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Hello Friends,
As we begin a new year, I ask you to focus with me on the following two quotations. Thank you.
~Mahatma Gandhi
They grow there, firm as weeds among the stones.
~Charlotte Bronte
This month on WinkWorld, I will focus on Free Voluntary Reading (FVR) and another new section, Featuring my Friends (FmF). In addition, I am listing a few sites/blogs/wikis, which I am following. Prairie Pedagogy and Notes from the Real World follow.
One Laptop Per Child
www.laptopgiving.org
Buy one - give one to a child in a developing nation. My XO computer should be arriving this week. Stay tuned: A blog might follow.
Free Rice Project
www.freerice.com/
An amazing way to begin your day; it takes only a few minutes and will help your vocabulary, while simultaneously feeding hungry children.
The Animal Rescue Site
www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3
I have already adopted the world's best labrador, but you can always go and find the 2nd best.
Click and Donate a Mammogram
www.thebreastcancersite.com
The American Cancer Society has been having trouble getting enough of us to click daily to meet their quote for donating one per day to a woman who is less fortunate.
BoGo - Buy one Give one
www.bogolight.com
Buy one solar powered flashlight for yourself, and one will be given to someone in a developing nation. Help light the world.
FVR (Free Voluntary Reading)
My life is a book club-a daily/dynamic one. All of my dear friends and family read a lot, and they share. What do we do when we read something we love? We run and tell someone; we run to the phone; we get on email. We want to talk about the book.
This is my life - I read and tell my friends, family, and students; and they read and tell me about their books. We love it. We don't take tests on what we read, nor do we want to take tests. We only want to talk about our reading, and we want to read what everyone else is reading. It's contagious.
In what follows is a little glimpse into my December as I drove from SD to NM to AZ to NV to CA. It was a ~moveable feast~ of books. Enjoy.
All the books below are also located on Joan's FVR page: www.joanwink.com/fvr.html
Click on any of the ISBN links for more details.
Joan's Map of "FVR" Free Voluntary Reading States
www.joanwink.com/gifs3/fvr-map.jpg
Avid Readers in SD
Last month, Mary, an avid reader in SD, mentioned that Three Cups of Tea was the best book she had read recently. I now agree, and I'm now sharing my book (borrowed from an AZ friend) with a CA friend, who will return it so Dawn of NM can read it next.
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace…One School at A Time by Greg Mortenseon
ISBN-10: 0143038257
Karen, a new friend and colleague in SD mentioned,
The Blessing Stone by Barbara Wood
She described it as "an enchanting tale of the history of humanity." She then added, "I love books that make me laugh and cry and this one has done both!"
ISBN-10: 0312320248
And, for the very best book of this month, you'll have to read to the very bottom of FVR. ;-)
Avid Readers in NM
While spending Christmas with Dawn and The Three 'Lil New Mexicans, we were amazed at how much reading they do. They continue to be a home-without-TV, and it shows: Books everywhere all of the time.
The boys (Luke, 9, and Wyatt, 11) are reading:
Frindle by Andrew Clements
ISBN-10: 0689818769
Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stevenson
ISBN-10: 0439295785
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
ISBN-10: 074349282X
Artemis Fowl (Book 1) by Eoin Colfer
ISBN-10: 0786817070
Artemis Fowl (Book 2): The Arctic Incident
ISBN-10: 0786817089
City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
ISBN-10: 0060535032
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerilizza
The Field Guide (Book 1)
Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles
The Nixies Song
ISBN-10: 0689040342
Pendragon Series/Rangers Apprentice
The Ruins of Gorlan, Book 1
ISBN-10: 0399244549
The Burning Bridge, Book 2
ISBN-10: 0142408425
The Icebound Land, Book 3
ISBN-10: 0399244565
The Percey Jackson and the Olympian Series
The Lightning Thief, Book 1
ISBN-10: 0786838655
The Sea of Monsters, Book 2
ISBN-10: 0786856866
The Titan's Curse, Book 3
ISBN-10: 1423101456
Since I left, I hear they have again started
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN-10: 0618260307
Wynn, 8, has fallen in love with the Harry Potter books again. Did you know that the series is really all about Hermine? Or so Wynn says.
Happy Potter
ISBN-10: 0439887453
Dawn needs to write a little story about how many times she has read the Harry Potter series aloud, and how many times the kids have read it by themselves.
Dawn is reading.
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
ISBN-10: 1565125606
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
ISBN-10: 1400096278
What is the What by Dave Eggers
ISBN-10: 0307385906
Avid Readers in AZ
Ciudad de las Bestias by Isabel Allenda
ISBN-10: 0060510323
The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-Three Women Search for Understanding by Idliby, Oliver, and Warner
ISBN-10: 0743290488
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
ISBN-10: 0060572159
The Star Garden: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine by Nancy E. Turner
ISBN-10: 0312363168
Sarah's Quilt: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine and the Arizona Territories, 1906
by Nancy E. Turner
ISBN-10: 0312332637
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered
Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler
ISBN-10: 1594200947
Going Back to Bisbee by Richard by Richard Shelton
ISBN-10: 0816512892
And, of course, our beloved J.A. Jance Web of Evil
ISBN-10: 1416537074
Avid Readers in NV
Battle for Las Vegas: The Law Vs. The Mob by Dennis Griffin
ISBN-10: 0929712374
The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky, edited by Harry Daniels, Michael Cole, and James Wertsch
ISBN-10: 0521537878
Parallel Paths to Constructivism: Jean Piaget and Lev Vygtosky by Susan Pass
ISBN-10: 1593111452
Vygotsky's Legacy: A Foundation for Research and Practice by Margaret E. Gredler and Carolyn Claytor Shields
ISBN-10: 1593854919
Damage Control: Why Everything You Know About Crisis Management is Wrong
by Eric Dezenhall and John Weber
ISBN-10: 1591841542
Avid Readers in ID
Something of Value. Robert Ruark
ISBN-10: 0881840971
American Hunting Rifles: their Application in the Field for Practical Shooting by Craig Boddington
ISBN-10: 1571572236
Hunting the Land of the Midnight Sun by Alaska Professional Hunters Association (APHA)
ISBN-10: 1571572120
Back in CA
Avid Readers in CA
Sage-ing While Age-ing, by Shirley Maclaine
ISBN-10: 1416550410
The First Year of Parkinson's Disease: An Essential Guide for the Newley
Diagnosed, by Jackie Hunt Christensen
ISBN-10: 1569243727
Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox
ISBN-10: 0786888741
Best Book I've read this month:
The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
ISBN-10: 0316010804
Hurd Family Reading Log'07
(See previous logs.)
WW January 2007
www.joanwink.com/newsletter/2007/news0107-intro.html
WW March 2006
www.joanwink.com/newsletter/2006/news0206-intro.html
Denise, web-wizard for WinkWorld shares:
The results of the Hurd Family "reading for pleasure" for 2007 are in. As always the month by month varied as life interrupted. Denise managed 131 books for a total of 50,846 pages, while Shel read 147 and 54,729 pages. All this came from 67 different authors. Elliot finding "teen-age" life and computers more interesting this year read 38.
Unfortunately, we did not have time to watch any reality tv. : This made us ignorant around the water cooler discussions, but I guess we'll manage.
The biggest surprise this year was showing up to the library to pick-up our holds and finding books reserved for us that we hadn't requested. We use our computers to look up and reserve books (holds) and they get delivered to our little local library. The local librarian started putting books that they thought we would like on hold for us. Guess we got them trained!
Currently Denise is reading:
Duma Key, by Stephen King
ISBN-10: 1416552510
FmF (Featuring My Friends)
We begin. Last month I mentioned that I would begin to focus on great new and old books, which I happen to be reading. The first one I have chosen is the new book by James Crawford and Steve Krashen.
English Learners in American Classrooms: 101 Questions/101 Answers
Frankly, it is the book we have been waiting for in 2nd language acquisition. How many times, have I heard someone ask: What book should I choose for a language acquisition class: Now we have the answer. I will be using Crawford/Krashen, and I encourage you to consider ordering it. Just click on the ISBN and you'll be directed to the check-out line.
ISBN-10: 0545005191
Here are the reviews, which I found at Amazon. Enjoy.
5 Star Reviews on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0545005191/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
To Reference This Web Page
Wink, J. (2008, January).
WinkWorld: January 2008
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from www.joanwink.com/newsletter/2008/news0108-intro.html.