Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Summer Tutoring

So far I only have one student but three others are interested.  Now I just need to find times that work for the others.  I thought 1/2 hour would be enough for a seven year old students.  But one hour flies by.  I break each 15 minutes into interesting segments.

For example today we started working with sight words.  We do ten every session.  First the student writes them on three by five cards.  We read them together.  I use them in a sentence.  We review them.  Next we worked on phonics.  We are practicing short vowel sounds.  It is so hard to tell the different sounds with the contestants.   It was getting hard and then the time was up.  We switched to blocks with the short vowel sounds to make words.  We worked on rhyming words,  We wrote the words down.  Next we started to write a story about what the student wanted to do for the rest of the summer.  Tutoring was not on the list.  We will work on the story, add pictures, and then add words from our sight word lists.  I am enjoying the time.

I still need to have my web site finished.  I emailed Irene who is helping me to complete this project but so far no response.  I thought being housebound for a month I would have completed the web page but that did not happen.  So it is still a work in progress.