March 19, 2014
The hardest part about this session with PJ was transitioning from tutoring an adult struggling with a disability to tutoring a child struggling with the consequences of eating too much pizza. Because PJ was on Spring break he didn't have his usual weekly vocabulary list and reading for us to work on, so Ms. Kim gave me a Highlights magazine for us to read together. On the verge of a food coma, PJ was almost impossible to engage. I asked what he was doing over the break and he told me he was going to Science Camp, but when I probed for details he clammed up. After reading a few stories to him and getting little response, we did an I-Spy type game from a page in the magazine. Finally, seeing no progress would be made just then, I let PJ download and play a game on my phone. This at least perked him up a little, and it gave us something to talk about.
Hey, it was Spring Break! Good attempts though!
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