"I cannot live without books." -Thomas Jefferson

Today after PALS, an amazing mom came inside in below freezing weather to share with us how PALS has changed her son's outlook on reading.  She said that before he started staying after school with us reading was a chore that she had to force him into and now he follows her around with books all day long.   That morning, he even read to her in the car on the way to school!  Hearing this was the perfect end to another amazing meeting!  

The kids have officially read, 193 books!  I forgot to take a picture of our book count, but I believe we will hit 200 next meeting!  If you're a parent, don't tell the kids!! It's a surprise! 

"The stories we love best live in us forever." -JK Rowling

The quote I chose this week is inspired by two PALS, who each week they are together choose the same book.  They find "Bike Lessons" so hilarious they have in memorized and choral read it together, while acting it out, discussing the moral of the story, and laughing the entire time!  It is so fun to see this kind of joy between two boys so far apart in age created all by a book.  With Valentines Day a few days away, we took the time to write our PALS little Valentines Day notes and share why we love each other and the time we share together.  

Current Book Count: 168

Alright wrestlers, we need you back!

From one of our sixth graders to a kindergartener!

To my Number 1 PAL!

These two boys and this book!! A story that will live in them forever!

Chapter book readers!

Sibling that read together, learn together.

One of the many 100% AR tests taken this week at PALS!

Almost to the party!

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." -Frederick Douglass

This week was another fun week at PALS!  Seeing students' faces light up as their reaching their AR goals or just enjoying a funny part of a story gives me so much joy!  Our book count is up to 124!

Smiling so big that it hurts!

Sibling P.A.L.S. are the cutest!

Jarrell asked me this week if we could have PALS every day after school!

I so miss having these two sweet boys in my class!  Love taking the time to sit down and hear how amazing they read as second graders!

Welcome to the P.A.L.S. blog!

Our readers have been having an awesome time at P.A.L.S. for a little over a month, so I decided to try out blogging to show everyone our perfect students!  My hope is that here parents can get a glimpse into our club meetings, stay updated with current information, and also see ridiculously cute pictures of our kids!

Two weeks ago, I made a reading tracker to challenge our Reading P.A.L.S. to read 200 books!  I've promised a PALS Party if we make our goal and I think I might have made the goal too small! We're only two meetings into using this tracker and they have already read 94 books.  Looks like the party will be sooner than anticipated.

Kennedi and Amaria have been P.A.L.S. since our first meeting!

Our P.A.L.S. are working on meeting their AR Goals!  We hope to see all of them in the next AR Parade!

The Varsity Wrestlers took a break from practice to come to P.A.L.S. this week!  The kids loved hearing about what it's like to be on a varsity team in high school.

De'Marcus is challenging Jailen with the Chronicles of Narnia. 

We love reading and each other!