First Chapter Book

On Friday Kai came home from school and was excited that his teacher had begun reading outloud to his kindergarten class the first book in the Magic Tree House series.  Last year my Mom (the 2nd grade teacher) had hooked Kai up with lots of the books in the series so he is very familiar with these books and he really enjoys them.  Back around Halloween he even brainstormed about how he and Rori might dress up like Jack and Annie. 

Anyway, he was so excited about it that he went up to his bookshelf and pulled out that first book and continued to read the whole thing to himself before dinner.  Saturday morning we found him working on another one when we went to wake him up.  By the end of the weekend he had polished off 3 of the books. 

His reading and writing has really taken off this year.  He loves to make up and write stories so it is fun to now see him falling in love with reading as well.  Lance and I both remember loving to read as kids so we would be thrilled to have to pull him out of books to do family things versus out of video games etc.