Well we are almost to the end. Today we kind of did a mini review of everything and I explained what we would be doing in the last tutoring session. We went over a site that Reggie enjoyed at the beginning which was freerice.com. He loves that site because he is constantly trying to see how many he can get right before he messes up. I love watching him do educational things and enjoying it. There were even two words that had been a part of our vocabulary that had happened to pop up and he got them right! I was so excited!
I listened to his preferences and went back to an online article from Sports Illustrated for Kids. It was over John Wall and had a different format to it. I was anxious to see how he would comprehend a report like article that also included Q & A's. After we completed reading the article we went back over a few things and he then answered some Bloom's questions. He did a phenomenal job comprehending the passage and didn't seem to have any issue with the Q & A comprehension part. He likes to see what him and some of the pro basketball players may have in common because sometimes those guys don't seem human.
Reggie has been a solid sport throughout the entire time and I am sad to think I only have one more time with him. I really hope he continues to read this summer and grow because he has done such a good job with the word play games, writing, and reading activities. I can see how he has grown and this is a good feeling but you almost want to just spend the entire summer doing this. Today Reggie completed everything in his story and published it for the world to see. It was a great sight to see him get so concerned with how it looked before he published because he was aware that parent's and some of my friends would be able to see his finished product.
Today I learned that no matter how much we have on our plate or how stressed we are, we have to step back and take a deep breath to look at the product we have created or helped create. I think this is what Reggie went through with his storybird as well as I in this class because it was overwhelming but so rewarding once you step away from the work. Tomorrow I will make sure I have his assessments ready to go and the heart to say see ya later:)
You are so right about the stress and speed we force students to experience. You are also so right that there should be time set aside to stop and enjoy what has happened, laugh a little, and make learning fun.
ReplyDeleteMy principal used to say that if your brain doesn't hurt at the end of the day, then you haven't learned anything. The brain hurts because the synopsis between the neurons have changed or become fuzzier. It is the chemical change that makes the headache. If there is no headache than the brain has not learned anything new. This story fascinated my students and at the end of the day, they would comment about their fuzzy brain cells and how they had changed during the day. This man was so motivating to both the faculty and the students.