New School Year, Improved Library

Each new school year, I come back into my classroom to a mountain of furniture, blank walls, and filled with that back-to-school nervous excitement.  I arrange tables and chairs, put up some fresh bulletin boards, and then I get to do my favorite back-to-school task: organizing the classroom library.  I purposely save this for last, because I could spend weeks doing this every year and nothing else would get done.  I've been known to stop part way and start reading.  I mean, am I supposed to not read the books?!

Last year I made some MAJOR changes to how I organized my library.  All books are organized by genre or author instead of level.  This has been life-changing!  I kept a small bookshelf of leveled readers that I use during assessments or small groups, but otherwise my students choose books from our shelves just how you would at a real library.  Minus the Dewey Decimal System, of course.

Here is this year's result after adding a few bins, a fancy spinning rack for series, and re-numbering books so it made more sense.
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