Wed 4 Nov 2009
The 100-Books-a-Month Challenge
Posted by brooklinemama under books (children's) , child development , language development , reading and writing
I discovered the Home-Grown Kids 100-books-a-month challenge through Sherry’s blog, and just knew Amie would go for it.
We already read about 100 books a month, only they’re often the same ones. (Could it be we sometimes read the same book 100 times? It sure seems that way sometimes!) So our challenge will be to read 100 different books.
Part of the challenge will also be to give Amie a better idea of what “a hundred” means. She is in her exaggeration stage: everything “a hundred and a million!” nowadays. And though she needs no help with addition and subtraction (up to 20), those hardly contribute to estimation.
We also discussed what “challenge” means. We agreed on a definition: “something we do that is not easy, but a bit difficult but still not impossible for us to do and that is fun and that we learn from”.
Amie is in charge of keeping the list - I hope she catches on to the fun and usefulness of keeping lists. We might also make little notes about whether we liked the book or not, and why, and if we would reread it. Amie will also be reading to me, so watch out for some “first books” on the list as well.
So far (today) we’ve read:
November 4th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
It’s so funny how different children are. When I was little I would have loved writing the titles like Amie is doing. If I were to ask Gerrick to do that, he’d have a flailing fit of fury!
November 6th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
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