Summer Reading Chart

So some kids are bookworms and some kids would rather be playing with actual worms.  

I have 1 bookworm and 2 that would rather being playing with worms!!

So I made up this Summer Reading Chart to perhaps persuade my oldest that reading can be fun, AKA BRIBE him!!

Now some may think this is not a good approach but we sometimes do what we have to do!

Every time he reads a book to me, he can cross off a number.

When he reads 22 books then he reached his goal and will 

get his reward. 

I left a line at the bottom so you can fill in the "BRIBE" that will motivate your child best. 

If you would like to download this summer reading chart

click here

Week 2: Reptiles

 Week 2: June 4th- June 8th

Theme: Reptiles

My son LOVES reptiles, therefore his younger sister claims to love reptiles (she likes to copy a lot of what he does). So this week we are learning all about frogs, lizards and snakes.  

Red-Eyed Tree Frog

Frog Puppet

*This one is more for our 20 month old, his favorite song is 5 little speckled frogs

Cobra

Rattlesnake

Snake Pizza

Frog cookie

Lizards

This doesn't really have anything to so with reptiles but  I thought it looks fun and wanted them to have a shirt to wear over their swimsuits. I will let you know how it goes :)

Shirts

Journal Pages

Here is a great activity that helps keep your kids minds thinking. 

A daily journal page!!

I love this because you can start your child doing this as young as you wish.

I helps them practice their writing skills, use their creative juices to answer the question and they get to use their art skills.

But the best part of all is, I hope to start teaching my children about journal keeping.

I have made a book for them (I will show in another post) and each day I ask a question and they can answer it. Every Friday they can write whatever they want to write about.

Sometimes I write some of the sentence for them and Ryker needs to fill in the blanks.

Amelia is still learning how to write so I wrote the sentence for her with a marker and then she traced it with a pencil.

These are older journal pages, but normally I have them write their name and the date.

Here is a link to blank journal page you can download and copy. Get started with your kids, then when you have a little free time, try and make them a book or buy a children's journal page already made.

Journal Page Download

This is a journal you can buy.