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We have a kind of combination thing here -- the library has its own, but it also accepts the school's sheet. The school's sheet wants 20 minutes a day, five days a week, and each month's reading log gets an entry into a drawing for prizes. The library asks you to sign up for your own goal, and then has prizes along the way and drawings at the end for bigger prizes.
I'm totally with ultra and DeeDee here -- I find it impossible to get myself to bother with logging things, and eventually at the end of summer we fudge the whole thing. Assuming they have actually been reading. I allowed DS10 one log's worth last summer because he read some, but not a lot, but DD7 got all of them because she reads all the time. I just can't manage to fill things out and keep track as they go, when I'm at work all day. This year I told them it's their own responsibility to fill things out, and you can guess how well that's working out.
You would think that being able to turn in each two weeks' log for free ice cream at the local store would be enough to get them to do it, but no.
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I sent a note to the school librarian on the last day of the reading program at school this year that said, "DD9 has read for at least 900 minutes since {start date}," and that was good enough for her to get her reward.
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Wow, that is crazy...lots of work and just too much monitoring. DD always has her head in a book. She will sit in the bathroom for an hour even if I let her. Not to mention after I leave her room at night. I have no clue how long she reads then, although I have had to go in at midnight in the past when I heard noise and take the book away (she's 6). Out library just lets the kids set their personal goal and they get a prize for reaching it, and for participating. DD set her goal at 60 chapter books. She's ambitious. Dh are supplementing the prizes on our own with things she really wants. A dollar for every 5 read, her own milk shake from a local restaurant that makes AMAZING ones, for every 10. She just finished White Fang, so not short little chapter books either. They also have a sheet where you mark off time read, but I am so not doing that. There is no way I could ever keep up with every 15 minutes she reads. Seriously, I could just go ahead and cross out everything on those after a week because she reads that much. If I had to estimate yesterday, I would say she read over 3 hours, I do know she read at least 250 pages yesterday. LOL, the library probably wouldn't believe me if I wrote that down. This is basically what we are doing. DD seems to crave the bubble sheet, though. She uses it as a bookmark along with a crayon. Now that I think about it, it is a very four-year-old thing to do. If she wasn't keeping track herself, I probably would not bother. I'll probably never get around to doing the Barnes&noble one, because that requires me to write the titles and recommendations down.
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I miss the library and school programs. My DD is 15 - almost 16 now. I just wanted to join in. My daughter and I are doing our second Mother/Daughter book - "Joy Luck Club". We are going to study China and concubines (not something I'd do with a younger child).
We are going to watch the movie and also "Raise the Red Lantern". This is the way we celebrate books now at her age. Yes!! DD loves Amy Tan-- are you enjoying it? As for tracking reading-- I made up a notebook that I kept with a box when DD was younger-- she simply put in what she had finished reading. A couple times a week (er-- when the box got full, basically), I'd record the ISBN, title, pages, estimated reading level, and genre of the book. We never tracked TIME because of how fast she reads, and frankly, the volume. She topped many THOUSANDS of pages each month for the years that I kept track of it. I stopped doing it by the time she was seven, but I still have the records. She's read all but a handful of the Newbery books (honorees as well as winners) and those mostly because they are out of print. That was a goal one year. I had to laugh about the plastic cockroach. Oh my gosh, my DD would come home with some of the weirdest things from the library's program. LOL. 
Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.
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We do a couple local library summer reading programs. Both our girls still get excited about drawing from the prizes and I try to sway them from the "junk" but not always successfully. The big prize, for anyone that reaches the goal, is either a free entry to the local water park or free food certificates, so it is worth it to us. We also do the state summer reading challenge that the governor puts on.
Last year we did the Barnes & Noble program and received free books. One was Apple Fractions and I can't remember the others.
We have also looked into (at one time or another) the Books-A-Million, Scholastic, Half Price Books, Book-It, Pottery Barn, Sylvan, American Girl, and Amazon reading programs. We haven't participated in any of these yet.
I just figure if they are going to be reading anyway, I may as well do the paperwork and turn it in so they can be rewarded for it.
Oh and don't forget Chuck E. Cheese too - for free tokens.
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Nothing formal here. Both DH and I read aloud to DS11 (I'm so glad he still wants us to) and DS and I are matching each other book for book in a friendly competition. He gets to choose which books to read and while they aren't all difficult, they're no longer the junk-food books either. Now and then I'll ask him a question about character, author choices, setting etc. just to get him thinking about his own writing.
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Okay, I looked it up and I don't see clock times anymore. Maybe I am making that up. You are supposed to put the date, though. So I need to track reading time each day (yes, they could do it...but they won't, and that would be a high bar for DS5, I'd say).
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Thanks HK
Yes, I have read it before but I am enjoying the reread. We made a coconut stir fry last night to go with the book. It has some difficult things to discuss, but she is old enough to know about concubines and other difficult things for women. We are mostly reading it due to the mother/daughter relationships.
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Ah yes, the concubine discussion with a younger child. A few years ago my son, who I think was about 9 at the time, was at the shore with my in-laws reading a book he had borrowed from the children's / middle grade section of our library. DS asked my in-laws what a concubine was -- and totally caught them off guard! Luckily FIL quickly said "female slave" and they all left it at that (other than the obligatory question to me -- "what are you letting him read?").
My kids liked the library program when they were younger -- they're suckers for those plastic cockroaches! But we don't bother anymore -- the two older ones read for pleasure while the younger one would rather sit with his sudoku and puzzles.
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DD has not slowed down much. She is still reading approximately 2-3 hours a day depending on the day. After finishing our library's reading club (4x 12 hours), we did travel over to a nearby library to also finish their bubble sheet (which was actually circles divided into pie pieces but also equaling 12 hours of reading in the end.) She has also gone through three specially made reading clubs. I make them a little harder. They were each 20 hours long. The one she is on now is 75 hours long. She has also just read on her own while in between bubble sheets.
I have not yet completed any other kind of reading club for her. I did find a really nice reading list for K-3rd graders put out by the NEH. I plan on printing out this list and having her complete it (by filling in bubbles!) DD has already read half of them, but these are all great books, and she could stand to read them again and again. There is a 4th-6th grade list I'd like to work through as well. She just really seems to like the idea of being made to read right now. I'd definitely like to see her weened off these bubble sheets. I'm hoping by summer's end she will lose interests in them but keep on reading.
Also, Pottery Barn kids has a very simple reading club, and I think the prize is a free book. And, MENSA has a summer reading list that pulls from the NEH recommendations.
Here is the list from NEH:
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale Aesop’s Fables Miss Nelson Is Missing! Mr. Popper’s Penguins Ivy + Bean A Visitor for Bear Madeline Freckle Juice Stone Soup The Story of Babar, The Little Elephant Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel The Stories Julian Tells The Mouse and the Motorcycle Diary of a Worm Strega Nona Abuela Petunia The Hundred Dresses Corduroy Millions of Cats My Father’s Dragon My Family / En Mi Familia The Reluctant Dragon A Pocketful of Poems Iris and Walter The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales Just Grace Chrysanthemum Bedtime for Frances Saint George and the Dragon Danny and the Dinosaur Amazing Grace Houndsley and Catina Harold and the Purple Crayon The Snowy Day Leo the Late Bloomer The Carrot Seed Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways Catwings Story of Ferdinand A Book of Nonsense The Year of the Dog Frederick Frog and Toad are Friends Paul Revere’s Ride Put Me in the Zoo George and Martha Anansi the Spider Winnie-the-Pooh Little Bear The Paper Bag Princess Wings The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Amelia Bedelia Clementine The Little Engine that Could Not a Box The Tale of Peter Rabbit Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young Curious George Tar Beach Henry and Mudge Grandfather’s Journey The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Where the Wild Things Are Green Eggs and Ham Nate the Great Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa Where the Sidewalk Ends Caps for Sale Mouse Gets Ready Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale A Child’s Garden of Verses Many Moons A Tree is Nice Crictor The Garden of Abdul Gasazi Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Charlotte’s Web There is a Bird on Your Head! The Napping House Crow Boy Mouse and Mole: A Winter Wonderland Harry the Dirty Dog William’s Doll
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