Hey everyone, today I had the wonderful opportunity to observe Sienna’s primary school English session.

Sienna started the session checking her students homework from last week. They then did some work on preparing her student for her upcoming spelling test. They went through a range of sight words.

They then spent the rest of the tutorial, working on creative writing. Sienna started by going through the structure of a story, she explained how there needs to be an introduction, climax and resolution. They then started to create a detailed plan of the story. They started by going through the setting, then the plot and lastly the characters.

They also went through how to make the story more engaging and detailed, by adding more imagery and metaphors to the story. Sienna made sure to remind her student to show what was happening in the story rather than telling the story.

Sienna gave her student the mini whiteboard to write her spelling words on and to write her story. The student also started to draw the characters and the setting, so she could visualize the story she was writing about.

When Sienna’s student got distracted, Sienna did a good job, getting her student to focus and get back on track.

Sienna did a great job allowing her student to independently write the story. Once the student had finished writing a section of the story, Sienna would then read through it, to give some feedback. They also edited the grammar, punctuation and spelling.

It was great to see how friendly they were and how comfortable her primary school student was with her. They had a great relationship and they got along really well.

Overall, Sienna did a great job helping her student. It was a great session and such a pleasure to observe. Keep it up!

Ashley Cohen