My 5yo has been waking up 30 mins earlier for a few weeks now, and I've been going into his bedroom and getting some books down from his bookshelves for him to read until his gro-click lights up green meaning it's officially morning! I want to keep encouraging this discipline to keep going and eventually hoping he will learn to get a book and do this himself!
The difficulty is he can't read fluently yet and so the he skims through the book pile really quickly and then needs more. He will go through a pile of 20 or so books in half an hour. I guess he's looking at the pictures mostly rather than taking time to read all the words (these are bedtime stories like Zog or whatever, rather than the basic "reading" books he gets at school).
Anyway I was wondering about getting some graphic novel type books suited to his age group, where there are lots of pictures to "read" to tell a story and he could take his time over it.
Has anyone got any suggestions here? Or any other ways they keep their 5 year olds busy before morning time officially begins?!