The weather so far has been good for pretty much nothing. It's almost the end of June and we have done nothing summery (never mind the other obvious reasons for that). It's wet, cloudy and cold today. Landon had a baseball game last night, I wore a sweatshirt and jeans and was still freezing cold. He has another tonight. It's a home game, our home park is always very windy, meaning it will be about 10 degrees colder there.
So, what do you do to keep your kids reading for the summer? We used to participate in the summer reading program at the library, but we rarely completed it, not because the kids didn't read, but because I wasn't good at getting back to fill stuff in. So, we don't do that anymore. Last year we tried reading a set amount of time per day. That was great for about a week, then we got busy and out of the habit and that went out the window. So this year we are trying something new.
The kids can read as much or little as they want. But, thier screen time is directly affected by thier reading time. For every minute they read they earn 1.5 minutes of screen time. They can save thier minutes for the whole summer, I'm ok with that. Landon is better at this than Bailey. He currently has about 600+ minutes banked up. Bailey might have 30. 600 minutes is a lot of screen time, but I know that there is very little chance that Landon will sit inside for 10 hours playing wii or watching tv. Bailey on the other hand... well, we don't have to worry about it really. Two very different kids, same mom and dad.
Happy {summer} reading!
1 comment:
Lynette,
Love your summer reading plan. Haley's never been an avid reader "on her own" for her own enjoyment, but will sit "anytime" and listen to James or I read "to her". She has learned that for her school book reports that she can get the books read much quicker if she reads them silently to herself, and she does seem to enjoy reading those books to herself for the most part. Happy reading!!!! Karen
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