5-A-Day Books Week 2.

I did really well the first week of the 5-A-Day book challenge. The second week hasn't gone as well... mostly because I can't get Gabriella away from "The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear" book. She insists on reading it at least once a day. Since strawberries are in season we eat them almost everyday and she's always quoting parts of the book while she eats them. Every time we sit down to read our new set of books she goes and grabs the strawberry book and brings it to me. It's hard to say no to that. :)

So the books I choose for week 2 are

The first day we read The Foot Book Jayden started quoting it while we were driving in the car. I was amazed at how quickly he picked it up. His other favorite this week is Jump Frog Jump. He actually told me tonight that it's his favorite book. Another book he quotes really well is Miss Mary Mack. I used to do the hand clapping game singing miss mary mack when I was in elementary school, so when Jordan brought this book home I was really excited to teach it to the kids. Jayden has the first 3 or 4 pages memorized and Gabriella loves it as well. She calls it "Mack" and can pick it out off the book shelf and bring it to me.

We didn't sit down everyday and read all five books, but we read at least one of them a day. I love this challenge because I really see how it effects my kids and how much they enjoy it as well. I think I'm going to try and find more of the classic Dr. Seuss books at the thrift store this weekend since The Foot Book was such a big hit!

The other thing I love about this challenge is reading to my kids the books that I grew up reading or having read to me. I hope as they get older they'll have a deep love and appreciation for reading.