Happy Tuesday Readers!!!!

How is everyone today?  It is sunny and 85 degrees here today.  A perfect summer day for a picnic, time at the pool, or sitting on your deck or patio with a good book.  I hope you are enjoying the first few days of summer with your children and grandchildren and planning your Summer book reading or Summer Book Club.  I shared the other day about doing An American Girl Book Club.  Today I am going to share more ideas for Book Clubs for Children.  I did a book club one year with my students during the year and they read more and enjoyed it a lot.

The first one I have shared some of the books with you before but these are great books and boys and girls both would love reading these books.  They are exciting and have great stories about america and other interesting places.  Of course, I am talking about the books by Mary Pope Osborne.  She has written quite a few books in the series of the Magic Treehouse Books.   Oh what wonderful and exciting tales she tells through the eyes of Jack and Annie. You can get all of them that your children want to read at the local library or bookstore.  I have a link to the Magic Treehouse Site to share with you.  There are so many things you can do with this series and your children for a book club this summer.

http://www.magictreehouse.com/

I hope you will do this with your children ( boys and girls both love the Magic Treehouse books.  I will share another idea for a book club on Thursday.  Enjoy starting a Book CLub with your children or grandchildren.  Happy Reading!!!!

Hello My Friends!!!

My post for today is to give you an idea for a Girl's Book Club.  In fact I have two ideas but I will only give one for today. The idea I have for today is to use the American Girl books for a club this summer.  They have books about the Girl of the Year, Historical American Girls, and American Girl Mysteries.  You could pick a genre such as the Historical American Girls and start with 4 or 5 girls.  The girls could read the assigned chapters and then meet together to discuss the book and play games related to the book.  Also, if the girls happen to have American Girl dolls they could bring them along.

So check out the plan below for one book you could start with and then you could make up new ideas for each new chapter or chapters.

American Historical Girls

1.   Plan the first session as a chance to preview the book.  Also, you could make cute invitations  to invite the other girls for the Book Club.

2. When the girls get together for their first meeting have them pick a leader for each section of this book.

3. There are games on the American Girl website that you could use  and other ideas and of course the books are listed there too.

4. Be sure and assign someone to lead the discussion for the next meeting and pick a meeting place .

5.  Be sure and  plan a snack for each meeting.  You know children love snacks.

6.  Let your daughter or granddaughter help with all the plans and enjoy the club together.

Have fun and be sure and let me know how the Book Club goes.

Happy First Day of Summer

Link for the American Girl Site

http://www.americangirl.com/index.php

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Hello My Friends!

I am sorry I haven't been here for a little while.  I have had a few health issues and I haven't had a chance much to read or to review some books for my followers.  I hope to be back now and blogging at three times a week.  So I hope you are ready for the summer and for the children and grandchildren to be around and what better time to start a Book Club for the kids or enroll them in one at your local library.

I would like to tell you why I think having your children or grandchildren join a book club this summer  is a very good thing.  As a former teacher I know how important it is for children to continue to read during the summer.  According to research from the University of Missouri shows that summer breaks can cause an average student to lose up to one month of learning but by reading 15 minutes a day children and teens can keep up skills and spark their knowledge.  So I definitely believe children need to read in the summer and be read to if they are younger to prepare them for school.  There are great Summer Reading Programs at most libraries and some schools.  If you don't find a good program where you are located then start your own Book Club.  Children love reading for rewards and for the games etc. you can do.  I will try and give you some ideas for a book club on my next post.  In the meantime check out you local library for their summer reading program and get your child or grandchild enrolled today and start their summer adventure.

See you soon with more on book clubs.