October 30 ~ Read Aloud Challenge
Debra over at Footprints in the Butter has started back with her Read Aloud Challenge Link Up. When the girls were younger we read aloud daily. We have fond memories of reading aloud as a family. Now that the girls are older I find it so much more difficult to carve out time to read aloud. I keep telling myself that I need to make reading aloud a priority for Supergirl but unfortunately, I tend to push that aside as well getting caught up in striving to teach her to read, write, and do math. It’s not that we’re not a book loving family. The 5 independent readers can all be found with a book at some point during the day and the not-yet-reading-independently-but-still-loves-books girl is frequently reminded to “put down that book.” We’ve done some reading aloud a few weeks ago. We were reading Only the Names Remain, Sing Down The Moon, and Song of Hiawatha as part of our Native America studies. About 3 weeks ago Tailorbear started Sonlight’s Core 7 (oops it was Core 7 whe