Reading Chick

I just remembered I signed up to do this! This week is also the last week of our summer reading club, The Great Reading Experiment. We went with mad science this year and it’s been fun and well received… mama’s love their science! 

9:00 – 12:15  My day was spent cleaning off my desk.  I did some scheduling conflicts and spent time on twitter.  This October we’ll be holding a children’s literature bracket and we brainstormed some villains and their taglines: White Witch, always winter no Christmas; Cruella DeVil, puppy killer; Voldemort, out to destroy all mankind.  She came up with twenty names… we’ll whittle that down for our bracket voting.  it should be fun.

1:00 – 3.00  On desk.  It’s a beautiful day in suburban Chicago so I imagine most people are at the pool.  We only have six days til the end of summer reading.  Mysteriously, I was just given the May 2010 copy of Booklist so I am ordering books while talking villain talk and helping with SRC prizes.

While on desk, I was asked for happy CDs for an infant which I took to mean non-lullaby CDs.  both Raffi’s Singable Song CDs were checked out.  So, Barenaked Ladies Snack Time, Best Toddler Tunes vol. 2, Rhinoceros Tap by Boynton.  I also had a RA question (normally we’ll have quite a few in one day — it really is nice out). A fourth grader looking for the next great book.

She most recently read and enjoyed:

1. The Meanest Doll in the World by Ann B. Martin
2. Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
3. The Eragon trilogy by Paolini which she liked the most.  When asked why it was the adventure (common in all three titles), but really liked the length of the Paolini books — I think long is the new genre in children’s literature.  She was able to conclude that she likes long books because she can take her time reading them.  It’s a good reason.

After a few more open ended questions, we settled on the Charlie Bone (aka Children of the Red King) books by Nimmo.

3.00 – 5.00  With the evening crew here, I handled a few more scheduling questions and then settled into more journal reading.  I had VOYA and a few others I went through.  (Didn’t finish Booklist though, I must have done more talking than I realized…)  That’s it for me for Monday, July 26.

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