Aside from having very active days both Anika and Dante have been avid readers this summer. For Anika we’ve been sticking to award winning best seller books and for Dante series chapter books that interest him and he can read on his own. His skills just jumped by leaps and bounds from last summer and that was not necessarily attributable to his kindergarden teacher. She certainly encouraged him along the way but he was generally way ahead of the curve from what she was teaching. His decoding skills were just phenomenal and before you knew it at this time last year he was just reading. His first book was Are You my Mother by Dr. Seuss and it just went from there. It also helped that he has an unlimited focused attention span and he doesn’t give up easily. The goal has been a chapter a night but it’s often been more. Anika has been known to stay up to the wee hours reading because the book is so good and Dante can read upto 3 or four in one shot. Since Anika’s typically free to sleep in as long as she needs to we usually just let her read as long as she wants.

Here’s Dante’s reads so far:
The Search for Missing Bones

The School Skeleton

and currently on:
The Jaguar’s Jewel

and here’s Anika’s list:
Princess Academy

The Tale of Despereaux

My Side of the Mountain

Ingo

and currently on:
The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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