Ms.+Garbrecht

8/2/09 Hey Fellow Readers, I want you to know that I have started my second enjoyable book this summer! I finished "19 Minutes" in three weeks. Now, I plan to read "My Sister's Keeper" I have already seen the movie, and know the ending, but I now want to get my own "movie in my head" as I read. I also plan to begin the two required texts for school. Believe it or not, we teachers have homework over the summer!!!!!!

Hey Readers!

When I was in school, I wasn't the best reader and I wasn't the worst reader, I was just a non-reader. In college studying to be a teacher, if the professor had given us a choice to create 50 learning centers or read a book, guess what my choice would've been!

In the year of the millenium (2000) I decided to have a goal of reading, and over the course of 2 years, I read over 20+ something books. I haven't read for pleasure since then, but the last couple of years, I find myself reading articles about READING! (talk about an oxymoron) a non-reader reading about reading!

As I read my text books, I hope to post some little tidbits of what I have learned!

Ms. G.

P.S. when I take the time, I will add pizzazz to this page!

7/20/2009 Fellow Readers, During summer school, Mrs. Mirich, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Zimmer and I were talking about reading enroute to Billings. Mrs. Zimmer suggested I read 19 Minutes. Due to an unexpected/unplanned vacation (long story), I dropped out of my linguistics class and for the last 10 days, I have read DAILY the book 19 minutes. I am more than halfway done! I can't believe that at times I chose to read rather than watch the movie the airline was showing (long flight)! As Mrs. Zimmer wrote, it is an adult book, but there were so many connections that I made with the book, as a teacher, a parent, and being the victim of a bully. I do know now, that I intend to read more books from Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper).

6/22/09 Fellow Readers! I am almost halfway finished with my required reading for my on-line class that begins in July!!! As you know I am not much of a reader, and a textbook to boot! I have been learning about our alphabet, how it began, and about manuscript/cursive writing. I made this connection and find it interesting, that caligraphy is a form of writing, and writing is the written form of speaking. I have a passion for this decoding/phonics stuff, and I do caligraphy. I am beginning to wonder if in another life, I was one of those scribes!!!!!

6/27/09 Just a quick note. I am halfway finished with my first textbook. My class starts in a week, and I am a bit a head of schedule!!!

The other day, Mrs. Motsick wrote that she has been doing her on-line class stuff and even takes her laptop to her son's baseball game. This past weekend, my son played in a 3-on3 basketball tourney in Buffalo and I read my text in between games. I can't believe I did that!!!!!

Keep Reading!!!! Ms. G