Today is my first day of tutoring. I've spent much more time planning this summer than I did last year. I've created a binder for him (a student I will have next year) and I plan on "testing" out some of my ideas-particularly using poetry as a fluency/comprehension tool. I've chosen a few poems and tongue twisters from Timothy Rasinski and Lorraine Griffith's book Texts for Fluency Practice.
We are going to start today with a getting acquainted activity. Again, it is a gem I found yesterday on Victoria Jasztal's website. It is called "This is...Me." I've brought in a picture of myself from 5th grade, and written a paragraph about how I have changed since then. My student, will collect a picture of himself from 2nd or 3rd grade and we will talk about the changes he has experienced since then, and follow up by writing about them. Here is a link to her original pdf document explaining it in more detail.
I also plan on using "Foam Numbers", a program by Lou Ann Daniels, to improve said student's math facts automaticity.
Later today, mom, dad, and I are traveling up to Germantown, Wisconsin to visit my sister Abby. :-)
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