TP #5 Madison

Today I tutored Matthew, and the beginning of our session was quite awkward. He wanted to sit at a table near his brother, but his mom told him to go to the other side of the library. He ended up throwing a fit (he's only in third grade) until his mom let us switch tables. Luckily his mom was there so I didn't have to be the disciplinarian; however, I still felt quite awkward. I guess when you are working with kids they can be quite unpredictable and sometimes maybe it's best to let them win some of the smaller battles. After that, the rest of our session went fairly smoothly as everything went back to normal. He read, then wrote his summary, I edited it while he did his math homework, then I quizzed him on his spelling words, and he did his FCAT reading comprehension homework. To conclude our session I taught him a quick lesson on pronouns and irregular plural nouns. However, I didn't have any activities planned for him unfortunately. Afterwards, I helped explain why he got answers wrong on one of his old math assignments, I don't think he fully understood the directions the first time he did it.