(Photo by Kristen Huebner)

How can you take kids to a whole new world without leaving your home? (Or maybe WHILE leaving your home?)

“Dr. Ziegler asks Finn Larsen, executive director of Christian Educators Association International, ‘How can parents use reading to take their kids to places they may never get to?’

‘Bill, summer is an ideal time for a reading adventure.  Certainly there has got to be time for play and recreation and just getting out and unwinding, but there’s plenty of time to focus your children on reading.  In fact, it can be a great family activity.  Depending on certainly the age of the child.  If the child is very young, they can be read to.  If they’re a little bit older, books can be read together and then discussed.  It can be a phenomenal family bonding time, and it expands the learning that is done during the year.'”

From Dr. Bill Ziegler’s TiPPS (teaching in public and private schools):

So, adventurers, we want to know!  Where are you taking your book this summer?  The book above traveled to Jacob’s Brook Campground in Orford, NH, for the totally amazing Huebner/Johnson Camping Extravaganza!  Not sure if it conquered Mt. Moosilauke with the hikers or not.  Hmmm.

We hope all of our blogging friends will send Miss Blessing a picture of the Reader and the Book in whatever wild and wonderful place you have been reading.  E-mail your picture to cblessing@mvcs.info along with any details of your adventure you would like included.  We can’t wait!