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I just got in my final package today. I bought LHTH, LHFHG, and BHFHG...all the full sets.

I had the bulk arrive today from Rainbow Resource, and the other boxes from Overstock.com and HOD arrived earlier last week.

Now to organize the shelves and delve into all these goodies!

BTW, does anyone here use a color coding system to separate out all your books by subject? I'm wondering how useful that would be and I ponder just how to line up my shelves. I didn't want the DITHOR books mixed in with everything just so they were easier to find. I thought of using colored tape for separating out history, science, and reading...and then seeing how that went.

Tab

WooHoo!!! That's a lot of fun boxes!

I do use those colored round stickers on the edges of our books for the different curriculum we have. It makes it so much easier to find a book or to replace the book on the shelf where it belongs.

The colored dots are a neat idea, I hadn't thought of that.


Happy unpacking

I used color coding on all my books. It's working really well. I just needed a way to keep I all straight in my head.

So what I did was color code the spine of every single book and put the reading level and genre even if it was in the program in case I wanted to use it for DITHR later. I color coded by HOD program (BHFHG, LHFHG, DITHR) and I tried to match it to the cover color. I did a special section for the extension pack as well so I knew it was for Bigger Extension (those may be recycled for DITHR by my middle kids later). I also did the reading level and genre for the other reading books we had that could fit into DITHR in the future as well. The emerging readers are obvious to me but I did not want to lose them so they are all in a plastic box in our book cabinet.

For the extra things we do I have baskets. For example I have some other read alouds I already had that I thought would go well, some other character material, and our Bible study books. They are all in wire baskets inside my chest near the couch where we use them. I also keep the current program read alouds there and the thing that are in the program that we use every day or constantly like science. It works really well. We have not had any major book searching moments. It's always just there and we know what goes to what program. When we finish we will put them in a plastic storage box to reuse again with my youngest two when they are ready.