Thursday, January 28, 2010

Books, Books, Books

Reading Olympics is on at D’s school. It started two weeks ago. Last night he qualified for the bronze by reading a total of 125 minutes over the last few days. It took about 8 books to reach this milestone and there’s no stopping. D is elated, excited, enthused about his new found ability to read-yes, he read most of them. This morning he took the recording sheet to submit to his class teacher.

With a big smile and twinkle in his eyes, he told me, “Mama, I will tell Ms. Smith that I read most of the books. All BY MYSELF!! She will be SO proud of me.”

You bet, son…go toot your horn!!! Silver…watch out, here we come!

List of books read:
Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child- Bob Graham
The Blast Off Boy and Blorp: The Big Science Fair by Dan Yaccarino
The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
Spider Man Saves the Day- Action Figueroa
How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors – Jan Yolen
Daddy’s Little Helper –Frank Endersby
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll and Helen Oxenbury
The Teacher from the Black Lagoon –Mike Thaler and Jared Lee

2 comments:

Priyanka Rajkhowa said...

Woooow...I love this...it's just so awesome , the fact that D has gotten bitten by the reading bug already!!! Way to go!

Suku said...

thanks sweetie..i think he is more kicked about the Olympics than anything else...but this surely is a great way in getting little kids to read. its awesome to hear their cute little voices as they intently go over the book.