February is I love to read month. I hate it. I love reading, I hate all the work that comes with February. Our school does some fantastic reading things with the kids, but they all come to a head in February.
They do One School, One Book which means the entire elementary, pre-k through 6, staff, custodians, bus drivers, cooks, everyone reads the same book. We read one chapter a night until the book is finished. Every morning they get a question to answer about what was read the night before. It's a great program. The problem, they also do Fast Start Reading, and the first grade is doing a super reader's squad challenge (40 books in February). That means, on top of the chapter every night, he has a poem to read, his guided reading homework, and the books for the reading squad. That's on top of the library books we have to read and Cole's piano practice. That's a lot of reading to do between the hours of 4 and 8, if there is nothing else going on. Cole likes to read and he's good at reading, but it's a lot. We already dropped the ball with the One School book. We forgot that last night so I read it to them over breakfast. At least it's cold and no one wants to be outside.
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