Lark or Owl?

Gretchen Rubin has many labels for people. One category is larks and owls. 

Larks are early risers. They get up early and get their best work done in the morning. Owls are most productive at night.

I'm definitely a lark. I've been reading a book called the The 5 Am Club. Getting up extra early intrigues me, but until today, 5 am seemed a little extreme. I am someone who really needs 8 hours of sleep a night so to get up at 5 am I'd have to go to bed at 9 pm, which isn't always conducive to participating in activities with the rest of the world. 10 pm seems more reasonable to go to bed, but that means 6 am is the best wake up time. I will have to finish reading the book to find out if I'm convinced, but today a friend posted this. It is persuasive, if you ask me! 

Familiarity....It's Working!

They say that if you read to kids, they start to recognize authors and trends in stories. It's working! Today we read one of our Open Court stories, The Cat Who Became a Poet. We were flipping through the story to get some ideas of what is about and one of the kids said, "That witch looks like the pictures in Roald Dahl books." Quickly, someone grabbed one from their book box and said, "Hey! Quentin Blake's name is on this Roald Dahl book and it's on this story!"

Later, we read a story called Elinor by Barbara Cooney. They recognized the name right away because she also wrote Miss Rumphius, a book we read before the break. They had remembered that Barbara Cooney liked to write stories about family and so they had some guesses about what Elinor might be about. Sure enough, they were right!            Be still my heart!! I love it when a plan comes together!