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

She did a great job going through her students spelling. They started doing spelling words to prepare her for her weekly spelling test. Sienna started by reading out each spelling word and then she would put the word into a sentence and he her student to sound out each word phonetically. She would also get her student to write the word and then put the word into her own sentence. If her student got the word wrong, Sienna would explain what error she made and would then go through the correct spelling rule her student needs to follow. For example, they went through I before E.

When her student got stuck, Sienna would give her student some hints to help her. For some oxymorons the would go through both spellings of the word and which spelling word appropriately applied to the sentence.

To help her student engage more in the spelling activity, she allowed her student to write each word onto a mini whiteboard.

They looked at the difficulties of different types of sight words and depending on how her student was progressing would influence the difficulty of spelling words Sienna would give her student. This helped Sienna to pick the difficulty of spelling words she gave her student for homework. Her student will use the look, cover, write and then check method to write her spelling words. If her student makes an error she can then attempt to spell the word again.

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