LIBRARY CARD!!

Library card.

That was the most exciting thing that happened today.

For Dalton anyway.He was so excited. We recently (just this year) got a new library in Belleville. I am really wanting him to keep up his excellent reading ability over the summer. So I asked him if he would like to get a library card. of course he said yes! So today we went and got him one. He was so proud of himself!

The woman at the library was happy to see a young man so excited about getting a new library card. She showed him how to find a book on the computer...

Apparently no more card catalogue like when we were kids! Now he can just type in the kind of book he wants and it tells him where to find it.

She also showed him how to find his favorite section of books, trucks. Also where all the new books go before they are ready for distribution. He was able to join a book club to win prizes. For every ten books he reads or has read to him, he gets a ballet for a prize. They have 12- 15 different things for the kids to choose from. For example, wonderland tickets, supper out, movie tickets, Ontario place tickets, theatre tickets and so on.

So on his first visit to the library we left with four books. He read one on the way home.For a boy who said he only reads because I want him too he was pretty excited about it. When I asked him how he liked that library compared to his school library he said "Mom... it rocked"

So now this will be a weekly trip that we will stop and do regularly. It seems that he is eager to go again. I won't tell him he is learning! It will wreck the whole adventure for him!

Literacy night.....

Well tonight was Literacy night at Dalton's school. His school has the best reading curriculum of all the schools in Hastings county. I found out tonight that Dalton ready doesn't like to read he just does it for me. He does it quite well too I might add.
Anyway, I was working tonight and I couldn't go with him. So Angela stayed at the house with Tyson and Nanny & Poppa came out to go to Literacy night with Dalton. All while Mom & Dad were at work. Nanny was looking forward to it and so was Dalton. All excited this morning and had to call Nan so she wouldn't forget all about it! Nan would never but anyway....
Apparently they were asking why the kids like to read and Dalton said " I don't like to read I just do it because my Mom thinks I do, don't tell her" or something like that. Kids ya never know what they are going to say. So I laughed.
They made a book, ate cookies, played in the computer room, made a bookmark ( which Dalton made for Nanny) and had some door prizes. Dalton won the last one. $ 10.00 at a book store, as you can imagine from the last comment, the last thing he wants to buy is a book!!

Thanks to everyone for making the kids night...
NANNY, POPPA, and Aunite Angeno.... We love you!