{"id":7006,"date":"2011-07-07T10:40:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T14:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2011-07-07T10:40:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T14:40:47","slug":"teaching-our-children-encouraging-the-kids-to-read-during-summer-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=7006","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Our Children: Encouraging the Kids to Read During Summer Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our reading tree!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was trying to come up with a visual prompt in our home that encourages our children to read this summer.\u00a0 The girls LOVE it when they are read to and could do it for hours but since they are starting to read on their own I wanted to find something that would help motivate them to read a little more.\u00a0 I came up with the idea “Spring into Reading” since we technically started it in the Spring and I wanted to boost the girls reading skills.<\/p>\n

My Mom graciously made the tree for me and my Sister in Law Becky helped cut out a bunch of the leaves.\u00a0 The purpose of the tree is simple find a visual way for the girls to see their reading progress.\u00a0 Each member of our family gets a different color of leaf.\u00a0 When that member reads a book to the girls or they read a book on their own they get to put up their leaf.<\/p>\n

We have started to fill out our tree with leaves and hope to get an after summer break picture up for you to see what we accomplished.\u00a0 If all goes well I hope to see more and more of the girls leaves going up throughout the summer as their reading skills increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was trying to come up with a visual prompt in our home that encourages our children to read this summer.\u00a0 The girls LOVE it when they are read to and could do it for hours but since they are starting to read on their own I wanted to find something that would help motivate them to read a little more.\u00a0 I came up with the idea “Spring into Reading” since we technically started it in the Spring and I wanted to boost the girls reading skills. My Mom graciously made the tree for me and my Sister in Law Becky helped cut out a bunch of the leaves.\u00a0 The purpose of the tree is simple find a visual way for the girls to see their reading progress.\u00a0 Each member of our family gets a different color of leaf.\u00a0 When that member reads a book to the girls or they read a book on their own they get to put up their leaf. We have started to fill out our tree with leaves and hope to get an after summer break picture up for you to see what we accomplished.\u00a0 If all goes well I hope to see more and more of the girls leaves going up throughout the summer as their reading skills increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,54,64,65,10,16,18,20,38,40,43],"tags":[577,707,2040,2285,6929,6931,7072,12392,13085,14483,19300,22404,22788,22914,23348,23367],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-budget","category-events","category-family","category-freebies","category-kids","category-living-on-a-budget","category-local-activities","category-summer-activities","category-teaching-our-children-2","category-twins","tag-a-reading-tree","tag-activities-for-summer-vacation","tag-being-an-example-for-my-child","tag-best-resource-for-reading","tag-education-activities-for-summer-vacation","tag-education-summer-activities","tag-encourageing-our-children-to-read","tag-how-to-get-my-child-to-read","tag-increasing-my-childs-reading-abilities","tag-learning-and-having-fun-during-summer-vacation","tag-reading-with-my-child","tag-spring-into-reading","tag-strengthening-my-childs-reading-skills","tag-summer-reading-activity","tag-teaching-my-kids","tag-teaching-our-children-how-to-read"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnfwQ-1P0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}