Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Friday, April 25, 2008

Learning to read

April 22, 2008

Over the year Hokulani has improved so much in her reading abilities. She also gets a turn while we read the Book of Mormon as a family. She amazes us when she reads words like "Lamanites", and "groweth". Hokulani also makes us laugh when she doesn't read carefully or tries to guess the word instead of sounding it out. She often reads "God" as "good".

For her homework (once a week), Hokulani used to have to do a book report that required writing the title, author, and illustrator, and drawing a picture of her favorite part of the story. Soon she excelled past that level, and moved on to doing book reports requiring the title, author, illustator, main characters, and writing about her favorite part of the story. We're so proud of her!
Hokulani also loves borrowing books from the library. She is allowed to borrow as many books as she wants, but I have limited her to as many as she can carry in the box we take to the library. Hokulani likes it when we read to her, but she is also eager to read on her own.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Reading books

September 18, 2007

I, Carmel, have been doing a lot more reading lately. It all started when I started reading books my oldest daughter borrowed from the library. They were interesting; however, I realized that I should be reading books more at my level.

Through a friend of mine, I found this website called Goodreads:




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and I would like to talk with other people--particularly, friends or relatives of mine--about books we've read or would like to read. Unfortunately, since this is new for me. . .you know reading books that are not just for children, I don't have a lot of recommendations for "must-read" books.

Let me know which books you like, and maybe I'll check them out, especially if they're available at our local library. I have to read them for FREE. :)

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter 7

It's August 2, 2007 and I finished reading the final Harry Potter book (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) last night! I'm so excited because I haven't been able to read the book straight through a couple days. I had to read it before going to bed or whenever I had time between going out and visiting with friends and family.
HP7 was exciting throughout, and I won't say anything about it (in case you're still reading it). If you're reading the book, then I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. If you're not reading the book, then get going!

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