Fall Reading Challenge

This is our reading tree (sorry for the weird background).
We spent the greater part of the afternoon making it.

I'm proud to say I didn't do anything on it except write down everyone's goals.
The kids did the rest all on their own. :-)
M. drew the tree, the squirrels (though they're hard to see in the pic), and the falling leaves on the left.
C. did the title and the falling leaves on the right.

I was inspired by Callipidder Days' Fall into Reading Challenge.

Here's how our tree is going to work:
I printed out a bunch of leaf templates on red, orange, brown, and yellow paper.
When someone finishes a book, we write the name of the book and the person's initials on a leaf.
Our goal is to have the tree full of leaves before the end of fall.
We all set goals of how many books we want to read.
I might also put a little fall sticker under each person's name for each book they read.

We're doing this from now until Dec. 22 (the first day of winter).
At the end of the challenge, whoever met or exceeded their goal will get a prize- perhaps
a new book. ;-)

The kids already have ideas for the next ones:
A snowman and snowflakes for the winter challenge,
a big flower and flower petals for the spring (or maybe a meadow to be filled with flowers),
a beach and sea shells for the summer.

I think this is a cute and fun idea to motivate them to read more.