Reading Reward

The last parent-teacher conference I went to I found out that Madison's class is doing AR points. Her teacher told me that Madison only had 17 points and thought that Madison could get 35 points before the end-of-the-year AR party. The goal was actually set to have each kid reach 50 points for the year but since Madison moved in later in the year, her teacher gave her a smaller goal.

I decided to create some incentive!

I told Madison that she could reach 50 points very easily. She is a great reader and very capable of getting 50 points before the deadline. I told her that for every 5 books she reads, I would buy her some type of craft/art supply.

Her first choice: 120 crayons!
It didn't take her long to get all of the books read to reach 35 points. We are almost to 40 and we have until the 21st to reach 50 points. I'm thinking she'll make it. I am behind on her rewards though. It's a good thing she's been occupied with her crayons.

With Justin gone to Boise this past weekend, Austin gone to SLC for the weekend with a friend and Braydon at baseball practice- it was just the girls. We decided to try out Madison's new crayons and do some coloring. Madison was nice enough to share. It was hard though. She's too much like me. There's something about the look of brand new crayons- all perfectly pointed on the tips. The rows of colors and all the variety. A new box crayons always puts a smile on my face and it does the same for my girls.

We got lots of coloring in that night and it made Madison a little worried to see her crayons start to get dull tips. She told us we should take a break from coloring for a bit because she didn't want to use up all of her crayons in one night. Silly girl!

Mayci and I colored some My Little Pony pages and then got silly with the camera. Mayci wanted to just scribble all over the girls' pages and so her and I tried to find other things to keep us busy.

It was a bummer to have Justin gone for the weekend but I was grateful for the box of crayons that gave us fun memories. I'm sure those crayons will give us many more memories.

I love being a mom! Not everyone gets to create memories with 3 beautiful girls all because of a reading goal. I wouldn't trade my life for anything!!