You Can Give a Child a Book

But can you make them read it!

Every January at Veritas Academy there is the much anticipated Reading Contest. The entire elementary reads as much as they can for the month for the coveted 1st place. They tally the number of pages read per child and the child that reads the most pages in their grade wins the 1st place title and a prize from the super duper prize table.
The deal is the child must read a book on their grade level or higher. This prevents the 6th graders from reading a million little readers.

In the Bruce house we have Victoria, she is our little reader. In the month of January she read 2239 pages. The books were large and approx 600 pages each. Jeff and I both love to read, so she comes by it honest. On the other end we have Adam. What is there to say about Adam. We tried to get the boy to read. Give him a book and he would sit there forever and look like he was reading. He is very good at making himself look busy and not get anything done. Needless to say, he didn't even get through 1/2 of a book.

This Friday there will be an awards assembly to announce the winners. Victoria usually ranks in the top 2.


Today is a rest day on the ChaLEAN Extreme calendar so I am going to do Get Lean Intervals and Extreme Abs. I will save the rest day for later this week, just in case.