One of my favorite things to do in the summer is go to bookstores (they are usually so chilly you almost need a sweater!) purchase a few books and go over to the "coffee shop" area, get a hot chocolate and sit in a chair or at a table and read. You know you can download your summer reading list as well as look at the list of books and poems that your grade will be delving into now, don't you? Why not go through the list and pick something? It's a great feeling to be ahead of the game, and who knows, you just might find a book or a poem or a topic that interests you. I actually "hid" a few of the poems for middle school into my arts program this week and the kids didn't even know that we fulfilled the core curriculum standards for those poems, until after I told them, to which they said; "HEY, you slid school work and learning in!" *with learning? Okay, I guess I did, lol. But They were happy to know that as entering middle school students that something that they might have assumed was going to be difficult was in fact easily doable. Why read during the summer? Because there is nothing like when you find a really good book and start reading it, and forget that you are reading it and feel like you are right there in the story. That is why. When you learn something new and want to know more. That is why. And finally when you can unplug, turn off, tune out and just relax. That is why too.
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