Tutoring Summary # 2

Yesterday was my second tutoring session. I really enjoyed working with her. She is always enthusiastic when it comes to working on her math, even though she struggles a little with subtraction at this point in time. We worked on her summer reading question:

"The main character in your FICTION story is very important; but many times there is another character in the story who is also important to that main character and the story itself.

• Choose a character who is NOT the main character and explain why he/she is important to the story. 
• Write about how this story might be different if this character was not included in the book."

To me, it seems a bit hard for an almost third grader to grasp, but we did our best. I had her answer some questions about it. We can worry about putting it all together soon. We read through the one new non-fiction book on Christopher Columbus but we did not get to read the new fiction book-The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy. She will work on those for next week. 

She said something really profound yesterday:

"It doesn't matter what others think of you, it only matters what you think of yourself."

It's something I have to keep in mind as I keep going on through the weeks ahead. =)