Reading Progress report

At the beginning of September, I reported 117 books read, or.looking at the data another way,3 million words read. Today, thirty four days later, we're up to 882 books reported read,or 21,151,123 words. I should explain that we don't count the books read by the students; we count the number of quizzes the students have passed on the books they have read. So the number of tests is always running behind the number of books read.
This year, we started at a distinct disadvantage: our Library Clerk unexpectedly took a leave of absence for family reasons, and the school library was clsoed for the first month of school. We finally found a wonderful substitute library clerk, Martha Paulos, and the library is now functioning well again. This means the kids are reading and testing at a much faster rate than the first month of school. I'm anticipating the number of books read per week here at Rancho to take another big upswing in the last two weeks of October.