We’re trying something new in the read-aloud arena. At the beginning of the year we each picked a book (my husband and I and our three oldest boys) and assigned them to a day of the week. For a few weeks we successfully read each book once a week and it went really well. My oldest is gone Tuesday nights so we assigned a book he had already read to that night. Instead of missing a chapter of our one read aloud every Tuesday, he misses the entire book which actually works out much better.
Since then we have realized that reading 5 nights a week is a little ambitious…we usually only get it in about three nights a week so we dropped down to three books and we rotate through them based on the children’s interest.
Right now we’re reading
- Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Tim O’Brien
- A Little Swiss Boy by Johanna Spyri
We highly recommend all three! What’s your favorite family read-aloud??
