Since we're learning about Christopher Columbus this week, we got the book Christopher Columbus by Peter and Connie Roop from the Scholastic series In their own words from the library.
It took Emmi a while to get into the book. The first week she read about twenty pages.
After that I put it on her daily schedule and we started reading it together before bed. I read it aloud to both Emmi and O and they tried their best to follow along and not fall asleep. But it worked out well, they both were excited when they heard something they had already learned or something new entirely.
Although, they were rather disappointed when we were done with the book and they noticed that there had been no mention off Columbus' egg. Oh well, good thing we had more than one source.
The book is written very well and is rather interesting. There are a lot of quotes, taken from Columbus' journals, woven into the story. It is full of facts and details and we found out quite a bit that we hadn't known before.
The "problem" that Emmi had with the book was that it was "so long".
Whenever she sees a book that's not a chapter book, it automatically is too long for her to want to read it on her own.
For the next book we're going to read we'll try something new: narration!
And once that works we'll try our hand at notebooking! I'm really looking forward to that!
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