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Book Club for Toddlers and Kids

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

In October 2008, when Kabir was 2 years old, I started a book club for toddlers/kids. I sent a letter to some of my friends who had similar aged kids and invited them to join the book club. All my friends came and we formed a book club for kids very spontaneously. Since then we have been meeting once a week for about an hour or so. We read books to our kids and then let them play together. During summer, if the weather is good, we either meet at park or pool and let them enjoy the outdoors. It has been 3 years and we still look forward to it. My kids have benefited from this book club amazingly and they still look forward to it. Thanks to all my friends who have supported this little book club. It is still going strong. It’s amazing how some ventures start spontaneously and sustain themselves!

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Magic Tree House

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

My son, Kabir, got his first Magic Tree House book by Mary Pope Osborne for his 4th Birthday from his Ritu Chachi. Now, both of us have joined the Magic Tree House cult. I have read to him Magic Tree House books # 1-8 twice. We completed book #9 yesterday. Tonight we are going to start book# 10. We read at least 1 chapter at bedtime. When he asks Amit to read it to him, I get upset because I want to read it. So, he says, “Mama, you can read it to me again. I would love to listen second time too.” So, I am relieved.

Sometimes at quiet time, I find him trying to read the Magic Tree House books himself or pretending to be Jack or Anne (two main characters in the book). It is just so cute. Both of us are completely and madly hooked to the series. Also, we have been marking all the places that Jack and Anne visit in the map. It’s a great series that I recommend for young kids.

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3 Year old Preschool Curriculum for my son

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

My son is being home schooled right now. He is three and a half years old and his curriculum includes the following.

Reading Books: I love Sonlight P3/P4 curriculum as we are reading quality books and also, we do some of the suggested optional activities for each book in the reading list. We read Nursery Rhymes once a week. We participate in a book club once a week.

Activity Books: I have him working on 5-6 types of activity books at a time. I let my son do a page from each in a day. I like Kumon and BrainQuest Activity books. I have following types of activity books that he has been working on: dot-to-dot, mazes, tracing, cutting, folding, coloring, thinking skills, sticker books, and so on. We do these 3 days a week.

Reading Lesson: We are working with “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons“. Teaching my son to read has been a cake-walk because of this book so far. The best part is that he is enjoying it thoroughly. (more…)

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