Awwwww, ain't that cute.

My tutee moved away. This is sad. Apparently, the prospect of me helping her with math was a little too scary. I understand. Fully.

I did get a new tutee, though, and we had our first session yesterday. We worked on the concepts of “less than” and “greater than” (hey, it’s tougher than you thought!) and counting by fives. My tutee was a math-star out in the hall when no one else was around. Try taking him into the classroom though with all the other kids and he couldn’t concentrate for a second. Really, now, this is starting to sound a lot like me.

In the “funny interactions with kids”-file, he asked me what grade I was in. I said

“I’ve been in school so long that they stopped counting grades.”

This impressed him.

I’m glad it impresses somebody.