Skip to main content

Summer Reading Rewards

There has been a lot of reading going on at our house this summer! The kids have read right at 60 books so far~and they're still at it! This past week they began collecting their rewards.

They participated in the reading programs at our library, Borders, Barnes & Noble and Chuck E. Cheese. I have really been proud of them! They each got free books at the library and bookstores and there are free tokens to come at our visit to CEC~which will be soon.

I thought the choices of books to choose from were fairly good and I liked their picks. There weren't a lot on Mr. B's reading level (or near reading level:), but we found some good ones for him to *grow into*. I'm looking forward to reading the ones I haven't read before, such as: Johnny Treman and A Cricket in Times Square.

What have they been reading all summer long, you ask? Well, Mr. B has read (with me) many of Dr. Seuss' books among many others. The Princess' fave summer reads have been the Magic Tree House books. Of course, we are still reading through the Little House series as a family and we love those.

What are your kiddos reading? I love to hear about good children's books!
Labels:

Comments

Stacy said…
Great books! Have you ever checked out Lesson Pathways? We used them last year and loved it. A lot of those books were on the list so if you are looking for some free lesson ideas, check them out :)

Stacy
August 10, 2010 at 8:00 AM
Renee said…
Hi Lora! Love those books! Cricket.. and Johnny Tremain are on our list for this year. Good for the kiddos!
August 10, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Lora @ my blessed life said…
Moderate Means~
I have not checked out those books before, but I will! Thanks for the suggestion!
August 10, 2010 at 10:52 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Making of an Egyptian Death Mask

We are learning all about the ancient world this year with Story of the World I and loving it! We've been learning a lot about Egypt, of course, which is completely fascinating. Most recently we have studied the New Kingdom of Egypt, which includes the story of King Tut. So we decided making an Egyptian death mask in the style of King Tut's would be a fun project. First since it was too cold at the time to paper mache in the garage (it probably would have frozen instead of dried-ha) and it was too messy to do it in the house, we decided to pick up a couple of cheap craft masks at Hobby Lobby. Next we cut out cardboard shapes to complete the shape of the death mask, attaching them with hot glue. Vince even put a little detail on the *beard* with the hot glue per The Princess' request. Then the kiddos started to paint them with this metallic gold tempera paint. It worked okay for the cardboard, but would not coat the plastic of the mask. We thought maybe a second coat
23 comments
Read more

1st Day Back to {home}School, Among Other Things

We did it! We finally got unpacked enough and got our new learning room organized enough to start back to school! Frankly, I was starting to get worried...ha Today went very well though. So far I am extremely pleased with our new curriculum choices for math and language arts. Now, if I could just actually get some lesson planning done... And get the finishing touches done in the learning room, so I can blog it! In other news, it has been a bit of a traumatic week...pet-wise. Last weekend a sweet friend (who had asked my permission beforehand) brought the kiddos their very own little fish tank with two goldfish. Well, on Sunday we noticed that The Princess' fish was pretty lethargic...dead, actually. She was sad, but she handled it fairly well. And we went to the store that evening and let her pick out a new goldfish. Well, today during our school time~the fish tank is in our learning room~we noticed Mr. B's fish was acting funny. And then he was dead. It was a
10 comments
Read more

Door Hanger Chore Charts

My kids have had a chore chart for a while.  It's one of those magnetic boards and they share it.  However, it's not by their rooms and often they (and I) forget to update it.  Plus it's a little bulky.   When I saw the concept of a door hanger chore chart on Pinterest, I loved it!  It was compact, right there were the kiddos could see it coming out and going into their rooms, and it costs almost nothing to make.   I headed over to one of my favorite stores: Hobby Lobby, of course.  They  have these little wooden door hangers for .79.  I also grabbed a couple of packets of decorative buttons for $1.99 each.  I already had the clothes pins and the paint so those cost me nothing.   I began by painting the door hangers (I used tempera paints because that's what I had).  Then I grabbed a fine point Sharpie and the clothes pins and started writing chores on them, making sure to write them correctly so they will clip on the right direction.   The left
17 comments
Read more