at home reading tutoring part 14

We didn't have tutoring last Monday, since it was not a school day.  Mrs. Banks did come over for his weekly session on Thursday.  SJ was difficult to coax down the stairs as usual, but somehow Mrs. Banks managed to get him to cooperate. 

She knows he likes to ski, so she brought him a Reader's Theater that had a skiing theme. (He still seemed to complain about having to read that day.)  She explained to him that she didn't have to bring him plays about things he likes.  The play was called "Packing for the Skiing Trip" by Patti Hutchison.  He was whining that he didn't know what to pack for a ski trip, but Mrs. Banks could see all of our ski gear lying around the basement.  She pointed it out to him and questioned if he really didn't know what you take.  He couldn't fight that point.

There were only two characters, a man and a woman.  Of course, SJ chose to be the man.  They were discussing what to pack for the trip and SJ's character seemed so clueless as to what he was to pack.  It is pretty coincidental that she brought this play, since we will be going on a ski trip in the next few weeks. 

Next, they worked on a poem about sledding.  After they read the poem, SJ had to color some of the kid cutouts.  He didn't want to color the girls, so Mrs. Banks colored those two.  Then, SJ had to draw some hills on a big piece of manila paper.  Mrs. Banks had him cut the lines that were the hills.  They attached paper clips to the back of the sledders and inserted them into the cut lines.  This is the end result. 



She told me it was a little rough at first, but he did finally pull himself together and work for her.  I keep thinking he will get over being so resistant to the tutoring, but so far that has not been the case.  Regardless of whether he likes it or not, it is definitely helping his grades and that is all that matters.