Summer Reading Club {Summer Bucket List}

Starting in June, we went to the library every Wednesday morning for preschool story time.  Following story time, we headed to the children’s section where we spent about thirty minutes perusing books.  Before leaving, each child chose two books and a DVD to borrow for the week (thankfully our library system allows each borrower to check out 99 items).  To protect our loaner materials, we kept them in a basket on top of the refrigerator out of reach for little hands.

Since library story time typically includes a craft, we haven’t done many projects at home this summer. I really enjoy crafts with the kids so I came up with one to accompany our book/ DVD rental of  Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type.  We made a cow using a paper plate, googly eyes, scraps of construction paper and glue sticks.   The majority of the crafts done at the library involve glue sticks so I thought a little practice at home was appropriate.

I always love how when given the same materials, each child’s artwork is unique.

Every night before bed, we choose two of the books to read on the sofa.  Sitting on the sofa gives everyone a decent view of the pictures.

For every 15 minutes we read to the kids, they earned a check on their Summer Reading Club chart.  Each time they filled a row on the chart, they earned a bag of prizes from the library.  We didn’t quite fill up the entire chart before the Summer Reading Club was finished, but they earned plenty of trinkets and had fun doing it.  Even though the Summer Reading Club ended, we still visit the library regularly and read daily to help the quads build vocabulary, develop early literacy skills, and use their imaginations.  Today I stumbled upon an article on Huffington Post about how reading to young children impacts brain development.

1. Movies
2. Sea Life Aquarium
3. Train ride
4. Fire station tour
5. Library story time
6. Sprayground
7. Zoo
8. Bahama Buck’s
9. Frozen yogurt
10. Community pool
11. Grill dinner outside
12. Water Table
13. Inflatable Pool
14. Sprinklers
15. Ice Cream
16. Indoor playgrounds
17. Lee’s Grilled Cheese
18. Blow bubbles
19. Chalk drawings
20. Board games
21. Play dates
22. Summer Reading Club
23. Dance classes
24. Fireworks
25. Sleep over with grandparents
26. Nature Walks
27. Bounce house
28. Popsicles
29. S’mores
30. Sparklers
31. Water pistol duels

hugs, Amber

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