Monday, October 24, 2022

I'm in love...

 This year the student I'm tutoring as part of FWCS Study Connections is a first grader.  I've always had third to fifth graders before.  I met him for the first time this afternoon.  He's so cute and so tiny.  Today he walked into the library (I mean resource center) where we meet, carrying a back pack almost as big as he is, and gave me a big smile revealing two missing front teeth.  I knew I was a goner.  This charmer could wrap me around his little finger.   As we worked through several introductory projects today I learned that he can't count past 17, has some sense of the sounds of letters but is a long way from being a reader and that he does like to draw.  As a former art teacher, that last bit cheered me.  I will try in every way I can to help him this year, and, if I'm lucky, for years to come.  Did somebody say challenge?

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