I tutored the kids today. We changed days from Saturdays to Mondays to make way for the little girl's ballet lessons. She is so cute! I hope I can get to see her in her ballet costume sometime. Because she's starting ballet, I looked up a bunch of books about little girls doing ballet. Most seem a bit too advanced for her, and I'll have to see what the local library has, but some are possibilities.
Today, she read (with lots of help from me) Gray Rabbit's Odd One Out --
Gray Rabbit's Odd One Out: Alan Baker: 0046442452571: Amazon.com: Books -- which I thought would be fun because on each page, there's a picture of related things with one object (the odd one out) that doesn't belong. She found the odd one out before the story even asked after understanding the concept, which she caught onto right away. I think she enjoyed it because the struggle to read the words was mitigated by the fun of finding the odd object. Of course, I found a list of words that she didn't know that will be homework next time. Her homework this time was a list of words that she struggled with last time, and after the list, I had made a simple sentence for each word. In 2 sentences, I used her brother's name and then her name, and she was absolutely tickled by it! She thought her brother and she were in a book! I had to disillusion her -- I typed the words and sentences out on the computer and printed them out. One word from last time that she still has trouble saying and understanding the meaning of is soak. I explained how you can soak in the tub, how you soak dried beans so you can cook them, etc. She tries so hard! Of course, her brother was looking on and lorded it over her when he knew a word she didn't. I may get him to help her in a future lesson. It would be good for him to do more reading, and he might like feeling that he can read better than someone else. I want her to read Green Eggs and Ham --
Green Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself): Dr. Seuss: 0000394800163: Amazon.com: Books -- but it wasn't in the library last visit. I'm sure they must have it but someone just took it out. Maybe next time.
Then it was his turn. I read him a story that was probably too difficult for him to read but easy enough to understand:
Tiger: Judy Allen, Tudor Humphries: 9781564020833: Amazon.com: Books I wish it would let you see inside this book because the illustrations are breathtaking. That's one reason I chose the book, even if it was difficult. Another is that it takes place in China, and the characters are Chinese. I asked him about China, which he's been to but I haven't. He didn't see villages like that depicted in the book, he told me. One illustration showed rice paddies, and he didn't know about them, so I told him what little I know, how they flood the field so the rice can grow in water. Flood was a word he recently didn't know and we had discussed, so this was a chance for him to hear it in another context. While I read the story, I asked him to follow along, which, of course, I knew he wouldn't, so I made a game of it. I would read, and when I stopped at a word, he had to point to the word. I repeatedly lost him unless I stopped more often than I had started out doing. Also, he tends to daydream. A lot of times he asked me a question about the story that it had just answered. I reminded him that the story had just told him that and read the part again. Then he got it. It's not that he can't do better, it's just that he isn't really focused. He doesn't seem to care much when he misses following the story. I used to do this with my daughter, and she would hang on every word to not miss. I think she was a lot more competitive than he is. She hated to be wrong or not know. She had a kind of vengeance about winning games that was almost unhealthy. Then I gave him a sheet with contractions. He said, "I know about contractions already," but I noticed recently that he wasn't spelling don't correctly and he tends not to use the apostrophe even on ones he can spell. I made a list of every contraction I could think of, so it was quite long. We practiced him reading them, and I had to correct his pronunciation on some, so he doesn't know all about contractions, and learning them and using the apostrophe will be a good partial review. I had brought Where the Wild Things Are, too, but he said he already read that book in school, so we skipped it. That was what I had mainly planned to work on, so the lesson changed on the spur of the moment. He also had some reading he had to do for school, but he opted to read the books I had. To finish it off, he had a fill-in-the-blanks of contractions using the words in a list at the bottom of the page. He struggled with that, so yes, reviewing contractions is a good idea.
Now it's time to plan my lesson for Wednesday. I like to do that right away when I get home, because then everything we did is fresh in my mind, and I'm still in teacher mode. I guess I'll need to stop at the library to get more books, since the 3 I chose are now ready to go back.
After the tutoring, I went grocery shopping, then came home to make and eat dinner, and now it's time to prepare the lesson for Wednesday.
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she admits daisy has mostly been a biter and has let her roam all day as she works. god knows how many cat fight shes been in...so daisy most likely has had the leukaemia for awhile..and I wouldn't mind betting..daisy has..fiv as well.as I didn't have her tested for that..im not rolling in money..anyway...im just washing my hands of all of this..i mainly blame myself...for trusting people sorry folks for going on...I just need to down load..thanks for putting up with me.♥
