A World of Learning

 Two of the kids I tutor, I teach reading and math skills to. Half an hour of math, half an hour of reading-related activities and comprehension. All at expected grade level, unless the student needs to work their way up from where they are to get to where they need to be.  I prefer teaching reading, spelling, and grammar, as that has always been what I'm better at. So I can think of activities relating to these subjects much more easily than I can math activities, especially ones that are at least somewhat "not boring!" 😊 So I've been looking up ideas online, and as I have mentioned in previous posts, I found a website called Teachers Pay Teachers. They have a lot of free ideas, as well as sets of lessons that can be purchased.  I just found a multiplication activity sheet for the third grader I'm tutoring. I've been focusing on multiplying with him, as that is an area he needs to grow stronger in, as well as in knowing his "skip counting," which t...

 Happy St. Patrick's Day!  I love getting into the holidays, no matter what the occasion! Apparently, the kids I tutor do too. You simply have to wear green on St. Paddy's Day! Although in Ireland, you wear green if you're Catholic and you wear orange if you're Protestant, which I am. But I still like to "fit in" and wear green on St. Patrick's Day! Here are some fun photos of me with the kids I tutor, all of us wearing green!

 One of the boys I tutor enjoys reading informational books rather than fiction. Right now he's reading a book that I took him to the library and he picked out himself. It's about animals living in different habitats. He was reading right along when he said "with sof, thick ... I'm reading it exactly like it says." I didn't catch what he had said at first, then he showed me the typo. We both had a chuckle about it, but I knew from his catching the typo that he was really paying attention to what he was reading. Then, a few days later, I was reading and caught a typo in that book! I have had a few books self-published and yes, there are a few typos in them, despite them having been proofread several times. But it always surprises me when I find mistakes in other published works. So I thought I'd point them out here.