Hawkrider123's money saving 2008 book reading challenge

hawkrider123

Thanks a lot for your encouragement. I hope you enjoy reading Michael Morpurgo's books and my first £1 is safely in the piggy bank.

hawkrider123

Lillibet wrote: »

Oh, and for poor spelling, a weekly game of Scrabble (maybe with a small prize?) helped me loads in my teenage years! I was allowed to "cheat" in that I could use a dictionary to check my words were correct before using my letters and that helped me enormously as the point was to improve my spelling & vocab rather than win according the exact rules;). I used to play with my Dad in the kitchen (Mum can't spell for toffee!) and we would have a special (easy) buffet tea, just things like a huge selection of cheese, crakers & pickles; prawns & dips; welsh raebit; occasionally a crab or lobster (when cheap!) with melba toast & it was also great one-2-one time with my Dad.

Lillibet

I have never played scrabble in my life but I have heard from other people that it is quite good.

I liked your story about playing scrabble with you Dad. I would have to have chocolate on my Saturday nights in.

Savvy_Sue

BTW hawkrider, if you write your posts all by yourself (ie without your mum correcting them!) I do not think your mum has much to worry about with your spelling. You may use that dreadful txtspk on MSN, but when you need to write proper English, you can clearly do so!

My older two boys always write correct English, even when they are texting, emailing, or using MSN, and their Dad and I do the same, although I can read txtspk if I have to. We all find it easier to do that because we can all touch type, so we don't have to think about what we're doing when we write like that. If we used txtspk we'd have to think a lot more. In fact my fingers tell me if I've made a mistake when typing, because the shape of the word 'feels' wrong.

My youngest uses txtspk on MSN and on the phone, fortunately he can write proper English too but he's rather lazy. This has backfired on him because he's got to do practice GCSE English papers over the holidays, to make sure he doesn't fail that exam in the summer! :rotfl:

hawkrider123

My mum thinks I am lazy too and my mum and step dad both hate me using text speak, but anyway I still do it. I find it easier to do text language than normal language;

wen im older I dunno wat I want 2 becum but I want lots o muny

I write my posts first and then my mum checks it to make sure I haven’t done anything bad. I learnt to touch type a little bit but I found it easier to use a finger from each hand because im lazy.

Last night when I went to bed I read three chapters of Stig of the Dump

ceridwen

hawkrider123 wrote: »

Thanks for your posts everybody! Parents you can set your own reward per book for this challenge. Mum is only paying me £1 per book as she thinks it will only cost her a tenner over the whole year.

My first book is Escape from Shangri-La by Michael Morpurgo. This didn't cost me anything cause my teacher gave it to me as a christmas prezzie.

Well :rotfl: - now why do I think she might come to "regret" that!!:rotfl: :rotfl: Only joking! Somehow I have the feeling you have the bit between your teeth now and are planning on turning bookreading into a nice little earner!:rotfl: Bet you have a decent bit of savings by the end of the year.:rotfl:

Lillibet_2

hawkrider123 wrote: »

Lillibet

I have never played scrabble in my life but I have heard from other people that it is quite good.

I liked your story about playing scrabble with you Dad. I would have to have chocolate on my Saturday nights in.

So drink hot choc & have a choccy bar as the prize. You can have theme nights too, only spelling verbs or adjectives or words ending in S or with a G in them or names of flowers or colours or words of less than 5 letters or things connected with world war 2 etc. Maybe Mum could ask on Freecycle for a Scrabble set for you & you could have a go? You could have a family games night with a bowl of popcorn & some music in the background, or challange visitors to a game. (Grandparents are usually up for it if they are still young enough to see the letters!).

Enjoyed your review & can't wait to see what you think of Stig, I loved that book!

Hope you have a fab Christmas & get lots of new reading material!;)

whitewing

Oh it has been great to read all your comments. He is still pretending that he's not that bothered about reading but it's early days yet, and he does come up and read over my shoulder to see if any new comments have been added.

However, in true mathematician style, he's actually very interested in beating my 'thanks: post ratio', and also loves to check the 'views' total. So even the lurkers are doing their bit.

Bless him!

haylibo

(My first £1 earnt! WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well deserved, a great review! You'll love stig of the dump.
x

littleowl

hawkrider123 - you might like Alan Garner's books, for example: The Wierdstone of Brisingamen; The Moon of Gomrath; Elidor etc.

littlepinky84

What a great idea, will need to remember it for when my ds is older. If my mum had of done this wth me i would be loaded lol, i love reading, my mum said that one day i hated reading and the next i loved it and always had my head in a book and still do,

Hawkrider i hope you have a nice sum of savings by the end of the challange, good luck