summer reading tutoring #3

On Tuesday, SJ had his weekly reading tutoring with Mrs. Banks.  They started out the session by reading a short story on the Fourth of July.  Mrs. Banks said he did very well with the story.  After the story, she had him do an I Spy type sheet.  It was a picture about the Fourth of July and SJ had to find all 10 items.  He also did very well with this activity too.  See the attached papers.

Then, she had SJ make up some words to be inserted into a Mad Lib style story.  These were his words and his story with his words inserted.

verb  burn

adjective  firey

adjective  scary

noun, plural  people

verb  crying

adjective  happy

verb, past tense  fired

noun  fire

noun  wood

verb  sleep

adjective  hot

noun  house

verb, past tense  swam

noun, plural  mosquitoes

verb  scream

adjective  surprising

 

Sky of Fire

 

Sue could hardly burn.  She was old enough to stay up late.  She would see her first fireworks show.

Mom packed a "firery" supper.  There were thick sandwiches and red watermelon slices.  There were scary people in the watermelon.  Sue looked forward to seeing how far she could crying them.

Mom also made lemonade.  It was sure to taste good during the happy evening.

Dad fired everything in the fire.  It was good to arrive early to get a good seat. 

It seemed like the wood would never go down.  Sue and her parents ate their supper.  Sue spit so many watermelon seeds she was sure they would sleep a million hot watermelons.  Finally, the sun went down.  The house changed from blue to black.  Then the fireworks swam in the sky.

Up it went, and then it exploded into a ball of color.  Then many squiggly mosquitos went up.  Some of the fireworks made a scream.  Groups of shooting colors went up. 

Sue was so happy to see the sky fill with fire.  It was more exciting than she thought it would be.  She sighed.  What a surprising night! 

 

The last thing they worked on was to continue reading from the Island book. They read chapters 3 and 4.  Mrs. Banks said Chapter 3 was short, but Chapter 4 was very long.  She was waiting for him to complain (which he did a little) and she offered to read more of it.  As she was reading Chapter 4, she said he stopped her and asked her if he could read.  She said absolutely that he could.  I was glad that he is getting over his fear of reading.  I am also glad that he is doing such a nice job for Mrs. Banks this summer.