Third Day at PYC March 14th 10:15-12:15
Today Krystina and I began working with the girls. We got books from Kathleen which would help the girls prepare for standardized testing. Antonisha couldn’t work with us because she had a project she had to do during class. Tanyka worked on the workbook with our help. She had a really hard time with most of it and hadn’t learned a lot of the material. Tanyka got frustrated quickly and was having a hard time staying focused. We tutor in the cafeteria/common area, so many students are walking through there all day. This didn’t help in keeping her focused on her work, either. Another contributing factor for her restlessness is the fact that we volunteer on Fridays when NO ONE wants to be in school. After a little over an hour we realized that there was no way she was going to be able to focus on math any longer. Tanyka was taking her permit test the next week, so we worked out of her materials from her driver’s education class to help her prepare for the test.
After working with Tanyka, we talked to Kathleen and went over the workbook. It seemed that Tanyka was having the most problems with fraction problems. Kathleen said she would find some fraction packets to work from for the next time we worked with the girls.