Amelia did it! She (we) read 40 books this summer already! On Tuesday, we had planned to try Tiny Tot Swim again, but with the wet weather, we took a trip to the library instead to turn in her book log. She received a certificate with her name on it claiming she had "caught the reading bug", 2 tickets to the River City Rascals baseball game, and a free kid's meal at Red Robin. In addition, she also got to pick another prize. She chose a family of frogs that are perfect for bathtime. As if that wasn't enough, because I wrote a few sentences about her favorite book, Bittle, she also got to pick out a free book to keep! She chose Clifford Goes to Dog School and we've already read it 17 times (or at least it feels that way).
This has been such a great motivator for me to get her to the library on a weekly basis. She has increased her vocabulary tremendously, and has picked up some new favorite characters along the way. She loves to choose books from the shelf and put them in our bag. At the counter, she hands our card to the librarian and helps take the books from our bag to be checked out. At that point, she just asks constantly to go home to read. "Mommy, home, read" over and over until we are, in fact, at home and reading.
We picked up a new log to continue keeping track of the books we read for the rest of the summer. I will definitely post again if we find anymore favorites! Did you notice one of the authors posted a comment on our blog last time we mentioned some favorites? How cool is that?
2 comments:
You beat us! ;) We finished our 40 yesterday and need to head back to the library. This is such a great motivating program isn't it? Emily squeals when we pull into the parkign lot! Amelia looks so proud with her frogs and book!
We should meet up at the library some time - Sean loves it too! Of course, he gets a bit stupid and crazy in there.
Congrats to Amelia - that's very exciting!!
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