Book Club

So this summer my friend Karen had a brilliant idea. To keep the kids reading, we decided to do a book club!  Every two weeks the kids are assigned a book and then we get them all together to do an activity. So far the older boys have read Balto and My Father's Dragon (don't freak out at the thickness of the book Jake is holding in the photo, it's a series of three all bound together and he only had to read the first one!), and the younger boys have read Al the Alligator and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.  Next we plan on reading ABC Mysteries, The Absent Author, and we'll finish out the summer reading Amelia Bedelia and Fly Guy.  It's been really fun- a real motivation to read- and the kids have loved it!  For Balto, the kids visited Vegas's Natural History Museum (unfortunately I didn't get any pictures) and for this week's activity we went swimming at the Willows Community Pool. I brought some sweet YW helpers to keep my 5, esp the twins, safe and we all had a great time!