Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Jack writes!

When Jack started kindergarten, he didn't really like to write or draw or do anything that involved paper, crayons, markers or a pencil.

Since being in kindergarten for a few months now, his love of writing has taken off.  He loves writing and sounding out words and drawing pictures.  He has two excellent teachers, Mrs. Schembri and Mrs. Church that make his classroom a very positive environment.  He loves going to school and loves writing and reading.

Last week when Grandma and Grandpa Judi were visiting us, we let the kids come home from school early to be with them.  After an hour or so, Jack said, "I want to go to school and be with my school-mates."

The other evening, Jack sat down at the bar and said he was going to write down all the words that he could spell, so then I took his picture.


Sunday, September 25, 2011

"Girls Rule When They Read" Book Club

A month or so ago, Kate and her friend Sophi decided that they wanted to start their own book club.  Her mom, Juli, and I go to book club too.  Kate and Sophi started planning all the little details, even emailing a few friends (without me knowing).  Finally Juli and I sat down and finalized all the details and started the club.

The "Girls Rule When They Read" book club met for the first time on Friday at our house.  The books that Kate chose was the original Rainbow Magic Fairy books.  The girls could read any of the books in the series.   There were eight girls invited total.  They thought of lots of other girls that they wanted to invite, but we had to limit it.

Kate and I planned out what the plan was for the meeting and then Kate took charge.

She welcomed all the girls and had them introduce themselves.  Kate led the book "discussion".  They talked about what book they read, who their favorite character was, and what their favorite part of the book was.  The girls were all very sweet and well-behaved and were very interested in the discussion.
Sophi, Annika, Ada, Amelia, Laura and Kate
Next the girls had a snack -- kettle corn and apples w/caramel dip (one of the girls can't have gluten).  Then they made fairy door hangers and worked on a dot to dot coloring page.
Ada, Ty, Laura, Kate, Nina, Amelia, Sophi, Annika
Then they played a few games of "Fairy" Hide and Seek.  Two of the girls were Kirsty and Rachel (from the book), one was Jack Frost and the other girls were fairies.

The girls had a great time and can't wait until their next meeting.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Reading

I snapped the picture of the kids today.  Kate was reading library books to Jack.  It was so nice!  Kate is gaining confidence in her reading ability every day.  It's amazing to watch someone learn how to read.  At the library today Kate picked out 10 of the 13 books that we checked out and she can read all of them.