Awake

Lemons are not red

Ruth and I read Lemons Are Not Red last night. A great book with simple cut-outs to enhance the semantics of color. It also helps with the meaning of "is", "is not", "are", "are not"...that crazy verb "to be"; it's a troublesome creature for certain. Ruth's problem with reading the word "is" has been that she pronouces the word "in" instead...subtle but significant. By the end of our session, she was starting to recognize "is" roughly 50% more of the time than she did before. Go Ruth!

More good news for Ruth: she worked three days this week and was scheduled to work today as well. Unfortunately it's doing laundry for a hotel, but even though she was exhausted and headachey all day, she was grateful to be working. (I wish there was another way...)

And yes, Handy Teacher Amber was on hand again to fix the moody flourescent light bulb connection in the kitchen. (She was cooking in the dark for crying out loud, I had to fix it. She confirmed that her apartment manager is worthess and good-for-nothing. That makes me so mad. Arrrgh.)