Missing My Buddy :(

ok so I went to tutor Norbit today... and... he wasn't there... i'm suspecting too much candy lol...
so instead I spent my hour and a half observing and giving aid to Diane and her reading buddy Cinderella (obviously, a name change).
This of course was after observing the class, it took me seconds to realize my buddy wasn't there... and one of the other boys was trying to whisper it to me subtley when Mrs. Taylor wasn't looking. I happened to come in during the crowning of the "Word Wizard", so I took a look at the board of words that kids have used in sentances... Norbit is the only child who does not have any words at all.... that concerns me... the words are not difficult... but based on what I've seen he's probably just not paying attention. After one of the other girls had been given the wizard hat to wear for the day, the class went over the list of "rules" they had come up with with Mrs. George the reading coach... basically stating they they don't talk over each other, they don't copy each other, and they're polite when adding thier own information. Surprisingly this went very well with them until they were told to turn to the kids sitting next to them and make a prediction about what was going to happen in the book. They were only given a few minutes, but only a small fraction of that time was actually spent talking about the topic, other things popped up here there and everywhere in their conversations. They also get very confused about he concept of "shaving off thier hair"... which was one of thier stories revolved around... instead they kept saying that the main character "shaved off her head". That was interesting...
When observing Cinderella and Diane, I noticed many differences and similarities between teaching styles and learning styles, as compared to Norbit and myself. Diane tries to help Cinderella remember things by using memorable phrases, like when I told Norbit there were no "kows" in his "costume" which he remembered lol... Cinderella, unlike Norbit, was easily distracted by the kids being sent out of various classes for misbehaviour... especially once one of them started shouting "I'm the chosen one!"... hmm... too much Star Wars perhaps?
They are alike in the fact that instead of spreading out their written ideas and words onto seperate lines, they try to fit everything on the line they start with, even if they have to squash it all together. It was also hard for me to observe, especially because Cinderella wanted me to interact with them, Diane didn't mind, we get along really well, and we all communicate when we're all in the hallway tutoring. The kids all see us come in while they are doing circle time and they say hi to every tutor that they get along with... even if they're not thier own...
Kids are nicer about copying each others phrases and thoughts then they were when I was in school. If you stole another kids idea, after they had already stated it you would have gotten "that was my idea stupid!"... these kids just agree with each other... even when Nemo (another chosen name) copied Cinderella to say that his birthday is tommorow... but he couldn't tell us what tommorow was, and when asked if his birthday was in November he answered no. Cinderella could, so yes it probably is her birthday. I did enjoy watching Diane and Cinderella working together today, it gave me that chance to compare how the kids work... I really do hope that my buddy feels better on Wednesday....