summer reading tutoring #4

Last Tuesday was SJ's reading tutoring day.  He was so tired!  I woke him up at 8:30 and he practically slept walked downstairs.  Normally, I wouldn't care, but we had to be at Mrs. Banks' house at 9 a.m.  He was only able to eat about half of a bowl of cereal and then we were out the door. 

I was concerned that SJ was going to be uncooperative with Mrs. Banks, since he was so tired.  When I picked him up after his session, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that he was anything but uncooperative.

Mrs. Banks said he worked very well for her.  They started out the session by continuing to read 2 more chapters from The Island: Survival.  She said he did a very nice job.  He was engaged and read when it was his turn.  She said they are at the point in the novel where the kids find a body.  That was very interesting to SJ.

Next, they worked on a glyph.  SJ had to decide what color to circle the girl with the sunhat (red-he likes to go swimming), the color of the first three letters (pink-he stays home over the summer break), the color of the kids' hair (red-he reads a few times a week), the color of the boy's clothes (yellow and green-he takes out the trash and helps in the garden), the color of the girls' clothes (purple-he hopes we travel south to the beach) and what kind of face to draw on the last child (frown face-he feels sad when summer is over).  He also had to finish the following sentence and write his answer on the line under the kids.  The summer is a great time to hang out.  See the finished glyph.

 

 

They finished the session with another round of Doodle Dice.  Mrs. Banks said he did much better with the game this time.  Considering that we had a rough start to the morning, I was more than pleased that he did very well with his tutoring session.