Winnie-The-Pooh book project

Over the last week and a half we have been reading the original Winnie-The-Pooh book by A. A. Milne for school. Chance and I have both been really into it, sometimes reading more than the assigned one chapter per day.

After finishing the book Chance picked his favorite chapter to be the subject of his book project. Since he doesn't like to write he chose to draw pictures to tell the important parts of the story. Using one of the book report templates the school had given us he drew Piglet stranded in his house as the flood waters rose, Pooh floating on a honey pot, Christopher Robin and Pooh floating on an umbrella boat and of course the flood waters themselves as well as the message in a bottle Piglet threw into the waters hoping to be rescued.

The end result is pretty impressive if I do say so myself.

Book report - The Trumpet of the Swan

In this unit chance was given a list of books to choose from, The one he picked was an excellent choice, one of the characters is a little boy loves animals just like Chance.

So, for the past week and a half we have been reading The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White. 

When we finally finished the book it was time to do a book report.

It is hard to see but on each of those little pieces of paper is written a fact about the book.

We brainstormed what to write on the papers together. Then Chance decided which fact should go on which paper and wrote the facts out himself.

This was our hardest literature unit so far the reading was easy but going over everything we had read every day became tedious for both of us. In the end we all decided it was a pretty good book.

Best in his class.

A few weeks ago Chance took a reading test. Last week we had Chance's first parent/teacher conference where I learned Chance's score. You can see my notes on that test score above. 113 is the score he needs to be at his age/grade level, 218 is the score Chance received. The highest score in the class!

Chance loves to read, absolutely loves it. He has books in his bed every night. He reads me a story each night for bedtime and I read a few chapters in a longer book to him. 

In Literature class we are reading The  Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White. We read three chapters per lesson. I read two chapters and he reads one chapter. They are long but he sticks with it and does a great job.