I got to Riverview on time today, skipping softball practice completely, after letting Coach know at yesterday's game. When I got to Riverview, Mrs. McDowell let me know that the boys were actually able to install the SAT/PSAT practice software onto their computers, so that was good to know. Hopefully they will use it during the week when Liz and I aren't there, so that we can review, to help the information stick in their minds.
Sam and I worked mostly on math today, as he and his mom reviewed some vocab over his vacation. The math we went over, I thought was pretty basic, but I saw how difficult it was for Sam to comprehend a bunch of concepts. It was really eye-opening for me to see how differently Sam thought about math. He explained to me that he didn't know the terms I was using, so I found out that explaining the terms, and repeating those over at various points in the review/lesson was the most helpful for him. I also found that breaking down complex concepts into simpler concepts was helpful to Sam; he was able to piece together a concept like squaring and square roots, by thinking about the multiplication times table and the doubling of numbers.
We were working through a math packet, so Mrs. McDowell assigned Sam to do one lesson over the week. It's about 15 problems, and Sam seemed less than excited, but I don't blame him, because of course it's not fun to do work that you struggle with. I only hope that he does it so that I can help him review and go over concepts he didn't understand, next week.
Although we focused on math for most of the time, Sam and I did work on vocab a bit, which is another part he doesn't really like. I found out that the methods I had used with Phil didn't really help Sam; he told me that it was easier for him to look at the list of words on the worksheet Mrs. McDowell gave him, and pick out the words he already knew and heard most often. Then we talked about what those words meant and what factor they had in common. We discovered that "demolish," "destroy," and "department" all have a common factor of the pieces. Therefore we concluded that the prefix "de-" means to go away from, or break down. Sam is going to review his list od "de-" words and also "re-" words like "review," because those will be the easiest for him.
We'll review what we went over this week, what he does over the week, and hopefully look at some new concepts next week.
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