I am a silly, silly girl. That's all there is to say about that.

I tutored on my own yesterday for two hours. Hopefully I made my point that I'm not just going along for the ride on my partner's coattails. Honestly, I think I did a great job of getting my student to talk. We read two books by Peter H. Reynolds ("Ish" and "The Dot"). If you haven't read any books of his, you should. They are beautiful in their simplicity. Very much a feel-good genre.

I chose those books because my student loves art. We talked about the different things she's been learning in art, and I shared a few things I remembered from all my elementary and middle school art projects. Then she read a Curious George book and part of a Magic Tree House book ("Buffalos Before Breakfast") in which the characters are transported to the Great Plains. That sparked a discussion about the United States. I drew her a ridiculously bad sketch of the shape of the United States and pointed out Florida and Illinois (where I used to live) and Utah (also used to call home) and told her a bit about the pioneers who crossed those plains on foot. I'm not sure how much of that she absorbed, but at least she was exposed to a fluent English speaker.