Scholastic Books – Early Math Counts https://earlymathcounts.org Laying the foundation for a lifetime of achievement Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:51:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 183791774 Book Club https://earlymathcounts.org/book-club/ https://earlymathcounts.org/book-club/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:00:25 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=1290 Thanks to reader Verinda, this week’s Focus on Families is on creating a “Book Club”.  She posted this,

I love books and my childcare children love them too. I Have a book club where every month it is mandatory for my clients to buy the book of the month from the scholastic book list I send home every month. This month it is MARVIN GETS MAD. I also take the children to the library on Thursday, when the librarian read stories and play games with them for about thirty minutes.

Book clubs are a really popular hobby for lots and lots of people out there.  I remember when Oprah Winfrey started her book club and, according to the press, people all over America started reading again.  That is pretty incredible.

The idea of a shared experience through books is pretty powerful. If everyone is reading the same thing, then there is a foundation for discussion.  This can happen in the classroom, when a book is read aloud to the children simultaneously.  If families are all reading the same books at home, there is a common thread that continues to stitch the community together.

Do you think your families would be OK with asking them to buy books?

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