Tutoring Tuesdays - June 27th, 2017

I'm back with tutoring Tuesdays! I had a great session of tutoring last Thursday just like I always do. She is so much fun! Her parents are absolutely wonderful and supportive too!

This week we continued working on 2 digit subtraction by 2 digit subtraction. I let her pick out of two different sets of task cards and she picked 2 Digit Subtraction Dinosaurs Task Cards. This set comes with a board game that I used to make it more fun. If children land on the dinosaur they get chased back to start! The cards again can be written on if laminated or put in plastic sleeves with a dry erase marker, which is what I did with her. She did a fantastic job only missing a couple. One of those had the tricky 0 in the ones place. When she had another problem with that pesky zero she got it correct! She is an incoming 2nd grader! So very smart!

Then I went over a few problems with multiplication with 0's and 1's as factors. It took a few cards and then she completely understood how to multiply 0's and 1's. She started making up her own multiplication equations with 0's and 1's as factors and giving her mom and I the product! So very smart. We played a quick game with my Butterfly Multiplication Race using just the equations with 0's and 1's. The game has facts to 10! I had her give me the answer rather than write on it. Should children land on a snake they get chased back to start, but if they land on a butterfly they fly away from the snake and get to go again! So much fun!!!

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Tutoring Tuesdays - May 2nd, 2017

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to my blog readers! I didn't tutor last week because the girl I tutor had a doctor appointment. So I will share some more fun things that I have used for tutoring in the past.

When I tutored her last year she was working on skip counting by 2's and 5's. A couple of the activities I worked on with her were skip counting by 2's with caps from water bottles and craft sticks. You simple put a number on each one and mix them up and the student puts them in order. We worked on numbers 2 to 20. Then 22 to 40 and so forth until she mastered counting all the way to 100. It seemed to work better by breaking it up into small parts.

I bought the foam butterfly at Dollar Tree. They come in a pack of a bunch with different colors. It was another easy skip counting activity where she had to lace the yarn which works on fine motor skills as well. She did have excellent fine motor skills and still does. I did paper plates as well that you can see in my blog post from last year by clicking HERE.

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