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conuly1. Don't have any plans of academics over the summer.
2. Don't even like summer reading lists because they figure summer should be fun.
So asking Evangeline to cut herself down to one page a day instead of three or more is probably not that unreasonable. (Besides, the faster she works, the faster we have to buy new workbooks. Those things are expensive!)
Not that she listens, so it's all a bit moot. You know, she was like this when reading first clicked with her. It's not that we didn't want her to read (well, I mean, I kinda didn't - teaching Ana to read was a huge mistake :P, now she reads all the time and we can't pry the books out of her hands long enough to make her brush her teeth and she READS AHEAD!!! when I'm reading chapter books with them, which is just annoying), but did she have to do that all the time? With us? And throw herself over her books whenever we suggested that maybe three hours of reading was sufficient? So maybe once she works her way through this workbook the thrill will be gone?
2. Don't even like summer reading lists because they figure summer should be fun.
So asking Evangeline to cut herself down to one page a day instead of three or more is probably not that unreasonable. (Besides, the faster she works, the faster we have to buy new workbooks. Those things are expensive!)
Not that she listens, so it's all a bit moot. You know, she was like this when reading first clicked with her. It's not that we didn't want her to read (well, I mean, I kinda didn't - teaching Ana to read was a huge mistake :P, now she reads all the time and we can't pry the books out of her hands long enough to make her brush her teeth and she READS AHEAD!!! when I'm reading chapter books with them, which is just annoying), but did she have to do that all the time? With us? And throw herself over her books whenever we suggested that maybe three hours of reading was sufficient? So maybe once she works her way through this workbook the thrill will be gone?
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Date: 2011-07-11 04:58 am (UTC)There are also lots of people who send their kids off to sleep-away camps all summer. Or put their kids in summer school to prepare them for the next school year. It's all about who your peers are. And there's a huge class component to summer vacation, no matter how you look at it.
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Date: 2011-07-11 04:15 am (UTC)Did you ever get a copy of Rufus M by Eleanor Estes? That is a great summer book.
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Date: 2011-07-11 04:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-12 02:24 am (UTC)LOL, I was a reader-ahead of read-aloud books, because having to wait for someone else to get on with it was just annoying, when I could read far faster and longer than they could talk. As long as those who read ahead keep their mouths shut about spoilers, it ought not to be a problem. Some people just process text a lot more easily than they process verbal speech.
I highly recommend Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain, Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series, and the 'Green Knowe' books, the aiuthor of which I'm not recalling. Also The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It by Ellen Nesbitt. Your girlies are probably still a bit young for The Hobbit or The Once and Future King, but it won't be long before they're old enough.
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Date: 2011-07-12 03:52 am (UTC)Well, that's Ana's problem in a nutshell. I say, we have a couple thousand books in the house (and whatever she says on the subject, she has NOT read them all!), she can find something else. Or, yeah, not let me know she's read ahead. (I'm not really that annoyed so long as she keeps it to herself, but when she goes "Oh, I already know this, oh I already know that" as I'm reading, she gets herself gently walloped with whatever is to hand, mostly the book.)