The long white shelf holds all of my sorted books by categories and themes. I bring these out one or two at a time throughout the year. The kids do NOT choose books from these bins. Only 3 children are allowed back here at a time. Books available for SSR are on the spinning rack to the left and the brown bookshelves to the left and right. You can see the book boxes on the top of the white shelf. 

Book Categories include:

• math and ABC books

• animals

• school

• family

• sports

• science-general

• social studies-general, etc.

And also into my main themes for the year:

• Back to school/End of school

• Apples/Fall/Fire/Columbus

• Ponds and Forests

• Deserts

• Thanksgiving

• Magnets & Simple Machines

• Christmas

• Winter

• Polar habitat

• Black History, MLK

• Valentine's, Teeth, Groundhog's Day

• America

• Gardens and Plants

• Ocean habitat

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since 7/21/08