Sunday, August 10, 2008

Starting School

I am sad that tomorrow is the first day of school. I don't know where the summer has gone. I feel like I didn't get to really spend the quality time with the kids that I was hoping for. Seems like I was just writing the post about all the things that I wanted to do with them. One of the things that we did do was the reading competition. We decided at the beginning of summer we would all see who could read the most books. So we made this cute little caterpillar face and with each book finished we would write the book title and add to its body.
After this whole summer I am proud to say the winner is Makenna. She and I actually were the only ones that ended up reading whole books. Mine technically were much longer and would probably be more pages than hers, but I am letting her win as any good mother would do. So as you can see by the pictures we created quite a big caterpillar . So tomorrow while the kids are all at school I will take it sadly down. It was something fun for us to do and I hope that she liked it. I know it helped her with her reading skills!
I am sure that I will have good things to report about the first day of school. They all seem to be excited. I am a little sad. At least kade will be home with me. He starts preschool after labor day. I will be excited for the old routine school life. I am getting an injection in my back and then returning back to work next week. I hope that it helps. I did find out that I have fractured my back at some point. Who knew. I always thought that if you broke your back you would know exactly when it happens. That is not the case for me. I am looking forward to getting better soon!



8 comments:

Jann said...

Awesome idea to get your kids to read. I am going to try that next year. My kids still have two weeks before school starts. I am dreading it. I like being on my own schedule. I hope your kids had a great first day.

Marcie Ashton said...

What a good mom you are! If I had even thought up a cool idea, I probably never would have followed through on it--so two thumbs up to you!

Kristine said...

Thats a really cute idea... might have to steal it. We need all the help we can get in that department.

M + L said...

Way cute idea! Except I would totally lose that race because I only read when I want to. It's not my favorite hobby in the world. But when I do read, I actually enjoy it. Maybe when I get out of school, I will read more.

Most Mom's are glad their kids are back in school and I think it's so sweet you're sad. You can tell you love your kids a bunch. Very sweet.

Lets do lunch SOON! I leave 2 weeks from today.

Tueller Family said...

Cute idea, I just might have to copy it. My older girls are really into the Twilight series right now. I can't get them to stop reading. Do you think the catapillar idea would get Chase to want to read (JK)? I wish I would of thought of something 10 years ago to get him to want to read.

Anonymous said...

I love your reading idea. I definetly have to give that a try.

I'm sorry to hear about your back...how frustrating that is! I hope the injection works for you.

Jenn said...

I love the caterpillar idea for reading! How much fun!!! I have been reading a lot (well, more than I have in a long time) and have really been enjoying it. Right now, I'm reading Marley and Me. Such a cute book and makes me laugh- it makes me think of Casper (I miss that dog!). Hope the kids had a great first week back to school!

Jana said...

I was wondering if you wouldn't mind me posting one of the pictures of your book worm. I wanted to share it with some other summer ideas that I am putting together. I really loved this one, and I already have the boys excited about it. I don't have to use the picture, but I wanted to make sure you were OK with it if I did. Thanks for sharing it, so that I have something to look forward to this summer.