Summer is in full swing here and my kids have embraced the library’s summer reading program, as usual. My 8 year old has already filled his first sheet for a prize and is well into his second. He has an additional carrot as his teacher challenged the rising fourth-graders to read 600 minutes by August 10, with a pizza party for those who succeed. The 5 year old isn’t too far behind, though later bedtimes have cut into his reading time a bit more than his brother’s.
How much summer reading is accomplished in your house? Do later bedtimes due to later sunsets and no morning commitments mean more or less reading? I linked up to my post on the subject below and invite you to share your kids’ summer reading adventures.
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Our bedtimes are still fairly firm, because my son will NOT sleep late and then he still gets overly tired, but the lazy mornings and lots more free time does equal more reading time. Otherwise, they’d be on the TV or computer all day long, so some reading breaks are good.
Mine also tend to get in many hours of reading on vacations, especially car trips. They’re both off to a pretty good start.
I hear you on not sleeping late! Alex has to be up early for swim practice so bedtimes can’t be too late here either. Yesterday was our first full day home and I had a houseful of boys the whole day so not a lot of reading there. While I’ll allow more Wii/TV that during the school year I’m definitely going to limit it or they’d be on it all day too.
Alex read a bit on our road trip but he gets carsick so that makes it harder.
YES! I’m with both of you on the sleeping. Neither of mine will sleep past 7:00 so we all still go to bed fairly early. I too am more flexible on screens during the summer but a daily “quiet time” makes for plenty of reading opportunities!
This sounds like such an interesting book!
My 12-year-old is reading Ender’s Game and *loving* it. I’m so happy to share one of my own childhood favorites with her. In all honesty, the reading level is still a bit above her, but she’s so motivated (wants to know what happens next) that she’s sticking to it. Hurray for finding a book she loves!
My 16-year-old is between books at the moment. I have to help him find something… it’s never easy.
Summer hasn’t officially started for us. This is the last week of school, though, so it’s coming soon.
Don’t you love when they find books they love? Even better when it’s a childhood favorite of your own. 16 is a tough age, good luck finding books for him. Elizabeth and I reviewed some YA books for boys a while ago, the review is at YA Books for Boys. Elizabeth has a teen boy so she can probably make some recs too.
Oh, thanks, good idea. I had taken note of iBoy previously (because of that review), but forgotten about it. I’ll look for that.
I will getting my post up some time today on what my kiddos are up to. Since I work my grandmother takes them to the library for me. Together each child and I have put together a list of “must reads” (mostly classics). So they take the list with them. I know then that they aren’t reading things that I would rather they not.