December 2010
21 posts
It is finished.
I AM FINISHED WITH THE FALL SEMESTER!
Thank you, Taylor, for demonstrating my enthusiasm. PEACEEEEE, CAMPUS.
Reading to kids pays off, research shows →
news-leader.com
It might be the dramatic page turns, the silly sounds or the shared anticipation that grows as a story unfolds. Perhaps it’s just hearing the voice of a loving adult narrate a nursery rhyme, animal misadventure or modern-day fairy tale. Whatever the reason, literacy advocates say magic happens when a young child is read to regularly. “I felt like they cared and they liked that I was reading,” said 11-year-old Marin Billionis, who was tucked between her parents Friday. “Some of the books I read so many times, I memorized them.”
Wrote a report on this recently.
I love you, too! Good luck on your finals, too! You seem to be plowing through your work like a champ so far :3
Ahhhhh, so far! I have now hit a stall and I’m watching Sing Off. Oops. :3
Sunday's Adventures in Studying
Day before finals week actually starts. Ensue panic mode.
- Listened to French workbook activities
- Wrote out answers to Marketing exam essay questions
- Finished half of my self portrait final for drawing class
- Read through notes for History of Publishing exam
- Typed out ballet vocabulary
- Read through said ballet vocabulary
- Am now panicking over whether I know said ballet vocabulary
- Ate a yogurt, wheat thins, chocolate bar, and stuffing
Tomorrow: ballet final; more powerhouse studying.
I might start tweeting all of my Christmas-related activities
…how long do you think it’ll take for my followers to get annoyed? Heh.
“When I was a girl,” she once told a friend, “I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things, and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I believe that. But one can never get quiet enough…”
— In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
