Yesterday was our first day of camp for Collin, Morgan, and Shannen! Collin got to make a dinosaur (it is dinosaur week) picture, read a dinosaur book, and in general roar a whole bunch. His teachers was Shannen’s kindergarten teachers so I know and trust her completely. He had a great time and even said he was not nervous this morning (he didn’t know anyone in his class). Morgan and Shannen started Wild West camp and got to make cowgirl hats and go to science class to make invisible ghosts (some sort of poly…gooey…something). Fun was had by all and they did not drown in the pool! Tristan is off at my mom’s house for the week so I get to work run errands by myself and get those necessary things done (like a wax) without embarrassing questions from a 4 year old boy 

Collin is at camp till 1:00 and the girls come home at 3:00 so I have oodles of time in the morning and I still get to play with them in the afternoon. Camp lasts until the end of July so I can enjoy August with the kids and not feel the need to throw them out the window by then!

Last weekend in the hopes of getting more info for Shannen’s school so that they will accelerate her we took her to Sylvan to get an evaluation (more on that later). When we were done with everything they gave us a website that is FREE to use called www.bookadventure.org. At the site you can pick books by READING LEVEL!! I have been trying for the last year to find a list that works like that. You can also find the books by author, subject, title etc. When you are done with the book you can take a quiz to earn “points”. After a while you can trade in your points for free stuff. We are having a hard time getting Shannen to read anything other than the Harry Potter series (for the 1 millionth time) and she can only get the points for each book once…so she is forced to read other books 

I was really hoping this would work well for Morgan too…and I am sure it will eventually. Unfortunately the series she has been reading were not on the website. She was a little bummed that she couldn’t get that many points for books she had already read. One huge benefit was that she FINALLY got to see in writing that the books she reads are about grade level and that she is a good reader (she wont listen to me say that and continues to compare herself with her twin).

So just wanted to pass the info on and hopefully we will have two happy readers for the whole summer!!