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Need advice for storage solutions, lack of bookshelves, lots of books and I'm in a portable! Help!?

  • This is my 2nd year teaching 2nd grade, and I'm going from a nice, large, spacious classroom, into a small, dingy, beat up portable with no storage. My old classroom had 6 bookshelves that were 7 feet by 3 feet each! Now, I have one little wire type shelf. I always stored my chapter books in baskets by series or reading level, and placed them on the bookshelves. I bought some of those wire connecting cubes from Target, as well as their particle board material cubby shelves, but neither of these will work for my book baskets. I don't have nearly as much room. Where can I get affordable bookshelves? As it is, I'm going to have to condense some of the baskets to 2 series per basket. I need storage solutions! And I'm on a budget, you fellow teachers know how it is. Help! Also, for those of you that have lived portable life...How do I handle bathroom breaks? They aren't far but they have to go in pairs. I'm so scared, I miss my old classroom already and all my cozy furniture!

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    Had the same situation with bookshelves. My suggestions (in addition to the obvious garage/yard/rummage sales): go to freecycle.com and request bookshelves. It's a website for people in your area that don't want to throw away things, but believe in giving away instead. Additionally, many dollar and discount stores (as do Wal-Mart-type stores) sale cheap utility shelving. If you have a table, you can always store your baskets of books on the table, too. Last idea, get heavy gauged wire and eyehooks at a hardware store. Screw the hooks into the wall or bulletin boards, string the wire through the eyes to make something similar to outside laundry lines. Open books in the middle and slip onto wires.

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Maybe a flea market or a church rummage sale in your area. Some Salvation Army thrift stores sell affordable furniture (bookcases) too.

Hosedragger18

Lumbar yard and buy long and wide boards according to the length size of your walls with plenty of brackets for support. You can easily stain or paint them. Add shelves accordingly as space is needed. If you have a "sawmill" in your area, you might stop by the office and ask if they have any "trash boards' they could give you a good price on.

nancie_usa

I'm not sure what your question is about bathroom breaks, so I can't help you much there. I had some of the same problems and I bought milk crate storage boxes...they are cheap, stackable and made of sturdy plastic, so it worked pretty well for me. Also, I was able to color code them, so white ones were the student's materials, blue were MY books, red were papers to hand out, etc.

its about time

If some of the books are paperback, then you might store them in large zip-lock plastic bags, attach the bags to slacks hangers (the ones that attach to each other vertically would create even more space), and hang them on a closet rod or drapery rod you attach to the wall. Or you might store something else from a shelf in this way and free up the shelf space you have for the books. Someone (or a local business) may donate the materials needed if you ask. Also, ask your parent organization for help with this need. As for the bathroom, schedule class breaks and encourage everyone to use the bathroom then. For the exceptions just let them go in pairs and don't draw attention to this situation I mean don't create a problem before there is one.

Pioneer

I'm in a portable and I love it! I do have 3 storage closets along one side. Look on www.craigslist.com under "free" and try out www.freecycle.org for bookshelves. Perhaps you can go to grocery stores to see if they have extras of those plastic crates. Do you have tables? Can you store stuff under the table and get a piece of fabric to cover up the table and what's underneath?

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