Today, I missed a bit of Riverview mentoring in order to finish up my Latin Internal Assessment. This ended up working out, as the boy I'll be tutoring, Sam, hadn't returned from vacation, yet because Passover is this week. So when I got there, I helped Mrs. McDowell try and upload some SAT/PSAT software, so that the boys could practice when Liz and I weren't there. It wasn't seeimg to work on Phil's computer, so I loaded it onto Mrs. McDowell's computer. We went through the guided tour, so that Phil could see all the tools that could help him practice his vocab, sentence structure, and math skills.
Liz had to leave a bit early, and we still had a few minutes left. I worked with Phil for a few minutes, going over vocab words, and the prefix "sub," meaning to go under or to follow. We went over a few words, such as "submarine," "submit," and "subject," using them in a sentence, and going over their most literal meanings. We didn't have a lot of time to spend on them (only about 10 minutes), but I quickly learned that having the definitions ready, was the most helpful. If I could find synonyms to the words we were reviewing, that also helped him remember the meanigns, so that he could figure out the rest of the words, even if he didn't fully understand the definition. I am not sure if Sam will like/use the same methods, but I will try to use them next week and see what he thinks.
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