at home reading tutoring part 5

Last Monday, SJ had his after school reading tutoring. He wasn't too happy to get back into his routine after Thanksgiving break. Oh well! He kept telling me to cancel it, but there was NO WAY that was going to happen.

Mrs. Banks started out the session by telling SJ that they were going to read three different stories about foods. Then, he would need to fill in circles that pertained to the foods in the three different stories. The foods were fruitcake, gingerbread and pumpkin pie. SJ wanted to just fill in the chart without reading the stories. Mrs. Banks told him to go ahead, but he may need to change his answers after reading the stories.

He quickly filled out the chart that had 8 food traits. They then read the different stories. Sure enough, SJ had answered many of the selections incorrectly. Mrs. Banks allowed him to change his answers once he had all the correct information.

Next, she showed him a coloring page of an elf. She then presented him with a glyph. The glyph gave him directions depending on how SJ would answer the questions. For example: How do you unwrap presents? If he unwraps them carefully, he needed to color the elf's shoes light green. If he rips the wrapping paper into shreds, he needed to color the shoes dark green. This is the finished elf after SJ answered the remaining 7 questions.  They decided the elf's shirt color, pant color, where the star would be drawn, hat color, eye color and where SJ's favorite toy would be drawn.  He did a great job on the elf glyph.

Even though he was reluctant to have tutoring, Mrs. Banks said he did a very nice job. I am glad that he is working hard for her (even if it is unwillingly).