Forever In Search Of my Muse

~~~~ Son is in 5th grade and the school he is at is doing a monthly reading calendar where you have to keep track of how many minutes are read every day and they are graded by the number of minutes accumulated during the month. Last month Son read over 1200 mins. Giving him double what he needed for an A+.

~~~~ Every day that Son is here is with me, 5 days a week and every other weekend, we set the stop watch on my cell phone and read a chapter of one of the Harry Potter books. Right now we are working on the third book of the series. i can see a huge improvement in his reading aloud and in his self confidence from when we started this in the summer before we even knew of the school assignment to read every day.

~~~~ We now have three copies of the Harry Potter series here in the house Son's, Roommate's, and mine. Roommate and i had our own copies before i moved in and then we each got a copy of the last book when it came out after i moved in so that both of us had finished our own collections. Then when Son started reading i was letting him use my copy but it was hard to help him with the words that he was stuck on without leaning over him or taking the book from him and we kept loosing our place when this happened so i bought him papper back copies of each book which are smaller in size but the page numbers match so we can both read along as the other reads. Plus as he gets older if he wants to read them again he can and he will have his own copy to do so.

~~~~ Once we are done with the Harry Potter series we are going to go on to the Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini, Eragon, , and Brisingr. While we wait for the fourth of that series to come out. This is another series that we have three copies of each book because of the same reasons. We are just waiting for the thrid to come out in paper back. We are also thinking about reading the Philip Pullman books "His Dark Materials". Then if there is still time in the school year we will have to decide what to read after that because i am not sure. Though we still need to pick up a lot of the "Dark Materials" books.

~~~~ This is a great way for Son and i to spend time together doing something other then watching TV. He seems to really enjoy reading when we do it this way and hardly argues about having to read. Roommate is usually up in his room or still at work when we read so it is just Son and me.