We had a fantastic morning at the Evergreen Library hosting our second {and hopefully annual!} iVillage & PBS Kids Summer Reading Party. We've all heard the crazy statistics about how much knowledge a child can lose over the summer -- up to two-and-a-half months worth!
PBS and iVillage have teamed up again this year to help prevent that dreaded summer slide. If you haven't yet signed up, get thee to the community challenge page pronto! Beginning Monday, challenge coach (and creator of the show Super Why) Angela Santomero will be sending out daily tips, ideas and projects to keep the kids engaged in reading activities while they're out of school.
To kick the program off, we invited our friends to join us at the library for story time and activities. The library was also kicking off their summer reading program today, so the librarian was happy to read several books and tell us all about their One World, Many Stories theme for the Kids Summer Reading Club. (Check your own local library to see what they're doing this summer!)
The kids picked up Dinosaur Train books, reading bracelets, activity books and more from PBS, Scholastic and iVillage.
They brought books to trade with a friend...
...and made reading journals to track their progress.
Parents shared ideas for keeping the kids excited about reading and writing.
Some of the ideas included~
- Writing in our school journal about the events we do over the summer.
- Keeping books in the car for longer trips. Putting coupons for fun treats/activities inside the books, to be found by the child randomly.
- Keep a travel journal about your summer vacation.
- Pre-read to stuffies and siblings.
Being the over-achiever I am, (Okay, maybe it's due in part to my
Happy reading everyone!
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