Aiming High!

By Children Rising | November 29, 2012

“If any of you have finished your bookworm sheet, please come see me; I have a special prize for you!” was the announcement that Merle made during our last tutoring session. Merle is the Reading Clinic Coordinator for La Escuelita, and upon hearing her announcement, Erick pulled out his bookworm. There are twenty spaces on it for the titles of twenty books, and we had five of those twenty slots filled.

Erick frowned at his paper, so I suggested, “Let’s start by reading two books right away, then we can do other things!” So he immediately brightened and picked a book with a chameleon on its cover and a Jack-and-the-Beanstalk story called The Magic Beans. Between the books he paused and asked, “What do you think the prize is?”
“I’m not sure,” I replied. “But it sounds like something special.”

Soon enough, we will both know what the prize is…After all, we were able to get one more book in after we worked on some phonics. How fitting that it was a book about two kids that shoot for the moon and go there in a spaceship!