East Cobb Branch Held Youth Tutoring Program XVII

On February 2nd 2019, five members from the East Cobb Branch of AYLUS separately tutored at the Switzer library and the East Cobb Library to help kids who needed assistance with school work ranging from Math to Language Arts and to Science.

Before arriving at Switzer Library, the members did not think that many kids would show up since there weren’t many kids there the week before.  When the sat down in Study Room #5, a family of 4 came in, a mother with her three kids.  The students were in fifth grade, second grade, and fourth grade. The 5th grader needed help with earth science homework and fractions.  Kevin helped her with this.  The second grader needed help with telling time. Diane helped her with this.  The fourth grader also needed help with math but we did not have another tutor to help him so Kevin and Diane stepped in to help him when he had questions.

 After they left at 3:30, three other students came in. This time we were joined with another tutor to help us.  Cynthia came at 3:30 willing to help.  These three students were in kindergarten and in 5th grade.  They were a bit shy at first and did not talk much but later they became more talkative as they knew us.  The fifth graders were twins, they needed help with their fractions.  The kindergartener needed help making sentences.  Kevin help the kindergartener, Diane and Cynthia helped the two 5th graders.  The tutoring ended at 4:30 and the students will be back next week for more tutoring.

At the East Cobb Library, We had five students come in for tutoring. Our two tutors were Eileen Zhang and David Qu. A variety of subjects were covered in the tutoring sessions, like math, reading comprehension, writing, and biology. 

One of the students who came in asked for help with reading comprehension. Together, the student and the tutor read through the assigned passages. The first worksheet was on a passage from Homer’s The Odyssey. After a first read of the passage, the tutor helped the student answer the questions. The second worksheet was on snowflakes. The worksheet was composed of a short poem and a non-fiction passage. The activity was intended to be completed together with a parent or guardian, so after reading the two passages, the tutor and the student discussed the questions before writing down.

Tutoring sessions are held every Saturday from 2:30 to 4:30 at East Cobb Library and Switzer Library. All students from elementary school to middle school are welcome to come in for a one-on-one tutoring session with our tutor.  

Attendance:  Kevin Shen (2 hrs),  Diane Chen(2hrs),  Cynthia Ruan (1 hrs), Eileen Zhang (2 hrs) and David Qu (2 hrs)  

Reported by: Kevin Shen and Eileen Zhang