des Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 I know some of you are parents and some of you maybe teachers. Anyway, I maybe have said that I am a special ed. teacher and doing tutoring which is esp. slow in the summer. I have gotten some brochures made for a summer reading club, which would mostly be small groups of up to 4 kids, 2 hours a day, 3 days a week for two weeks. Here is some copy from the middle page of the brochure: (alll formatting is lost, oh well). SUMMER READING CLUB Work on: Reading comprehension, study skills, writing, creative and fun activities. Keep up skills or jump start new ones. Sessions available for: * Students going into 3rd- 4th grade. * Students going into 5th- 6th grade. *Early readers (going into 1st -2nd grade). Phonics. Sound awareness. Games, songs, and art activities. * Special Harry Potter session for your “Harry Potterite”! Read *another* book and work on comprehension, writing and study skills. PLUS many Harry Potter activities-- drink “butter beer”, have a costume party, build Hogwarts, and MORE. * 3 week session with any student with trouble in reading, spelling, handwriting and/or keyboarding, writing skills, or basic math (up to and including fractions). Limited enrollment. Call today: phone no. deleted. On the front, I have a little blurb like do you want your child to read more, play fewer video games, etc.; on one side I have more detailed info; and on the back I have some bio info. I'm going to take to the some local schools, bookstores, etc. etc. Any book recommendation. I am looking for books with a theme, so the HP related one will be something else but with castles, etc. I am not a big Narnia or LOR fan. I have ideas for th$8e little kids one of a Dr. Seuss book where we make a Dr. Seussish character, and a fable book where we make animal puppets with a possibility of puppet shows, etc. Other theme oriented ones would be somethign where we could do a diarama say of the ocean or anything else that would lead to a theme oriented project that would be fun for kids. I am good at the arts and crafts stuff. Also I am thinking of charging $80/ 2 week session. This is based on two things. Taking my regular tutoring rate and dividing by 4 (highest enrollment) and adding a materials charge (just not calling it anything). Also the going rate for various arts, music, etc camps and classes taught by pros vs teens and stuff is $12/hr. Keep in mind I am in a little city not like in CA or NY. What do you think anybody? Also anybody knows any parent or teacher related sites with books and activities?? Anyway I asked all this in the ld group I am on, but I know at least some of you are parents and/or teachers? --des Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynthia Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 Looks good des - Other obsessive books are the Lemony Snicket, Series of Unfortunate Events... Hilarious! Boys (especially) love Animorphs - very cool... huge series of over 100 books... they were very big a few years ago, it has died off now, but provides a great set of books to hook a reader. They are best read in order. Artemis Fowl is popular. There is a great Animatronics series of little paper books in a cardboard binder (3 levels, I think) for beginning readers. Beats Bob books by miles!!! The rate sounds quite reasonable. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des Posted May 7, 2005 Author Share Posted May 7, 2005 (edited) Thanks for suggestions. I am staying away from Lemony Snicket, as I think the kids are reading these like crazy anyway. BTW, I wasn't able to find the Animatronics series. Is there some other name these go by. Another book I've thoguht of for the Harry Potter group is A Wrinkle in Time. This is pretty much a classic, I think. --des Edited May 7, 2005 by des Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynthia Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 A Wrinkle In Time is great - it is the first in a trilogy. The animatronics is near the bob books at borders and b and N... hard cardboard, small, with 10 paper books inside in plastic sleeves. We are out of that stage, so I have passed mine on... I'll try to remember to look next time I'm at the bookstore. Animorphs is the older kids series... the library has them here; so do used book stores, I think they may be out of print. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des Posted May 7, 2005 Author Share Posted May 7, 2005 Did a neat little search in Amazon and came up with a few Egypt books. That has a lot of possiblities as a theme. I'm going to look out for those Animatronics books when I research this at the library. --des Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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