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Basic Homeschooling Information |
Reading Train Write
your child’s name in the middle of the train
engine. If you like, you can also
put a 1” x 1” photo of your child in the cab. The engine then is cut out and posted on
the wall. Even at age seven, kids are
excited about “being the engineer.” Next
print and cut out a small stack of boxcars. Book
titles can be printed in the center of the cars. Kids can be permitted to color the boxcars
and make their trains longer every time they read a book. For
variety, another year you could make a “bookworm.” The head would be a circle with eyes,
antenna, and the child’s name. The
worm’s body would be made from circles cut from colored construction
paper: one circle per book read. A friend had a variation on this theme: she made a large “tree” covering most of the dining-room wall. The “trunk” was about three feet high; the green “leafy” portion of the tree went nearly to the ceiling. For every book her daughter read, she added an “apple” to the tree. |