Thursday, October 2, 2014

All aboard the reading train

A couple of summers ago I was trying to find a way to motivate my kids for summer reading, my kids usually don't need much motivation to read every day but I wanted to give them a loftier goal so we set a meeting and they kids set how many books to read. We didn't reach the goal but I guess the kids loved it because they asked if we could do it again this year. 

 We sat down and had another meeting and the kids decided that they could read 100 books between June 1st and September 1st. I thought it was a bit much but they were convinced they could do it.
We had a slow start and come June 30th with 16 books read I was pretty sure that we were not going to make it.
 The kids had fun though and come August, even knowing that they wouldn't hit the goal, asked if they could continue until we ran out of trains.

Due to James finding that his favorite series of books (Beast Quest) had published another 30 novels, we hit 100 novels by September 28th.

It was a fun experiment and one I am sure we will try again. 

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  1. House of AcronymsOctober 3, 2014 at 4:39 AM

    Oh this is fun. So is the name of the book and the date it was completed written on each train car? I'm really digging this idea.

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  2. NatalieOctober 5, 2014 at 10:30 AM

    Yes, each train (printed on the silhouette!) has the book name, who read the book, and the date the finished. About every ten cars I put the number of car we are on.

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