Today I tutored my first grader again. We meet every Monday and every Monday I am seeing some progress. Of course a great deal of that is due to his 'everyday teacher' who, I'm happy to say, he really likes. Today felt like a real breakthrough to me. I have been using a numbers chart with him every week to help him count and do simple math problems and he had never gotten beyond the teens. But today it was like he saw the pattern. The chart, as you would expect, is arranged ten numbers across and ten rows, so 13 is below 3, 23 below 13, and so on, and today he saw it. He started counting, and kept right on reading those numbers all the way to 100. This may not sound like much to you, but for him it was a huge step forward. Don't you love it when you see that light turn on?
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