Electronics Day

The day after the last day of school we had an electronics day. We did this as a reward for how well they all did with reading books throughout the year. Their school does the AR book program where they take quizzes on the books that they read and then get prizes. Julia and Ethan both got enough points for the grand prize, lunch with the principal. Julia is a reading manic and she easily got 200 more points than was necessary. Ethan, on the other hand, had to really work hard to make the goal. He loves to read, he just likes to read some of the same books over and over again and you can only get points once for a book. Julia's favorite books are probably the Little House on the Prairie books, Anne of Green Gables books, and the Candy Makers series. Ethan's favorites were Big Nate, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Percy Jackson series. I think their favorite combined series this year was Michael Vey. Christian did great with his reading too, but they don't really do the points yet for his grade. He liked the Magic Treehouse books, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Timewarp Trio books. He also has become our scripture reader for nightly devotionals. I used to be the one who read, but he was so insistent on asking every night that now he is just the one who reads it all.

So, for our electronics day they had from breakfast to dinner to play whatever games they wanted on the computer. They had a blast, but I think they also got bored with the games by the end of the day; which was something Rebecca and I had been hoping for.