I tutored this afternoon as usual. Nothing too remarkable to report. The kids never did go to the Sciencecenter on Saturday. They said it was too late. But their aunt took them to a store to get them new bikes. The little girl was especially thrilled with her new bike. I said they should write about getting new bikes, since they couldn't write about the Sciencecener. The girl did this in her lesson with my help. She is still very tentative about writing.
We worked on the letter D in the alphabet book. The kids seemed more into it this time, though I wrote the words they found. Just finding and learning names of things is probably good practice without the writing, too.
The girl did some word searches while I worked with the boy, and they both did a fill-in-the-blanks sheet apiece. The words they had to choose were their vocab words from last time, which they hadn't studied, so of course they had trouble filling in the blanks. I practically told them the answers, and they finally got them all.
The boy reluctantly read something I had printed out about St. Patrick. He did very well. There were words he didn't know, of course. I had anticipated some of them and printed out definitions of those words. He read about 2 definitions. I want them to start comprehending dictionary definitions. It's time to start them using the dictionary.
When I got home, I made a huge quantity of word searches for the girl. She goes through them fast, and she had only a few left. So I used all the words on her rather extensive word list. Some of those words are from a while ago, and I think she knows them now, but there are more that she continues to have trouble with, and spelling out the ones she knows is good, too. In fact, and bad thing about the word searches is that they don't require that you know what the words mean.
We worked on the letter D in the alphabet book. The kids seemed more into it this time, though I wrote the words they found. Just finding and learning names of things is probably good practice without the writing, too.
The girl did some word searches while I worked with the boy, and they both did a fill-in-the-blanks sheet apiece. The words they had to choose were their vocab words from last time, which they hadn't studied, so of course they had trouble filling in the blanks. I practically told them the answers, and they finally got them all.
The boy reluctantly read something I had printed out about St. Patrick. He did very well. There were words he didn't know, of course. I had anticipated some of them and printed out definitions of those words. He read about 2 definitions. I want them to start comprehending dictionary definitions. It's time to start them using the dictionary.
When I got home, I made a huge quantity of word searches for the girl. She goes through them fast, and she had only a few left. So I used all the words on her rather extensive word list. Some of those words are from a while ago, and I think she knows them now, but there are more that she continues to have trouble with, and spelling out the ones she knows is good, too. In fact, and bad thing about the word searches is that they don't require that you know what the words mean.
That'd be better than having to buy new tarps. Which reminds me: I need to put those windsurfers on Craigslist this spring. I'm thinking that I won't be getting much use outta them anymore. 
I'll try it on a sample paper and see if the blue comes out darker. I'm also going to experiment with fixative. After spraying fixative on a sample I should be able to go over it again and get a darker blue.
