Award-Winning Test Prep & Academic Tutoring in Fairchild Air Force Base, WA

"We practiced the student's spelling words, did some phonics and reading comprehension. His mother is concerned that he doesn't read as well as those in his class. I used modeling as my main strategy. He had a very good attitude. At the end of the session he got all but one correct on a spelling test."

"Today, we reviewed initial consonant r and l blends and short vowel sounds. We also introduced three letter beginning blends. Finally, we worked on reading comprehension with vocabulary and rereading for better understanding. "

"I worked with Student A first. We worked on transformations of graphs for the first part. Something her teacher had said was confusing, but we straightened it out and she understands it now. We then moved on to her homework which dealt with direct and inverse relationships and their graphs. Overall, I think she was overcomplicating things, but when we broke it down and worked through it step by step, she got it quickly. I worked with Student B on similar triangles--proving them similar and solving for corresponding parts of similar triangles. She was having some trouble understanding how to see and set up the proportions to solve, so I gave lots of examples of analogies and drew out a chart showing how each part of the proportion has to have a consistent horizontal and vertical relationship. She understood this once I drew it out and was able to set up a couple of correct proportions and solve for the missing pieces. "

"We covered logarithms and exponents. The student needed help with the basic properties of logarithms, so I wrote them all down for her. She understands exponents much better than she understands logarithms, mostly because she's done more practice with them. We covered topics like change of basis of logarithms, sums and differences, as well as how to move exponents into and out of logarithms. Overall, she was really understanding how the problems worked and how to solve them, and with some more practice she should be okay on this subject. "

"Today the student worked through the round math league sprint test. Some of the problems he needed the most help with this session involved permutations, combinations, and number bases. He also needed a bit of help with a challenging probability problem involving three standard dice. The topic we spent the most time on this session was number bases. I showed him how to convert a number in one base system into a number in another. Nice work!"

"The student and I worked on polynomial factoring. We began the session by going over monomials, finding degree values of terms based on exponents, and determining the leading coefficient. After she mastered this, I went through simplifying polynomial equations by combining like terms. Finally we learned the FOIL method and how to apply it correctly when multiplying polynomials. I ended the session by leaving her with homework on all the concepts we went over. She seems to really understand it, but needs to work on slowing down and being more careful with distributing negatives when combining like terms. "

"I helped the student write an email that was going out to the rest of the support staff regarding a going-away party for her boss. It's a slightly touchy subject because money is involved, and people are going to have to contribute financially. She did great and wrote the vast majority of it herself. She is really focused on improving and remembers a lot of the tips that I have told her. We then went over some basic grammar rules and talked about when to use commas. "

"The students both managed to finish the final drafts of their compare/contrast essays. Student 1's second draft showed improvement with elaborating details, but he will need to continue to practice this. Student 2 is doing better with overall structure, but needs to practice mechanics, namely punctuation and capitalization. Both boys ended up with well-flowing essays. "