Although I had good intentions of registering both children on the first day of summer, it wasn't until the last "reporting day" of the TD Summer Reading Club that I managed to go into a library branch. I obtained a notebook for each, a sheet of stickers, and a preschool pamphlet with colouring page.
I've decided it's one "club" that they can join every summer. It gets us in the habit of reading - to purposefully set aside some time to choose some books from our own library, read them together, record the titles & authors, and choose a sticker for the day. It's a memento to keep for later, this small passport-sized "this notebook belongs to" log of books that they enjoyed when they were 2 and 4 years old.
It completely suits me that junior kindergarten has some projects, but doesn't really have homework, except that they encourage reading every day, and may even provide a new book every school night for this purpose. There is a weekly school library visit, and a book is borrowed each week. It's the cultivation of these habits, instituted at school and encouraged at home, that I think will create not just competence and confidence in reading, but a love of reading, for its own sake.
Today, Tyler and I read the Eyewitness book set, a book each on Insects, Reptiles, Amphibians, Mammals, and Dinosaurs. He saved the Dinosaur one for last.
Ashley chose Sandra Boynton's "Happy Birthday, Little Pookie" and Barbara Reid's "Welcome, Baby!"
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