again....just hunt for the books and hope you find them all?

[HomeAgain]

I have a history bookshelf in the game room.  It's all our resources organized by year, but cycles are mixed together.  For example, our Ancients bookshelf has picture books up through late middle school, both fiction and non-fiction.  Mara, Daughter Of The Nile is right next to You Wouldn't Want To Work On The Pyramids! and a cd on Egyptian myths by Jim Weiss.

 

We had a very similar set up when I was growing up and it was nice to be able to browse on my own time, and not be limited by a segregated age level.

[MerryAtHope]

I have a history shelf for spines and biographies, and then other shelves for historical fiction and literature (US younger and older, and World younger and older). You can use colored sticker dots or strips on the spines to associate books for one year together, which might help you find them later. If any covers do get damaged, I love Vernon Reddi Roll (library-quality laminate) for recovering and repairs. 

 

Have fun!

[Ausmumof3]

Mine are together for now.

 

I'm hoping to set up a bookshelf with a shelf for each year of the four year history cycle I think. Then a separate one for science.

[hollyhock]

 

So how do you handle when it comes time to do the study again....just hunt for the books and hope you find them all?

Yup, just hunt for all the books. My library isn't that huge that I wouldn't find them again (hopefully).

[nixpix5]

We have a history book shelf that starts with early ancient times and progresses through Egypt, Greece, Rome, Middle Ages ext in order. It has been helpful as I find the kids go back and reread certain books or periods they are especially drawn to.

[Rosika]

I have a history bookshelf in the game room.  It's all our resources organized by year, but cycles are mixed together.  For example, our Ancients bookshelf has picture books up through late middle school, both fiction and non-fiction.  Mara, Daughter Of The Nile is right next to You Wouldn't Want To Work On The Pyramids! and a cd on Egyptian myths by Jim Weiss.

 

We had a very similar set up when I was growing up and it was nice to be able to browse on my own time, and not be limited by a segregated age level.

 

This is exactly how I store mine, and for exactly the same reason. :)

[Ellie]

I would shelve fiction books with all fiction books, alphabetized by author's last name. I might put stickers on the spines indicating that they were historical fiction, so I could easily find them later. I might do the same with other genres, the way it is done in the library.

 

Of course, I don't do history with a four-year cycle, so I'm probably different from y'all. :-)

[Melissa in Australia]

I have a whole bookcase for historical fiction that I assign as readers when doing that year of fiction. Each shelf is a different time period : ancient top shelf, medieval next shelve, then Renascence, them early modern and then modern.

[boscopup]

I put stickers on the spines, color coded. Good fiction books that are not historical fiction go with the good fiction books. Historical fiction have a different color code. Nonfiction history books are divided into US history and world history. All of these books are in the school room on a bookshelf that toddler does not have access to without supervision. They're actually in her room right now, but she's in a crib. ;) We plan to swap her room when we move her to a big girl bed.

Edited November 18, 2017 by boscopup

[bethben]

I have all my books coded by time period with stickers on bookshelves. My dd is a non-fiction reader and will read the non-fiction constantly. She’s learned quite a bit just from reading those books. I’m glad I made hem available. Curriculum guides and textbooks go in bins.

 

 

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[coastalfam]

I suggest storing in moisture free bins to preserve the books, and make a habit of rotating a few into a book basket for kiddos to peruse as they please. In my house, just like a game or set of toys that goes into storage for a few months and then are brought back out to thoroughly enjoy, books have the same effect when they are stored and then rotated out. Also keeps the house less cluttered, and the toddlers less tempted! :)