Monday, June 4, 2012

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

Sunday, June 3, 2012

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.  





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















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 :)


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.





This is a journal you can buy.