Somehow, we skipped these two books from our goals last quarter:
- Magic School Bus: Twister Trouble
- Ballpark Mysteries: The Fenway Foul-Up
Not sure how that happened, but we'll get to work fixing that right away. However, since we easily read four times the number of books we had listed I think I can be forgiven for forgetting about those two.
New list to knock out:
- Wonder Woman: Sword of the Dragon
- Wonder Woman: Dr. Psycho's Circus of Crime
- Batman: Catwoman's Halloween Heist
- Batman: Big-Mite's Big Blunder
- Batman: The Puppet Master's Revenge
- Magic Tree House: Vacation Under the Volcano
- Magic School Bus: The Giant Germ
- Ghost Detectors: Tell No One!
- Ghost Detectors: I Dare You!
- Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew: Chick-napped!
- Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew: The Zoo Crew
- Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew: Mall Madness
- Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew: Thanksgiving Thief
Also, I'm bringing back the book reports. I wanted to last quarter, but stuff was just WAY TOO CRAZY. Scooby-Doo starting speech, two visits from relatives, Ostara/Easter, three birthday's in the family, news from my husbands job that we are moving... it was just too much. Book reports are back in now, and they are simpler than they were before. I think that was part of our problem.
Last time we did a weekly book report, this time we'll do one every time we finish a chapter book, so there could (and will) be more than one a week. Last time I wanted them to write the author's name, favorite character, whether it was fiction or non-fiction, etc. It was just too much for them. This time they only have to write a sentence or two about the book and draw a picture. That's it. Nice and easy.
FYI, their reading is going good. I'm hoping they will be completely reading level one books on their own (Optimus Prime especially) by the end of this quarter, and hopefully they will be ready to tackle chapter books on their own in second grade. I'm stressing a bit about them being "late readers" but truthfully that's (a) common for late talkers (which they were), (b) common for kids who needed speech therapy (which they did), and (c) some kids don't master level 1 books until the end of second grade. So, with two things stacked against my kids already it's quite possible they won't get this down until third grade. I'm determined for that to NOT happen, but every kid is different. We'll just take it one day at a time and see how it goes.
