Around the dinner table our conversation very often is sharing what adventures we have been transported to through the books we have been reading. There has been lots of reading happening, especially in these cold dark days. One of our conversations led to wondering how many books our family thought we could read in two months? or a year? With some more exploring around this challenge we decided it would be fun to start off such an idea with company. We invited our homeschooling group to join us in this challenge.
We met at our house; readers, pre readers and those who are being read to. We set goals for our families, how many books we would read over two months and then added our totals together. With 9 families our combined goal is 1200 books in 8 weeks. After we worked out the specifics of numbers we set to work on some books of our own. Each person made a book of their own to record the books they read and perhaps a few words about it, or a rating of sorts.
We also made tree branches of our own, to place leaves for each of the books a family member reads. When we come back together for our celebration we will assemble our reading tree as a visual of our accomplished challenge.
I better get reading!
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it's amazing how MUCH you read once you've decided to list the books...
just the simple act of counting my (partial) list of 2010 has resulted in me reading 9 + books this month alone
sebastian was inspired by hearing about elias reading so much i think. since our last visit, he has been reading so much more - and feeling rather proud about it! :)
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