Discouraged

Everything in this county is tightly regulated in a "If it is not explicitly allowed, it is forbidden" way. In particular, the library meeting rooms may "only be used for non-profit organizations holding a meeting or educational event that is open to the public". And the rooms are kept locked as a matter of policy.

9 years ago, when I was a tutor for the Literacy Council, we were regularly encouraged to use those rooms and they were not kept locked all the time, but locked up at the end of the day.

I suspect I will be reduced to the children's section again and trying to keep our voices down. Starbucks is not appropriate, nor is it a public service!!

Still annoying, but I will survive

Two libraries have Tutoring rooms for just the kind of thing I am trying to do! And fortunately, neither of them is super-far from where I live. The manager said that it is a little crowded to fit four chairs in there, but we should be able to.

Mathematics

Emily is demanding more math at home. I'd like to have a workbook or something, so I don't repeat and I actually make progress.

Her math (mathy) topics for kindergarten are graphs, measuring, making hypotheses, more than, less than and equal, counting to 31 and coins up to 19 cents. Also odd and even, positional words like over, under, left, right, in front and behind(?). And patterns and shapes.

So I probably want to avoid those topics, since they will be coming home in the homework. 

The curriculum guide has a few web sites for resources. The most promising so far is www.mathforum.org. (ETA: No, it's best for teachers who have a registration that lets them browse the whole site. For parents, I'm still trying to figure out the best.)