January 14-20, 2013

January14, 2013-6:15-7:30pm Tonight I read to my youngest daughter, 7yr old, Jill.  She has learned to read and very fluently for her age.  She chose a book from the library, Fancy Nancy, Hair Do's and Don'ts, I followed along as she read.  Then she asked me to finish reading the Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business book which she had started.  We began reading every other page, then I took over.  I have always loved reading to my children, now that my youngest is reading, I indulge in the time she asks me to read to her. 

I read Facebook several times throughout the day, I am not sure this counts as pleasure reading, but it is reading so I thought I would put this in my blog. 

January 16th 10:00-10:10- I read a little in the book Barnabus, it is a book from my bible study.  I have been teaching 3rd grade Wed. night bible class for the last 6+months.  We have rotated teachers, therefore I am now in the women's class.  They are reading the book Barnabus, they are well into chapter 5, so I took it upon myself to begin reading to catch up, but only read for 10 minutes.

January 18- 10:00-10:20am, 10:25-10:45am: I substituted for the Librarian.  I read a book to Kindergartners called The Three Pig Ninjas.  Normally, this book would have only taken 5 minutes to read, but before I read the story we discussed the cover of the book and how the story was similar to The Three Little Pigs.  It also had several words that I discussed with the class as I read the story.  I had to stretch the book into a 20 minute class period so there was a lot of interaction during this reading. I had two classes that I read this book to.

The pleasure reading that I did this week were to my daughter,  to Kindergarteners and my bible class.  I am not sure if my bible class counts as class reading since the class is on chapter 5 and I am just choosing to read up to chapter 5.  Typically, I would just join in at chapter 5.  I LOVE reading to my daughter, she is getting so good at reading it won't be long till she won't need me any longer.  I also enjoy substituting for the librarian because I get to read to various different classes.  These are pleasure readings in my eyes!!

The night that I read to my daughter Jill, she went to her room and began reading several other books.  I went up to her room to tell her to get ready for bed.  She insisted she read 2 more books, I told her no she needed to get to sleep, as it was past her bedtime.  The next morning, she explained to me that she read those 2 books after I went back downstairs, she used her dreamlight to see the words.  A dreamlight puts off different colored stars on the ceiling, not proper light for reading.  She LOVES to read!!  Just like my oldest daughter Jayden!