A Beginners Start!!!

Well I have no clue what I'm doing, but I feel it's time to start my own blog after enjoying so many this year, please bare with me. I want to share with you the books being read to and by my emerging 7 year old bookworm and this is the perfect way if I can get over the shyness.

So a bit more about us. I am Welsh and Hubby is Scottish, happily married for almost 18years. Lumpy (not his real name) is our busy, demanding, active little 7yr old son.

This blog will be all about him!!

His reading has come on great in his 1st Grade year 05/06. He even got a certificate for "Most Improved Reader" at the end of the school year last week. I admit to being worried through Kindergarten, he was showing no interest in reading and it was a struggle for all concerned to do his reading homework each night.

But wow what a difference now, he read about 35 books himself from Christmas, it's taken a few different incentives. But practice, practice has definitely shown a result in his reading skills. This time last year we were so relieved to not have reading homework, avoiding the frustration the three of us felt was a relief. You can't make them read, so we did the summer slide I'm afraid, still showing him our love of books and continued to read lots to him. Hoping to get a glimpse of interest from him. It took longer than we thought, but here we are and we are chuffed to bits with his progress. A week ago today he took a borrowed neighbours Junie B. book and read through it all .........to himself, I thought that would never happen!!

I hope to get the list of books that slowly brought out the bookworm on this blog soon. I know I spent many many hours searching shops, libraries and the web for book ideas/suggestions and know that not everyone has that luxury. So that's why I started this blog, wish me luck ;-)