Top Class Reader

Today the boy won a badge. He is the top reader in his class for the month of March. All of the work we have done for the past month has paid off well, and he came home filled with pride. We still have a few days to go in the month, but I havery little doubt that he will win the prize he has worked towards all month long--a new video game. He was challanged to read 2000 minutes in the month of March (minutes read to him count), and he is less than 200 minutes from that goal. He is also very motivated.

The best part? The past two weeks have included at least 100 minutes of time where he was reading to us.

No, I was wrong. The best part is seeing him filled with pride at doing something he really enjoyed. Congratulations are in order!

Who Will Win?

An exciting phonics book, read by the boy.

Books read this week

The boy's reading rquirements have us in a tizzy!

This week we have read:

A few chapters of the first Harry Potter
David Gets in Trouble
Captain Underpants
Scooby -Doo and the Mummy's Curse
Lion Boy (three chapters so far)
The Magic Treehouse books #'s 21, 22, 23, and 24
and the Sunday Comics.

Plus he listens to a book every night as he goes to bed, though we do not count those, because we have no idea how much he hears before he falls asleep. He also reads a short phonics based book to us every day.

It is wonderful, and we are all enjoying the books we are reading, but it leaves little time to read for myself!

Just to show how lucky we are....

"Currently, fewer than 3,000 of the 29,000 U.S. servicemembers in South Korea are on multi-year accompanied tours; the rest are there on a one-year rotation. But officials estimate that more than 17,000 of them are married."
From Stars and Stripes

Wendall Reading

The boy is quickly learning to read and write. He asked to write something today, so I asked him to read it aloud for everyone.



At school on Friday, there was a reading program in the library. Wendall read a few books to the kids who had gathered in front of his chair. A large portion of the school attended the evening read-a-long.

The wisdom of a five year old child

A few weeks ago I went on a wander with Wendall's class. While we walked, I spent some time talking with his classmates. One little boy really wanted my attention, so I just let him ramble. This is what he told me:

"My family has a bunch of money. My dad told me that. And wen you have a bunch of money you can go to the dentist and he will put a CROWN on your tooth! And I have one!"

Tonight we were in the middle of dinner wen Wendall looked down at his plate:

"Mama? In Germany we call french fries pommes, but it's a french word. Volcanos have it, too, but it's not french."

"Wait, what do volcanos have?"

"Pumice! It's rocks, not french fries."