Book #5 for 2025 I started this book several months ago and it finally came up in my TBR queue to finish reading. This book is all about why reading aloud is beneficial to children. My husband started our family read-aloud journey as a “reluctant reader”. We’ve been going strong - reading aloud about 5 … Continue reading Jim Trelease’s Read-Aloud Handbook, 8th Edition
Family Winter Reading: read together 55 days between 12/2/24 - 3/1/25 ✅ Prize: a new family game We’ve had lots of fun playing this game. It’s like Taboo but you can only use one syllable words to get your team to guess the clue words. And if the clue-giver makes a mistake, the opposing team … Continue reading Completed: Winter Reading Challenge 2024-2025: Books & Prizes!
12/2024 I started this post last December (2023). We never finished the challenge so I forgot about posting it. Better late than never. 🤷🏻♀️ 12/2023 You can visit http://www.scholastic.com to print the free winter reading challenge from Scholastic. Here’s what we read towards completing this challenge (we did a little double dipping between this challenge … Continue reading Scholastic Winter Reading Challenge 2023
We don’t live in Idaho anymore, but I just love the Idaho Falls library reading challenges! The library itself is really beautiful and has an indoor Koi pond. Perhaps the ambience adds to the creativity of the librarians there. Obviously, we can’t get the prizes from the library and we can’t do all of the … Continue reading Winter Reading Challenge 2024-2025
I’m excited! The Idaho Falls Library just released their Extreme Book Nerd for Kids 2024 challenge. I like to use this challenge as a way to stretch our horizons of book selections over the year. We’ve discovered some of our favorite books by completing these reading challenges. We’ve also read a wider variety of books, and … Continue reading Extreme Book Nerd 2024
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