New year's goal: read 2,013 book this year

[Tamsyn]

This is a goal for myself- I'm not keeping a separate list for each kid.  Most of the time they are all listening anyway, but I can't keep track of attendance. 

[rixu]

im in too. this is very good idea. so that v can keep the track

[mybabyian]

We're in!  We didn't do this last year.  I was sure would never keep track and we read all the time.  Things have gotten hectic and we are reading less so this is good accountability for me.  It is a good practice for me to get a bit more organized too.

Lesak, I am in a similar situation as you in that I am teaching my son a foreign language that is not my native language.  It is a priority for me for him to learn that language, but I still read to him in both languages.  I have read that when a child learns his first language well it is easier for them to learn other languages.  So especially since Spanish books are not as easy to come by (our other language) I definitely read to him in both English and Spanish.  It won't hurt his Spanish to hear English and it is possible that it will help.  You can always read all the books you can in English first and then if you still have time read books in your native language.  I can't see how that would harm anything.   

[Tamsyn]

PS- my mental math estimate was way off.  On average you need only read about 5.52 books a day on average to reach 2,013.  That makes the goal a little nicer. 

[Skylark]

PS- my mental math estimate was way off.  On average you need only read about 5.52 books a day on average to reach 2,013.  That makes the goal a little nicer. 

That sounds doable! I am thinking about joining in, and recording our progress    to keep myself accountable  .

We actually read more then 5 books a day, but some of them we  re-read, some are longer chapter books ( so I like the idea of counting chapters  ) or Children's Bible for example -- it is the same book, but we read different chapters every day...

Lelask, I need to get back to my computer, where I have a list of websites you can read or download free or really cheap English books, once I find it I will post it here!

[lelask]

Hi, I have not explained our language situation well before.   I do use both languages with my daugter but because we decided to use English when we are alone and the native language when daddy is back from work(he works long hours) we use English more and we read in English more. We have been working hard to set the rules for our languages so I don't want to change that . She goes to preschool and she gets more of our native language now and I can tell she was dropping English a bit.
We have quite a nice selection of book but those are the books for children to read really not for the parents to read to the children 
I am trying to buy books you recommend on the forum and from now on I will focus more on buing books for "parents". So I would be happy to read your suggestions!
I will probaby change our goal to 3 books and 2 poems a day.

Thank you for the recommended links. Skylark I will wait patiently 
Reading on the iPad is not the same as reading the real book  but I am sure it will help a lot.

[lzp11]

I didn't do this last year and felt sorry afterwards!  I am going to try to reach this aim too although I only have 4 full days per week as I work on 3 days.  Even on my work days, I try to get my oldest to read one book at breakfast and both kids still get one or two books at bedtime after nursery and probably do a fair bit of reading at nursery too, but I will not count those.  But this does give me a bit of leeway if we have a bad few days.  I will aim for my 3-year old to read 1-2 books to me and I will read 3-4 to her.  All these books will count!

I will aim for 5 books per child (i have two kids) per day on 4 days a week so that reaches the target of 2013 books as a family.  There may well be some crossover and each will often hear the other's books but it's simpler for me to do it this way.  If we get to chapter books or story books with multiple short stories then each chapter will count as a book.  I am happy to count a reading of any book - they don't all have to be different ones as we would never achieve this, plus my kids love repetition.  I'll also aim for a poem a day (but probably only changing the poem once a week so that we start to learn it). 

I'm sure I won't keep a record of all the books read, but it will be motivating to know that everyone here is reading lots with their children and hopefully that will help keep us on track.

[lelask]

I have just found this on youtube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/9yu_g5x3ZoQ&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/9yu_g5x3ZoQ&rel=1</a> maybe you could post links here as well.  Or should I start another thread?

[seastar]

Oh wow! What a beautiful reading of Goodnight Moon! Karma

[Krista G]

After thinking this over for a few days I have decided that we are in.  I have to make adjustments to the way we did this last year is we are going to succeed.  Last year we did not count books that we read more than once in a month on our list.  Chapter books were counted as 1 book.  I began to feel a little frustrated towards the end of last year trying to find new and exciting books to read.  Now that I have accepted that we can re-read books, this will be much easier, and there is a lot of benefit to reading books repeatedly.  Now that we have decided to participate, we are really excited and need to get busy getting caught up!!

Thanks, Tamsyn, for the push.  Even if we don't complete our goal, we should come close and that is not a bad thing.

[lelask]

I have found this website http://memetales.com/ it might be useful to parents with younger children who teach english as a forein language. They also have an app which is nice and my daughter likes to listen to it  in bed on our iPad just before I come with the real book. We started to read a chapter book with limited pictures in it (we have seen the story in the theatre before so she was quite interested). And that motivated me to add more theatre visits along with our reading goal.

[waterdreamer]

LOL I found myself saying. Darn it I've only read 100+ books to Baby Z so far. Then I shake my head and realize its WAY more then his older brother had at this age.

[waterdreamer]

How is this challenge going for everyone?

We are sitting at 240 books.

[Humbler9]

Right at 300 books (+/- dozen).

We've been reading books on the alphabet called. ie:  My "A" book, My "B" book, C, D, etc..  Although they are a bit long for a 2 year old (about 20 pages average), my twins really enjoy them.

[waterdreamer]

Oh I found a few of those at a local thrift store! I think we have a b and c. Those are on our list too!

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