A nice capper to the story, though it felt to me that Ramona won against Mrs. Griggs because her teacher was tired.
Guts is the bad word? Ha!
Also did a fair amount of writing practice of these new hiragana.
Went back and picked up a prior section because I was more curious to begin practicing writing my hiragana. There’s some interesting linguistics material and beginning grammar in this section. I’ll have to come back to it and practice some more to absorb both the vocabulary and the grammar.
Ramona broods at home with a baby sitter while her parents learn about the Owl Incident. Ramona spends the first night in her new room.
“Oh, I see,” said Mrs. Kemp, a remark Ramona knew grown-ups made when they were not interested in conversation with children.
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… although fathers, Ramona knew, did not spend as much time as mothers thinking up ways to improve their children.
Sadly probably true, but awfully sexist nonetheless.
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Ramona lay in bed with her thoughts as jumbled as a bag of jacks.
What a great little simile here.
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Ramona doesn’t sleep at night and gets cranky and tired. A chapter with a lot of inner turmoil about a first grader.
I still need to do some clean up work, but generally they look reasonable enough.
You can force me to make a new one by giving me something off my wishlist.
Adding back some simple tweaks I’ve made over the last year to potentially add as a pull request on Github.
Spent some time working on improving my actual writing skills as well.
So far I’m really liking this book after having looked at a list of many others over the past year. It quickly covers a lot of simple stuff that was otherwise hard won by reading bits and pieces of other books. They do an exceptionally good job of laying out the beginning pieces. I appreciate some of the workbook like exercises which make this a better book for a much broader range of learners.
Sped through some of the early pieces because I’ve got some reasonable experience with many of these parts
The comment about Ramona being brave comes from this relatively lackluster chapter in which Ramona gets upset with her apparent choice of being called a tattletale or allowing Susan to be a terrible copycat. I can attest that the picture of a six year old making a growl-ly face and panther hands is true to life.
That wicked Howie and his need to stick to a hyper-strict version of the facts. If only we had more in government like him.
I really love the idea of playing Brick Factory!
