I’ll be up front with you here….I promise not to have a theme for every day of the week. I’m a relatively scheduled, organized person, but that makes even me a little crazy. However, with my background in education, Teaching Tuesday was just too good to pass up. So, every Tuesday I’ll do a post on a teaching idea or tip that I’ve used or heard about.
Since I’m just beginning my blog, I have to start with the most basic concept of all. Read to your child. Start as early as possible and don’t stop. This one came naturally for me because I love to read. I know my Mom read stacks and stacks of books to us as children. I read to both of my girls while they were in the womb.
Once they were born, we established a habit of reading two books (or stories) before naptime each day and another book, along with a story from a Bible storybook, at bedtime. Many days we read more than that, but at least I knew we had those times scheduled for reading even if the rest of our day was too hectic to fit it in.
We’ve moved past naptime now (except for me some days!), but we continue our bedtime reading every night. The neat thing is that I’m getting to re-read some of my childhood favorites. What a joy to see my girls as enthralled with them as I was! I read a great article yesterday from Amy at Literacy Launchpad regarding treating books as family heirlooms. Go here to read her post.
I’d love to hear some of your book suggestions. I have a 3 1/2 year old who is pretty advanced with her language. I am not sure what kinds of books I should be reading her. Basically, I am SOOO itching to being able to read chapter books with her!!
Thanks so much for stopping by to read my blog! Although it’s not the total thrust of my blog, can you tell I’m passionate about reading?! I hope to do future posts on age-specific books, but here’s what I can think of off the top of my head.
At that age, I remember reading some of the following to my girls: Little Critter books by Mercer Mayer, Dr. Seuss books (classics like The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham – I don’t do so well with the ones that have lots of nonsensical words), a lot of the Little Golden Books (The Pokey Little Puppy, The Shy Little Kitten, The Saggy Baggy Elephant, etc.) They also enjoyed some of the popular series like Madeline and Curious George. You could probably even do short chapter books like the Little Bear series and Frog and Toad.
Sorry – that was probably information overload!
On Friday, I’m going to do a post on ways we’re able to get books for less to add to our collection.
Have a great evening!