Lots of reading
By C
@ShyBear88 (59342)
Sterling, Virginia
August 28, 2019 7:25am CST
Oh man the kids have a lot of reading yesterday as home work. My 7 year old age 20 minutes, our daughter wrote down 60 minute of read. Apparently she was wrong and was probably counting in 20’s because we got and email saying it’s just 20 minutes a day. The 7 year old forgot to write down he has 20 minutes for respond this week every night and just wrote down for 1 night to cover the week. I got on him about you write it every day if your teacher says every day or else you get into trouble for not writing. I signed his agenda and wrote a small note to his teacher that he did read for 20 minutes.
At bed time my poor son couldn’t do the whole 20 he was too tired and wanted to wait to do it at bed time. So I told him tomorrow read after school then you won’t be so tired trying to read at bed time or instead 10 and 10 minutes.
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@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
28 Aug 19
Reading was a battle for Little Miss at that age but when I signed her up for Reading Eggs it really helped her!
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@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
28 Aug 19
We have reading eggs. Sadly my 8 year old is dyslexic so things get flipped in her head often.
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@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
28 Aug 19
@Michellekidwell we have other reading options. The kids do love reading eggs I have it for all 3 kids.
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@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
28 Aug 19
@ShyBear88 I understand that! Glad you have Reading Eggs!
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@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
28 Aug 19
It’s just 20 minute a day that’s not hard but for some reason my silly girl wrote 40 the day before yesterday and then yesterday she wrote 60 minutes. So I guess she wanted to keep young it by 20 minutes. That want what her teacher assigned and I guess her teacher never looked to see what she wrote to correct her.
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@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
28 Aug 19
They haven even had a fully week they had 2 days last week and this week is 4 days, then they have another 4 days next week. So their first full week isn’t till the 2 full week of September. We typically read before bed but when mommy is solo it takes longer getting through 2 kids 20 minutes reading. It took over an hour to get both kids done. After they brushed teeth, and put PJ’s on.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 Aug 19
Aww, the poor little fella. Yeah, 10 and 10 might work better for him.
@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
28 Aug 19
Yes, I have no problem with him reading all 20 minutes he just picked the wrong night it was just me last night if both me and his dad was home the 20/20 isn’t hard we each take a kid at the same time. So he had to sit through his sited reading 20 and then his ownself
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 Aug 19
@ShyBear88 Ah, well I can understand where he might have gotten bored and frustrated then. I was not a big fan of reading when I was little, and having to sit through a sibiling's reading first would have frustrated me too.
@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
28 Aug 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum yes. I’m sure both will have reading today as well for homework so I’ll have there dad have them read 10-15 minutes and we can finish the rest at bed time.
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@JESSY3236 (22199)
• United States
28 Aug 19
Reading will go by fast if they are reading something interesting.
@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
28 Aug 19
It wasn’t about to begin interesting they just both wanted to read there 20 minutes each at bed time which makes it 40 minutes taking an hour or more to get through it all when you have 3 kids to get ready for bed.
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