A World of Learning

 There's a boy that I tutor who is quite advanced in reading and spelling, so I decided to try how he did with grammar. I wrote down a story and purposely made a lot of grammatical errors, like not capitalizing words, adding commas where the didn't belong, leaving out apostrophes, and not putting quotation marks around something someone said. He had a bit of a harder time with it! We didn't even get through the whole one-page story with all of the other things we did. He'll have to finish it up next week. 😉 PS - we'll need to work on his neat handwriting next!

 She did it! One of the six-year-olds I tutor has finally read all of the Bob Books in my collection, and has been learning lists of words that are specific to a story called Squirrel's Fun Day by Lisa Moser. Well, she remembered all the words and was able to read almost every word from chapter one! She did a great job! She's also learning how to sound out letters and blends endings like -ch or beginnings (-ch) and br- and so on. She's learning fast! I'm so proud of her!  Here is a picture that the girl's mom snuck while I was working with her! I'm glad she did!

 It's the time of year for giving, which I love doing! I like to think of the special people in my life, and that includes the kids that I tutor! I found some bags of freeze-dried candy, like Skittles, and chose the sour ones for the boys and tropical fruit ones for the girls (I don't have a picture of Adalyn because her last tutoring session was cancelled). I'll try and get her gift to her soon. But I love the reactions the kids had when they saw what they got - they were all so happy! (Kids and candy!)  I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! My next post will probably be next year! Have a great one! 

 Planning, planning, planning. Tutoring work takes a lot of planning. Especially when I've got three different age groups and two different subjects. I decided that it would be easier to have the kids all play the same game on Mondays, when I tutor three of them in reading and writing. I always start out our lesson with having the student read their growing word list, or having them read sight words on flash cards. Then they read from a book at their reading level, and I write down any words they had a hard time pronouncing, to add to their word list. Then comes the learning game. I usually plan a different game for each student for Mondays, but the last two weeks I've had them play the same game (word spelling ball toss one week, and the cup game the other week). Next week I'm going to try and have all of the kids play word/number Bingo. It's harder because I made the Bingo cards myself, and I only have two double-sided ones. So that means two different kids can play a...