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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