Tutoring

I have been assigned to tutor two kindergartners and a third grader. All of my tutees are related and are cousins. I tutor for America Reads at the Salvation Army Kroc Center and enjoy my job with the program. My two kindergartners are girls as well as my third grader. My third grader is very outgoing and says a lot of funny things. We are reading "Junie B. Jones is not a Crook," because she loves Junie B. books and I try to make learning fun for my tutees. For our first tutor session , tutors have to implement a 'Get to Know You' activity. I learned from from that activity that my third grade tutee LOVES to shop. So, I created an activity where she gets to pick 'x' amount of outfits with 'x' amount of items to represent multiplication problems. For example, to represent 3x2, she would have three outfits with two items. I am so happy because she mastered this standard on that day.

Next week, we are going to learn about adjectives and I am going to make a One Direction ( a boyband) poster with pictures, descriptions, and facts about the bandmates. She will write ten sentences about each member based on the information or pictures on the poster. She REALLY LOVES One Direction. Her little cousins do too and I had them learn how to count to twenty by playing musical chairs and the music I played was by One Direction. I was really nervous about working with young students, but I am actually having more fun with them than they have with me.