Ella started reading her first chapter book today! A neighbor, Betsy Burke, who has grown boys, gifted us with an old cardboard box filled with dozens of wonderful easy readers. Among all the fascinating titles and covers, Ella selected "Dolphins at Daybreak," by Mary Pope Osborne which, she proudly announced, has ten chapters. She sat down to read and had just turned the first page when it dawned on her.
"Mom."
"Yes?"
"I need a bookmark! Can I make one?"
"Sure," I said. "Great idea. In fact, why don't you make one for your scriptures so that you can mark your place during scripture study, and one for whatever book you're reading?"
Ella ran upstairs to gather her craft supplies and settled down at the kitchen table while I bathed Audrey. When I came downstairs a few minutes later, she was finished, but only had one bookmark.
"I thought you were going to make two."
"I only need this one," she said, proudly. "It's reversible."
Sure enough, she had decorated one side with several bits of paper for a patterned effect -- for her readers -- and the other side with a crayon drawing and the word, "Gob" -- for her scriptures, obviously.
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