Well, The last week has been like day and night compared to the last post. The kids blasted through the silver medal (10 hours) and Drew even is reading for fun! Once again I think the keys are good incentives and GOOD BOOKS. I am able to email the library Read more…
Well… Summer reading has not gone as well as hoped. It is hard for them to want to read instead of watch TV, or play with their toys or… It didn’t help that we went camping for two weekends in a row and then spent most of the week away. Read more…
Well, the poetry didn’t go over as well as I hoped it would. I guess the poems I picked were probably a little bit too much for their ages. I just wanted to expose them, though, and even if they don’t ‘understand’ them (why does everything have to be understood?) Read more…
Ok, before we do another round of 3 books I wanted to expose the kids to some poetry. So, I found some poems that are pretty straight forward and a couple that are a little more abstract. I put them each on a piece of paper and let the kid’s Read more…
So, it is turning out that we pick three books and the kid’s read all three and then they tell me what their favorite one is and why (maybe will get some video of this). Then, thanks to the nice review sheets from the ‘Book-It’ program by Pizza Hut they Read more…
So the Booklings stopped off at the local Pierce County library and signed all of its members up for its summer reading program. Then we went downtown and signed up for Puyallup library’s summer reading program too. We also took the opportunity to pick up some books to start. I Read more…
So with the help of Pizza Hut and the local library here in Puyallup I have started putting together some reading lists. The Puyallup Library has some really good incentives if the kids complete 15 hours of reading (Free books, Baseball Game, Zoo Passes) and I was able to sign Read more…
School’s almost done and this summer I want to help my 3 kids with some reading. My thought is that for each child I am going to pick 3 books for them to read. 1 – classic 1 – newer published 1 – self published I am not Read more…