Yesterday I had another session with my child tutee, Matt.
He and his brother came to CIES today for our session. Marco tutors his brother, so keeping them away from each other is crucial. Otherwise they will constantly be distracting each other. Even though we chose different areas in the same room, this still kind of happened.
Regardless, we began by finishing the essay that we started re-writing last time. Matt was to write an opinion essay about why something was better than something else. He chose to write about why the video game Call of Duty is better than another game called Halo. We had got an introduction paragraph and a body paragraph completed last time. We started with the next two body paragraphs. It's amazing how creative he is, but it seems like he needs a constant monitor throughout the process. Otherwise, he looses focus and energy and he will not complete his work or he will not do it to the best of his ability. Matt also does really well with positive reinforcement, so I give him a lot of praise throughout our sessions. We had enough time to write the conclusion today also. I asked him to add one personal sentence at the end. Something about how the game makes him feel. I was really happy with his essay by the time we had finished it! We compared it with his first draft and I know he could see the difference and seemed quite proud of his work.
Because he had worked so hard, I decided to reward him with a fun activity. He loves to play hangman, so we did this with some of his vocabulary words. I will give him a synonym to his word as a hint and he has to guess the word before his stick figure man gets "hung." He was pretty distracted by his brother most of the time, but he did manage to guess a few before he ran out of guesses. Before I knew it we were already at the end of our session. I think Matt and I will both be proud of his work over these past 7 weeks, even if he doesn't immediately realize how well he has been doing.
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