Learning to read

So since I have gone through my early experience with books and going to the library and being introduced to reading I should probably discuss my experience with learning to read. Unfortunatly I do not have any interesting stories about learning to read. I did not stuggle with it nor did I pick it up super quickly. It kind of just happend. I do recall one of the first book I read, and when I mean books I mean series.



When I was in Duzine I was nuts about the Magic Tree House books. I loved reading them all the time. They were so great because they were so easy to read. I also liked reading them because although they were easy to read they had chapters so it made them seem like they were a higher reading level. I also loved that Jack and Annie would get to go on all of these great adventures but they would always be back before there parents noticed they were gone. I also enjoyed them because I could read them in a day or two and when I was done with one book, I could just move on to the next in the series.

More visits to the library

So another memory I have about early reading was going to story hour at the Elting Library and at the Rosendale library. Along with going to story hour sometimes at the Elting Library people would come and preform for us. Sometimes people would put on plays or skits and sometimes people would sing songs. I would have fun going with my Friends and watching.

Another memory I have about reading and visiting the library is that every year I would do there summer program. During the Summer reading program everyone who participated would be required to read a book from a variety of genres and would be required to write about what you thought of the books you read. Also every year there would be a required project everyone would have to do one your favorite book. The projects were generally easy, one year everyone who participated had a piece of fabric and they would have to draw a character from there book on the fabric. At the end of the program they put all of the scraps of fabric together to make a quilt for the library. Also at the end of the program everyone who fulfilled the requirements received a little prize like a button or a key chain with the theme of the year written on it.

First experiences reading

So for the first task we were assigned to discuss first experiences with reading. Well for me personally my grandmother is a librarian, my sister is a librarian and my mom is a preschool teacher, so being surrounded by books was kind of inevitable. Every Friday morning my mom will walk down Main Street with her preschool class and walk down to the library. When I went to preschool I would do the same thing. My mom can recall that any time I would like a book I would want to take it out week, after week.

One book I can recall reading over and over again was called Pigs in the Pantry. It was part of a series but I only cared about the one book. In the story the there is a family of pigs and they are starving but they have no food in there house and they have no money, so they end up searching there entire house for spare change to pay for there meals. I am not sure why I loved this book so much but I guess the thought of paying for a meal in nickles found from under the bed is kind of funny. I think another reason I liked the book so much was because I have never been a fan of math and this was one of my first experiences with math and counting that was positive. I also like that at the end of the book the family ends up going to a restaurant called the Whole Enchilada, and on one of the pages they show a cool menu of all food the pigs might have eaten.