Books, Blogs and Cheese · Thursday October 18, 2007 by Rose
This morning SJ worked on his maths upgrade. JJ received a Silver certificate from the Reading Champions , together with a badge.
I was pleased to see how chuffed he was with that, and even more pleased when he asked what he had to do to get a gold! I explained that the idea was that these were for boys who had gone out of their way to encourage others to read, perhaps by setting up a school reading club.
So, he decided to set up a new blog. Its for any HE kid to come along and sign up to, and the idea is for them to post book reviews. The aim being to encourage each other to read new books.
Fabulous!
From my point of view, not only is this encouraging him to think about what he has read, to put it into words, and thereby improving his english skills, but also it is opening him up to many other HE kids. Win win situation!
And the icing on the cake? SJ was so miffed at not getting a certificate (as reading really isn’t his thing) that he signed up for the blog and promptly posted a review on a book he’d read! If it leads to him reading more, and thinking about books, I shall be extremely pleased!
In the afternoon we had another HE family over. The lad is 6, and got on very well with them all. They set up a great imaginary game, with a police station and a house (apparently!).
In the evening we were watching Cheaper By the Dozen. Ok, so its a cheesy film, but there was one line that really stuck with me.
When the dad goes in to give up his dream job, in order to be there for the kids, when asked if he was sure he was doing the right thing, he said “if I screw up on raising my children, nothing I ever do will be worth it”.
Amen to that.
