Keep them reading up to and through the holidays!

Matt was a reading machine this weekend! We stopped at the library after school on Wednesday to pick up a couple things on reserve and Matt found some books to check out and spent a lot of his holiday weekend reading them. He finished 2 of them (one Time Warp Trio book and another book about a baseball story) and is working on "The Quigleys" now which he said is pretty funny.

Kayleigh has a bunch of books going, as usual. Her Irish dance book, The Education of Patience Goodspeed, and The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate.

Nick is reading in various places now. He seems to have a book stashed lots of places. Hmm, must get that from his mom!

He reads in church, in the car, on the couch, in bed, etc. Today he read his Charlie Brown comic book in the car on the way to see Santa. He's also reading #32 Magic Tree House. He said he wanted to read those again. Fine!

Alex is reading Dr. Seuss beginner books. He read the one about "What you see in the Zoo"...something like that. And, I read the book about "Thinking"...something like Oh the Things You Can Think by Dr. Seuss.

Alex also likes getting easy chapter books and flipping through them. He finds words he knows now/again and just enjoys flipping through quickly. That's fine. I read them to him when he wants and just let him "play with the books" too.

I laughed Allyn about the reading machine . . . exactly! this long weekend both kids were serious readers.

Ellen read 4 70-100 page chapter books in her down time.

and really exciting is that Audrey seems to have *clicked* into a love of reading in the past week or two!! it's so great. It was a bit of a struggle for a while to get her to pick books that weren't too easy for her, well this weekend she picked out a bunch of beginner chapter books and dern if she didn't grab one each morning and crawl back into bed and read for a while!