Book Ball

Posted by Cindy on August 15, 2007

My son loves baseball.  He’s also excited about his new interest in learning to read.  (Thank you, Lord!) So, we came up with a fun way to show his reading achievements – a “book”ball chart.  Everytime he reads a book by himself, we’ll add a baseball to the field.  We came up with the idea together, so he is very motivated to see the idea work!

Another mom from the Homeschool Open House (I wish I could remember who she was to give her credit!!) suggested a bookworm.  You put a caterpillar head on the wall and add circles to the body for each book.  You could do almost anything.  A racetrack with car cutouts, a tree with apples, the moon with stars, a birdhouse with birds, a barn with animals or hay bales……..

The hands-on, active reading/spelling lessons are working wonders.  I’ll be sure to write a post sharing the specific activities we’re using after I get some multi-sensory teaching “miles” on me!