Meet Norbit

Ok, so it was rather funny that I walked into the classroom today, and immediately five kids raised their hands and said to Ms. Taylor "Raspucia's tutor is here, but she's in Florida, does she know that???" it was rather amusing... so we sat and watched as they worked with Ms. George, the reading coach... some of the kids lost interest very quickly... others jumped at every opportunity to answer a question. Some would just copy the answers others gave, so activities were retired very quickly today. They have started a new project, called "Word Wizards", where they have a book they read a few times a week, and they have to learn to use some of the bigger words in sentances, both in school and at home... the Wizard of the day has to explain the meaning of three words (those for the day being nearly, empty, and..... found)... and then has to use them in a sentance... hes allowed to wear a wizard hat but if someone asks him why (like in the hallway) he has to do the same thing... then the tutors were given Charlie Dollars because we willingly sang the "Little Teapot" song... it was mentioned in one of the books the kids were reading... (well i should say offered Charlie Dollars cuz we were never actually given them... Ms. George forgot...)
After the kids were done with their activity with the reading coach (which ran 15 minutes over into our tutoring time...) Ms. Taylor dismissed the reading buddies to meet their tutors. Norbit who had never met me before was called up on his own... which he immediately responded to with a look on his face equivalent to "Oh Crap, what have I done now??!!" I tried to smile encouragingly at him, but he just smiled back... sort of like... "why is this crazy lady smiling at me?" After Ms. Taylor was finished up with Ms. George, she introduced Norbit to me.
We began working on his words which are on a considerably higher level than Raspucia's had been, but he actually grew bored with the ones we worked on, and he admitted it to me which was good cuz I was afraid he wasn't going to talk to me. Looking past the fact that our time was shortened because of the reading coach, we got a lot accomplished. I had him start on the First Grade reading level Candy Land, and he only struggled with a few words... its just very hard to start him working on something when I don't know what he has been doing with Ms. Taylor already, I don't think she had a set strategy, because he said that he never did any of the activities like the rainbow words or the word packets. I don't quite know what I'm going to start him with next week, I'm unsure whether or not I should try bumping him up a few levels or not... it's going to be difficult.