Some summer reading clubs for your children this summer.

[D L and K's Mom]

How can you help your children maintain or improve their reading levels during the summer? It's simple. Keep them reading. Don't forget to have your children read over the summer. Barnes and Noble and Build A Bear both have great summer reading programs for your children. Barnes and Noble have themed their program around the " A Series of Unfortunate Events" books. There is a journal sheet they must fill out and you sign that can be turned in for FREE books. The books read DO NOT need to be purchased from B and N they can be library books etc. Check out your local Barnes and Noble for the reading journal or the link to the website.
Build A Bear is having children read and when the children have read three books they get a bookmark. When the children have read six books they get a certificate and a $5.00 gift card to use in the Build a Bear store.
Check out your local library, most of them also run some great summer reading programs. See the website below.
Also, check out your local Senators website. Some Senators run their own summer reading clubs. I am putting the link for NY Senator George Maziarz's reading club at the bottom.
KEEP READING!!!! Can you tell I am a first grade teacher...hee hee.

http://www.senate.state.ny.us/sws/read/maziarz_reading.html

N.Y. State Senator George Maziarz
Reading Club link

http://www.buildabear.com/lp/SummerReading2006/

Build a Bear Summer Reading Reading Link


http://www.barnesandnoble.com/subjects/children/summer_reading_kids/index.asp?z=y&cds2Pid=1669&linkid=689404

Barnes and Noble Summer Reading Club link

 

[Katy Belle]

Thanks for the info! My boys last day of school was Thursday and we started our summer reading Friday! Their school sends home a reading log and they are expected to read 5 days a week, taking two weeks off during the summer. It does make a huge difference and is a good use of their time. We are also doing some Math this summer. They lose a lot of the comp. skills in the summer!
Katy Former teacher-full time mom

 

[D L and K's Mom]

I think you can fill out 2 reading journals for B and N. Check with your local store for all the details.

 

[barkley]

there is a link on barnes and nobles site-go to the children's book section and it's on the right hand side. you can print up the journal and instructions along with associated activities and a parents/teachers guide.

 

[D L and K's Mom]

Thank you, now you made it even easier!!!!

 

[aprilgail2]

Our school has a forced summer reading thing which I detest. In fact I had her do it already before school is even out to get it over with. She loves reading but for school they have to do a report thing with it so it makes it painful. With the library she is in a program where they need to read 600 pages on their own by Saturday, August 12 to reach their club goal. All children who successfully participate will be invited to the Reading Club’s Grand Finale on Saturday, August 19, featuring Jester Jim.
She loves the finales. Last year they had a magician. We usually have all the books read seh needs to in a few weeks to complete that one.

 

[D L and K's Mom]

but each classroom teacher send home a list of "Good Books" so the parents will have some sort of a guide for the kids. I have so many reading abilities in my class it is hard. We just really try to encourage reading (reading in any way shape or form, being read to, reading independenty etc) so the children have some reading practice. Our library has some really great summer reading programs. The children's librarian came into my class last week to tell the children about them. It is a pirate theme.
My older daughter attends the H.S. here and I have to say I am very disappointed with the way the whole summer reading requirements are handled. She did the required reading and the "reports" that went along with the reading and they were never even collected. When I asked in the fall I was told it was each individual teachers choice! Grrrrr. I encourage reading over the summer and I was glad she read but we had to go buy the books (all were taken from the library and we were traveling I didnt want to take library books) and they were not books she was really interested in. She worked really hard on her first High School reports (a commercial and a poster) and then they were never even graded. Frustrating. We will do it again this year and I hope they are collected and graded like they are supposed to be. We should be getting the list soon. Thanks for letting me VENT....I feel better....

 

[Just2554]

My middle/high school always had a summer reading program where you had to read two or three books and when you went back to school in the fall, you wrote a two-page analytical paper on them. I always thought this was a good idea; many kids now-a-days could use the practice on their writing skills. My younger sister will be going into 8th grade in the fall and this summer she has to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and October Sky.

I loved summer reading; I just finished my first year of college and I still do. The past couple of years, I've themed my summer reading (like the loser I am). Last year it was the expatriate circle of the Jazz/WWI Age (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinback, etc.). This summer, it's all about Russian literature; I'm reading Anna Karenina right now!

I like that these places have summer reading programs; keep your kids reading!

 

[D L and K's Mom]

manuals for toddler toys, directions and recipies for quick summer meals,directions to sports camps etc... Only kidding. I love that you are reading some great literature. I went through a Jane Austin phase a couple of months ago. Re-read some old favorites. I am now reading lots of historical fiction. Dreaming of being a Queen. Have to plow through some education books about ADHD and Autism for my class next year. I enjoy the summer and reading outside when I can fit it in. Youngest DD is old enough to sit and look at books with me. LAst year we put up our tent and sat in it for 1/2 hour a day if we could and read. It was FUN! It gave me some well needed down time.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

My summer reading is whatever major book becomes a film (HP and Da Vinco Code for the moment)

 

[D L and K's Mom]