100 Books

My Rachel is getting to be a good little reader, but she didn't have a whole lot of confidence in herself. She didn't think she could read books that she hadn't read before. To help her gain some confidence, we had her do a 100 book challenge while Jacob was gone. After she read a book, she would write it on her list, and she couldn't put the same book on the list twice. She could read a book as many times as she wanted, but it could only go on the list once. I thought she would think it was fun to show her dad when he came home. She was skeptical about the challenge when I told her about it. She didn't think she could read that many books.  Well,  she did it, and finished it a whole week early! 

It's been fun to see her confidence grow and see her pick up books that I didn't even know she could read!! She is willing to try to read different books now and she told me today, "Mom, I want to read 100 books again!!" She felt so good and happy about reaching her goal! It was so fun to see! 

It's also been fun to see her reading improve so much these last 3 weeks. She is reading so much faster and sounding out words a lot less. She is asking to read books to Kent (which he thinks is fun but doesn't always listen to), and Kent also asks her to read him books. Sometimes when I'm reading to Kent at night time, he will ask if Rachel can come in and read him a specific book. It's super cute to see!

I'm so proud of my cute Rachel girl. She worked so hard to reach this goal! It's fun to see her learn that hard work pays off. I asked her how she wanted to celebrate accomplishing her goal and she said she wanted to eat ice cream and sing and dance and play games. We had a fun little celebration tonight. I love this girl!