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Children's books

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who is doing the reading challenge this summer

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ShallowWaterFish · 29/07/2008 20:49

and god who is it a challenge for?! soudns ok - 6 books
but its liek 5 a day
its at elast ONE too many

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FluffyMummy123 · 30/07/2008 15:16

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Hulababy · 30/07/2008 15:17

What's with the winning and all that? I thought it was just an individual thing. Is it supposed to be done in groups or something?

FluffyMummy123 · 30/07/2008 15:18

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FluffyMummy123 · 30/07/2008 15:18

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Marina · 30/07/2008 15:19

I don't know, batters, let's ask malory to tell us all about it shall we?
I am sure some examples of public servants in awful polyester clothes can be found for everyone's entertainment. They're obviously contemptible individuals - you can tell that by how they spend their days, helping people and devising schemes like the Team Read and the Carnegie Medal.

FluffyMummy123 · 30/07/2008 15:20

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Fimbo · 30/07/2008 15:25

We are doing it here.

The certificates are given out in school.

moondog · 30/07/2008 15:26

God I hate ridiculous vogue for turning normal activities into 'challenges'

Nafferoony.

FluffyMummy123 · 30/07/2008 15:27

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Marina · 30/07/2008 15:28

Of course she hasn't cod
I don't think moondog is target demographic somehow, do you?

moondog · 30/07/2008 15:29

What do you think??

Was ridiculous 'million words challenge' in my kids' school recently. I ensured dd had best entry by including all my MSc reading.

eg 'Verbal Behaviour' 300 000 words

FluffyMummy123 · 30/07/2008 15:30

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moondog · 30/07/2008 15:30

No
Not at all
Have just devoured a Stephen King novel by pool in 2 days and din't even hide the cover.

FluffyMummy123 · 30/07/2008 15:32

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Hulababy · 30/07/2008 15:33

Ah right, okay. Thought we might have supposed to have been in some mini team or something, trying to do it as fast as possible! Glad it is just a case of reading during the holidays. DD is loving the whole thing. She enjoys reading anyway, but likes the idea of going to the library to chnge the books and telling the librarian she has finished them and getting her stickers.

Didn't hear about it from school though, so not happening via that. No doubt DD will take her certificate in to school to show her teacher though.

I used to do something liek this when a child at my local library. But it was never some big national thing at all.

Hulababy · 30/07/2008 15:37

Team read website

singersgirl · 30/07/2008 15:43

We are doing it, but am trying to persuade DS2, in particular, not to choose really long books as he'll never read 6 of them - they are out at day camp all this week and DS2 is too knackered to do anything other than eat, wash and sleep afterwards.

The librarian told me that they had targets, and the school sent a note to parents saying they wanted to get 200 children participating. We always do it, but often read books from home. The library doesn't care.

moondog · 30/07/2008 16:58

My kid/s will read because the habit itself is intrinsically reinforcing. They don't need medals or stickers or certificates. Acknowledge however that useful for many.

littlerach · 30/07/2008 17:11

Dd1 is on her 5th book. She doesn't need any encouraging.

Dd2 has been allowed to enter as she atsts school in September.
But she cannot read???
She is on her 2nd book.

Last year dd1 got osme seeds ot plant and loved it.
Think they get an odd stretchy man this year?

Bink · 30/07/2008 17:33

Mine read constantly all the time and have no need at all for incentives - but they still think it's FUN - joining in with something children all over the country are doing, having an excuse to raid the library for forgotten treasures, discovering new authors, and so on.

Bink · 30/07/2008 17:34

Having extra entitled justification to bleat on at children's librarians (a nice lot) about what they really liked and what else it was like and ... so on. Altogether a good thing in my book

moondog · 30/07/2008 17:47

I just feel so irritated at the way that things have to be marketed, which invariably involves public funds being frittered on banners, posters, websites, badges and stickers.

moondog · 30/07/2008 17:48

My childminder took my kids to fire station. They came back with v expensive looking goody bags full of all sorts. I wanted to point out that the visit itself was the fun bit.

moondog · 30/07/2008 17:48

What is the point of spreading more expensively produced tat around the globe that average kid will play with for oooh, 15 minutes?

flack · 30/07/2008 17:59

You're in a sour mood, Moondog.
MN is very anti-fun last few days.
Some kids need encouragement, many parents on this thread are saying that they might not manage to get to the library very often if it weren't for the incentive scheme.
Not all kids or families easily take to the joy of reading, eh?

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