Yesterday I sat at the airport waiting for my hubby to arrive so I started listening to the Michael Crichton book, Next. So far it’s pretty interesting. Still getting bits and pieces of several story lines so I am anxious to see how they will all fit together. Listening to books on [...]
Even after 5 months of weekly reading to the 3rd graders, it is still one of the highlights of my week. The latest student-teacher really looks forward to my visits as well. Even when the kids are a bit wiggly, she says they are at their best when I’m there. It is [...]
I had another fun Friday with the 3rd grade kids. This week I read Brush.; a story about a boy and his pet brush. I originally thought that the book would take longer than 10 minutes to read, but as it turned out, we had plenty of time. I’m sure I’ve [...]
Well, another Friday with the Rolling Reader program. The kids remembered that I would be bringing a book about bridges. There a couple who just can’t contain themselves and want to make comments even before I get started. The teacher’s aide was in charge of the class when I arrived and she got [...]
After I had such good beginner’s luck reading to the 3rd grade students last week, I figured I might not get so lucky this week. Well, I’m happy to report that this week it went just as well. Last Saturday Kevin and I went to the library to find a new choice for [...]
I had a very interesting 30 minutes today reading to a small class of 3rd grade kids. One of my neighbors asked me to help out and I figured it’s only 30 minutes, how bad could it be. The details of where and when I was to go weren’t really worked out ahead of time, [...]