Tutoring report.
I started with the girl today. She was very slow and easily distracted doing her fill-in-the-blanks. And they both did the Don't / Doesn't sheet pretty well and without looking at what I call the cheat sheet. That's where I conjugated it in the present tense. The boy got them all right, and the girl got one wrong. They are sick of Don't / Doesn't, and so am I. I told them when they got them all right without the cheat sheet, we wouldn't do them anymore. So the girl has one for next week, and the boy doesn't. She was speechless, sputtering that she is always the best. Well, this time her brother beat her at it. I think it made him feel good, and it taught her that she's not always the star pupil. Then they did a word search, and the boy won that, too. It was close; the girl only had to find one last word when he finished.
The girl chose a reading comprehension sheet, and I had her do another short one, too.
We discussed going to Watkins Glen, so I had the boy read about it. He didn't want to, but he did, since his mom and I both said the trip is dependent on how hard they work at their lessons.
The boy had done his fill-in-the-blanks sheet while the girl was working on hers, so then I was done.
The boy made an interesting suggestion. He wants only 5 words on the fill-in-the-blanks sheet instead of the 10 I use per sheet. I said I'd do that if he does 2 sheets. There will be fewer choices, so it might be easier. So this evening, I made up fill-in-the-blanks sheets with 5 sentences each. I still want them to do those I've already made up with 10 words, though. I don't want to have to redo them all.
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