Moody Little Boys...

Ok so Norbit was very moody today, I don't know if it was because of the whole "OMFG ITS HALLOWEEN!! CANDY CANDY CANDY!!!" or if he was just in a mood... not exactly a bad one... but definately a different mood. Maybe he's finally warming up to me...

We started off reading a book that I got at my local library (he didn't like any of the other four...) but I think he was bored with it... it was called Tyson the Terrible, about this big ol' dinosaur who is big and ugly and scary... it was a suggestion by the librarian, but wiht me reading it I believe he was bored. I think I'm going to try and find some of my little brother's old Magic Treehouse books in the attic and seeing if he'll like those instead, they're small chapter books, with pictures in them and they go on adventures, so maybe he'll enjoy those.

After we were done with this, we started on the Sight words Dice activity. Basically I made a paper cube and used masking tape to put 6 of his missed Dolch words on it... Then he had to roll the cube and (wow that sounds wrong... you can't really roll a cube...) write on the graph chart what world came up how many times, until one word hit six. After that I had him write the words on the back however many times they were rolled, this was a bit of an adaptation because I was stupid and didn't remember that he was supposed to write the words out when it came up, so I changed the rules a bit.

We then started on the word packet, which Norbit usually loves, but instead today he worked on one section and told me he was bored... I was surprised, another reason why I could feel he was in a mood. So instead I had him write out sentances using the words from the Dolch test that were in the Dice game. He hates writing, so I'm trying to make him a little more comfortable with it so that he will actually do his assignments. He only wanted to play Candy Land, but there was no way he was getting around doing work. He did what I asked, and then we had 15 minutes left so we played Candy Land, First Grade level because he is still having trouble with some of the words like "walk" and "every".

I am seriously debating on staying after my 25 hours are up to continue working with Norbit, he is a very well behaved kid, and he is learning the words we work on quickly. I also spoke with Diane, another tutor, and she is thinking the same thing. These kids are great to work with, and we look forward to going in to work with them...

Like one of our articles said, it's not the words, its what we do with them... or something like that to another effect... I am changing them to fit the fact that Norbit and I are working with words.