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1,000 books for kindergarten
DD’s school has a 1,000 book challenge. Read 1,000 books before school ends in June. They gave us a pamphlet to give us ideas but I’m always looking for new book ideas.
Favorite books for 5 and 6 year olds?
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
My kids love
Elephant and piggie / pigeon books
Scaredy squirrel
Princess in black chapter books
Splat the cat
Fly guy series
If you give a mouse a ...all those books
Dragons love tacos and the sequel
I am not a chair/ I don’t want to be big
How the crayons saved the rainbows
Vegetables in underwear
Thelma the unicorn
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
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How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
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1,000 books for kindergarten
I thought the challenge was 1000 books BEFORE kindergarten
https://1000booksbeforekindergarten.org/1000-books-before-kindergarten-program/
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by gina409
Posted by Sash
How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
We usually read 3-5 books at bedtime. Not super long books, and I’m sure you can repeat.
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by Katareen
Posted by gina409
Posted by Sash
How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
We usually read 3-5 books at bedtime. Not super long books, and I’m sure you can repeat.
So it’s only for younger kids?
That’s still a lot for me. My son would not sit through 3-5 books a night, especially at bedtime. But it’s good that this encourages more reading.
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by Sash
Posted by Katareen
Posted by gina409
Posted by Sash
How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
We usually read 3-5 books at bedtime. Not super long books, and I’m sure you can repeat.
So it’s only for younger kids?
That’s still a lot for me. My son would not sit through 3-5 books a night, especially at bedtime. But it’s good that this encourages more reading.
LOL same.
I don't think I've read 1000 books in my life. 
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by gina409
Posted by Sash
How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
How old are your kids? Unless that was the only hwk, that would be a lot for us.
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by Sash
Posted by Katareen
Posted by gina409
Posted by Sash
How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
We usually read 3-5 books at bedtime. Not super long books, and I’m sure you can repeat.
So it’s only for younger kids?
That’s still a lot for me. My son would not sit through 3-5 books a night, especially at bedtime. But it’s good that this encourages more reading.
LOL same.
I don't think I've read 1000 books in my life.
True.. 
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by Sash
Posted by Katareen
Posted by gina409
Posted by Sash
How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
We usually read 3-5 books at bedtime. Not super long books, and I’m sure you can repeat.
So it’s only for younger kids?
That’s still a lot for me. My son would not sit through 3-5 books a night, especially at bedtime. But it’s good that this encourages more reading.
Our library does it and the idea is to start when they're very young and finish before kindergarten. They used to have 100 bags of 10 books you would check out which I loved but now you just record books as you read.
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by Sash
Posted by Katareen
Posted by gina409
Posted by Sash
How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
We usually read 3-5 books at bedtime. Not super long books, and I’m sure you can repeat.
So it’s only for younger kids?
That’s still a lot for me. My son would not sit through 3-5 books a night, especially at bedtime. But it’s good that this encourages more reading.
Our library does it and the idea is to start when they're very young and finish before kindergarten. They used to have 100 bags of 10 books you would check out which I loved but now you just record books as you read.
That concept is easier to understand but the OP is talking about 1000 within a school year which is 10 months. I feel like there will be a lot of “cheating” logs, if the majority of kids say they accomplished
this. Lol
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by Sash
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by Sash
Posted by Katareen
Posted by gina409
Posted by Sash
How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
We usually read 3-5 books at bedtime. Not super long books, and I’m sure you can repeat.
So it’s only for younger kids?
That’s still a lot for me. My son would not sit through 3-5 books a night, especially at bedtime. But it’s good that this encourages more reading.
Our library does it and the idea is to start when they're very young and finish before kindergarten. They used to have 100 bags of 10 books you would check out which I loved but now you just record books as you read.
That concept is easier to understand but the OP is talking about 1000 within a school year which is 10 months. I feel like there will be a lot of “cheating” logs, if the majority of kids say they accomplished
this. Lol
Idk, we read two books every night before bed. Adding a third wouldn't be too hard. Also, dd would bring home simple readers in her book bag every day in kindergarten and she always read at least two of those. I think the only annoying part would be writing them all down.
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by Sash
Posted by Katareen
Posted by gina409
Posted by Sash
How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
We usually read 3-5 books at bedtime. Not super long books, and I’m sure you can repeat.
So it’s only for younger kids?
That’s still a lot for me. My son would not sit through 3-5 books a night, especially at bedtime. But it’s good that this encourages more reading.
Our library does it and the idea is to start when they're very young and finish before kindergarten. They used to have 100 bags of 10 books you would check out which I loved but now you just record books as you read.
I used to try to read to my daughter when she was a baby and toddler and it never went over well. She would want to grab the books, eat them, throw them, rip out the pages. Or she would want to get up and walk away to go play.
It turned into a stressful battle to be honest and I gave up. It wasn't getting us anywhere.
She is now 8 and read above grade level so I really don't think not reading to her at 2 or 3 harmed her in any way.
I'm not a big reader though myself so maybe that's why it wasn't a huge thing for me.
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1,000 books for kindergarten
This whole tracking your reading thing annoys the hell out of me. DD reads with either me or DH every night before bed and we will continue to do so as she gets older. We do it because we enjoy it. It shouldn’t be a contest to see how many books a kid can read. What happens when the contest is over? What are kids learning from this?
I don’t know, it all seems so dumb to me.
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by LuckyStar
This whole tracking your reading thing annoys the hell out of me. DD reads with either me or DH every night before bed and we will continue to do so as she gets older. We do it because we enjoy it. It shouldn’t be a contest to see how many books a kid can read. What happens when the contest is over? What are kids learning from this?
I don’t know, it all seems so dumb to me.
I hate reading logs. What a chore.
I sometimes just BS them because to be honest- she reads. She does it when she has time and when she feels like it.
If she reads more on the weekend when she is not "required " to because she has more time than during the week with homework and activities, then so be it.
I'll put down what she read on Saturday as Monday's reading and call it a day.
I don't even think the teacher looks at these logs to be honest.
Just more work for ME to worry about after working all day and getting home after 6 and having to deal with dinner, etc.
Enough.
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
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This whole tracking your reading thing annoys the hell out of me. DD reads with either me or DH every night before bed and we will continue to do so as she gets older. We do it because we enjoy it. It shouldn’t be a contest to see how many books a kid can read. What happens when the contest is over? What are kids learning from this?
I don’t know, it all seems so dumb to me.
I completely agree!
Reading logs and tracking minutes and all of that makes reading seem MORE like a chore and something to just get done and over with, doing the bare minimum of x minutes per night.
I always LOVED reading, still do, but as a kid I wanted to get lost in my books or read in my bed and not worry about how many pages or minutes and writing down the titles/authors.
My DS is 9, and does not love reading, but reading logs do not make him want to read more, and if he read at night before bed, then it was a pain to remember to track it in the morning.
I think we should be encouraging activities that instill a love of reading in kids, and worry less about minutes and reading levels and all of that. This year, my DS's teachers assigns 20 minutes a night of reading, but it's on the honor system. No log. Hallelujah!
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
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Posted by gina409
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How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
How old are your kids? Unless that was the only hwk, that would be a lot for us.
Twins. 1st grade. Books. 2 math sheets. 2 writing/language arts sheets
We get a packet on Monday with all the homework for the week. Due Friday
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by gina409
Posted by Sash
Posted by gina409
Posted by Sash
How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
How old are your kids? Unless that was the only hwk, that would be a lot for us.
Twins. 1st grade. Books. 2 math sheets. 2 writing/language arts sheets
We get a packet on Monday with all the homework for the week. Due Friday
idk how you do it with two. I could never fit 4 books a night with my one kid at that age. Bless you!
my son is 10 now, and I will preface by saying he is a pain in the @ss. Sometimes with all his work we can't even fit in the 30 min a night. He missed it the other night.
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by Sash
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by Sash
Posted by Katareen
Posted by gina409
Posted by Sash
How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
We usually read 3-5 books at bedtime. Not super long books, and I’m sure you can repeat.
So it’s only for younger kids?
That’s still a lot for me. My son would not sit through 3-5 books a night, especially at bedtime. But it’s good that this encourages more reading.
Our library does it and the idea is to start when they're very young and finish before kindergarten. They used to have 100 bags of 10 books you would check out which I loved but now you just record books as you read.
That concept is easier to understand but the OP is talking about 1000 within a school year which is 10 months. I feel like there will be a lot of “cheating” logs, if the majority of kids say they accomplished
this. Lol
Idk, we read two books every night before bed. Adding a third wouldn't be too hard. Also, dd would bring home simple readers in her book bag every day in kindergarten and she always read at least two of those. I think the only annoying part would be writing them all down.
I don't think it's impossible but you would have to be really rigid. For about 3 months you would have to read 4 books a night. This also doesn't include if you missed doing it on the weekends, vacation time or holidays. I think I would also fail on the log writing.
With schedules, some kids small attention span, and test/hwk - I just don't see how the majority can pull this off for k-1 graders. I can't even imagine how you do it for older grades, if this is a school wide initiative.
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by Sash
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by Sash
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by Sash
Posted by Katareen
Posted by gina409
Posted by Sash
How is that possible? let’s say school year is 10 months and average 30days (including weekends and holidays) so you have to read 3+ books a day. Crazy... is this just for the little kids?
The pidegeon books someone mentioned on another thread were my sons favorites. I used to also print books from this site when he was that age https://www.raz-kids.com - they helped with sight words.
Our school my kids come home with 4 books a night in the book bags to read.
We usually read 3-5 books at bedtime. Not super long books, and I’m sure you can repeat.
So it’s only for younger kids?
That’s still a lot for me. My son would not sit through 3-5 books a night, especially at bedtime. But it’s good that this encourages more reading.
Our library does it and the idea is to start when they're very young and finish before kindergarten. They used to have 100 bags of 10 books you would check out which I loved but now you just record books as you read.
That concept is easier to understand but the OP is talking about 1000 within a school year which is 10 months. I feel like there will be a lot of “cheating” logs, if the majority of kids say they accomplished
this. Lol
Idk, we read two books every night before bed. Adding a third wouldn't be too hard. Also, dd would bring home simple readers in her book bag every day in kindergarten and she always read at least two of those. I think the only annoying part would be writing them all down.
I don't think it's impossible but you would have to be really rigid. For about 3 months you would have to read 4 books a night. This also doesn't include if you missed doing it on the weekends, vacation time or holidays. I think I would also fail on the log writing.
With schedules, some kids small attention span, and test/hwk - I just don't see how the majority can pull this off for k-1 graders. I can't even imagine how you do it for older grades, if this is a school wide initiative.
My other issue would be the sheer number of books. I'd be at the library every other day. I really don't have time for that to be honest.
We don't buy books because we don't have the space to store them at all.
So I'd be taking out 50 books a week from the library.
It just seems kind of ridiculous.
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by LuckyStar
This whole tracking your reading thing annoys the hell out of me. DD reads with either me or DH every night before bed and we will continue to do so as she gets older. We do it because we enjoy it. It shouldn’t be a contest to see how many books a kid can read. What happens when the contest is over? What are kids learning from this?
I don’t know, it all seems so dumb to me.
I hate reading logs. What a chore.
I sometimes just BS them because to be honest- she reads. She does it when she has time and when she feels like it.
If she reads more on the weekend when she is not "required " to because she has more time than during the week with homework and activities, then so be it.
I'll put down what she read on Saturday as Monday's reading and call it a day.
I don't even think the teacher looks at these logs to be honest.
Just more work for ME to worry about after working all day and getting home after 6 and having to deal with dinner, etc.
Enough.
my parnets' totoally used tolie & sign my form saying i read 30 minutes or whaever it was in 3rd grade, which I never did on weeknights becuase it took me too lonf to do my homework, but I was always reading on school breaks & on weekends if I didn't have homework.
I was the kid th at that didn't want to come to the dinner table because I wasn't finshed with my chapter, so my parents didn't get hung up on me reading on the school's schedule.
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WannaBeAMom11
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1,000 books for kindergarten
She actually is getting 10 books a week home from school. We have 2 weeks to read and return. They aren’t rigid on the 1,000 but it’s a challenge to see how many we can read. Some are very short so we read 2 last night and 1 at breakfast. Next year it’s a 1,000 book challenge for 1st grade but they don’t send home books which is why I’m asking for suggestions because my cousin now has that challenge.
My 5 year old and 1 year old both sit still for books and we do it as a family every night.
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
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Posted by LuckyStar
This whole tracking your reading thing annoys the hell out of me. DD reads with either me or DH every night before bed and we will continue to do so as she gets older. We do it because we enjoy it. It shouldn’t be a contest to see how many books a kid can read. What happens when the contest is over? What are kids learning from this?
I don’t know, it all seems so dumb to me.
I hate reading logs. What a chore.
I sometimes just BS them because to be honest- she reads. She does it when she has time and when she feels like it.
If she reads more on the weekend when she is not "required " to because she has more time than during the week with homework and activities, then so be it.
I'll put down what she read on Saturday as Monday's reading and call it a day.
I don't even think the teacher looks at these logs to be honest.
Just more work for ME to worry about after working all day and getting home after 6 and having to deal with dinner, etc.
Enough.
my parnets' totoally used tolie & sign my form saying i read 30 minutes or whaever it was in 3rd grade, which I never did on weeknights becuase it took me too lonf to do my homework, but I was always reading on school breaks & on weekends if I didn't have homework.
I was the kid th at that didn't want to come to the dinner table because I wasn't finshed with my chapter, so my parents didn't get hung up on me reading on the school's schedule.
That's exactly what i mean. I am not a fan of hard and fast and strict rules.
Reading should be enjoyable not a chore.
A lot of the stuff done in school and more the WAY they do it turns me off.
Like my DD at 8 (and in younger grades too!) has to write a personal mission statement.
W T F is that?
At 8?
I'm 44 and I never in my life had a personal mission statement.
What does an 8 year old know from a mission statement?
"Amass the most LOL dolls?"
Watch as many you tube vidoes as I can before my mom freaks out and takes the ipad away?"
"Parlay my skills with terrorizing the cat and become a veterinarian in the future?"
It just is ridiculous and turns me off.
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Re: 1,000 books for kindergarten
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by tourist
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Posted by LuckyStar
This whole tracking your reading thing annoys the hell out of me. DD reads with either me or DH every night before bed and we will continue to do so as she gets older. We do it because we enjoy it. It shouldn’t be a contest to see how many books a kid can read. What happens when the contest is over? What are kids learning from this?
I don’t know, it all seems so dumb to me.
I hate reading logs. What a chore.
I sometimes just BS them because to be honest- she reads. She does it when she has time and when she feels like it.
If she reads more on the weekend when she is not "required " to because she has more time than during the week with homework and activities, then so be it.
I'll put down what she read on Saturday as Monday's reading and call it a day.
I don't even think the teacher looks at these logs to be honest.
Just more work for ME to worry about after working all day and getting home after 6 and having to deal with dinner, etc.
Enough.
my parnets' totoally used tolie & sign my form saying i read 30 minutes or whaever it was in 3rd grade, which I never did on weeknights becuase it took me too lonf to do my homework, but I was always reading on school breaks & on weekends if I didn't have homework.
I was the kid th at that didn't want to come to the dinner table because I wasn't finshed with my chapter, so my parents didn't get hung up on me reading on the school's schedule.
That's exactly what i mean. I am not a fan of hard and fast and strict rules.
Reading should be enjoyable not a chore.
A lot of the stuff done in school and more the WAY they do it turns me off.
Like my DD at 8 (and in younger grades too!) has to write a personal mission statement.
W T F is that?
At 8?
I'm 44 and I never in my life had a personal mission statement.
What does an 8 year old know from a mission statement?
"Amass the most LOL dolls?"
Watch as many you tube vidoes as I can before my mom freaks out and takes the ipad away?"
"Parlay my skills with terrorizing the cat and become a veterinarian in the future?"
It just is ridiculous and turns me off.
WTF.. A mission statement. Most companies struggle with a mission statement.
I think they push kids too much.
My sons school has them switch classes in 5th grade, cant wait till 6 or 7th, lets do it early. Then to make matters worse each teacher has to have as a separate notebook. So now they have to carry a textbook, workbook and notebook for each class on top of everything. You have to see this puny little kid and his book bag.
Can we atleast use 5 subject notebooks like I did growing up? I know my son is a disorganized mess but can you throw me a bone here, please!!
ETA: sorry went on a personal rant there
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