Summer Reading Week 4

Last week I read:


How Full is Your Bucket
The Fault in Our Stars
Timmy Failure Mistakes Were Made


....And these picture books:

Reading with Dad
Chrysanthemum
City Dog, Country Frog

I also abandoned The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles. I didn't get into it enough to pose an opinion on it. It came due at the library and has holds. I decided though, that I wasn't into it enough to keep accumulating fines on it.

This week I plan to read:

The Red Necklace
Hattie Ever After

...and a few picture books

I'm also still reading:
The Everlasting Meal
And The Mountains Echoed



I'm at 49 km with walking. I wimped out a few days last week because I was so tired from our hike. Perhaps I should do more hiking though. It's an amazing workout!

Summer Reading Week 3

Last week I read:

Wild Boy (Mary Losure)
Hannah's Suitcase (well, sort of)
The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish

This week I plan to read:

The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (Julie Andrews Edwards)
Timmy Failure Mistakes Were Made (Stephan Pastis)
...and a few picture books

I'm also still reading:
The Everlasting Meal
And The Mountains Echoed

I'm a little behind I'd say!

I'm doing okay with walking though.....should be past 50 km by mid-week, I think!

Summer Reading Week 2

I've really been enjoying reading with Peirce yesterday and today. He has a goal to read all the Harry Potter books this summer and is just finishing the first book.

This past week I met a wonderful woman (again). I met her before at the International Reading Association meeting that I went to. She is a huge fan of picture books and really stirred up in me a new desire to find lots of great picture books to use whenever I'm teaching. Luckily, while I was marking PATs this week, I got a chance to read a number of picture books. People kept bringing picture books to put on the tables in the foyer. Now and then I'd take a break and go read one or two. It was great. So this week I read quite a few:

• The Three Little Pigs, an Architectural Story
• Hey! Wake Up!
• Little Black Book of Colors
• The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish
• Snoring Beauty
• Great Estimations
• Greater Estimations
• My Grandmother's Clock
• Reading With Dad
• City Dog, Country Frog

I also finished Sunwing. Another great read! You can read all about those great books on my book blog.

Along with some more great picture books, here is my list of what I hope to read this week:

 

Summer Reading Week 1

It's almost time! School has come to a sad end. With the flooding in Calgary our last week of school a wash out. School was cancelled last Friday while the flooding was happening, and then Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week in order for people to deal with all the after effects, as well as to encourage people to stay home so the disaster relief folks could deal with the emergency. It's been quite an experience. It is still far from over. We will be recovering from this for months, perhaps even years.

A lot of great reading teachers that I follow really immerse themselves in reading in the summers. It totally makes sense to me. There is nothing like a string of lazy days in your favorite reading spot, pouring through books that have been sitting in your 'to be read' pile for way too long. I'm not sure if I can totally keep up to their book a day pace, but I'm going to try!

I plan to read plenty of picture books, kids chapter books, some professional development reading and catch up on some of the adult reading I keep putting off. I am not officially into my summer vacation yet, but I am getting started today! Yea for summer reading!

What I plan to read this week: