Reported by Karen Yang
Student members of the Greater Princeton Branch of AYLUS (GPA), Kevin Song and Karen Yang, teamed up and taught 5 kids from West Windsor in the subjects of math and public speaking.
The 3-hour class starts with an hour of prep for gathering materials around noon. Then at 3:30-5:30 Karen and Kevin teach Pre-Algebra class followed by public speaking. The 5 kids, Kathy, Victor, Claire, Claire, Meisu, are in 5th grade, and being taught Pre-Algebra and public speaking techniques, including debate, Model UN and presentation.
Homework will be assigned, and multiple exams given out during the class periods. The teachers are glad to teach the kids and in math and public speaking and glad to learn how to teach.
They meet on Sundays once a week since May 5, 2019, with certain holiday breaks in between. The program will conclude by June 2020. Below summarizes the date, time, location, and material being taught each time of tutoring.
| Date | Location | Material being taught |
| May 5, 2019 (3 hours)
(3:30-5:30, prep was 11:30-12:30) |
Chapin School of Princeton, 4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ 08540 | Negation and Subtraction. Kids also checked homework and took a test on the previous material, Arithmetic. |
| May 12, 2019 (3 hours)
(3:30-5:30, prep was 11:30-12:30) |
West Windsor Mercer County Library, 333 N. Post Road
Princeton Junction, NJ 08550 |
Subtraction.
Kids checked homework, played a game, and took a quiz on last week’s material. |
| May 19, 2019 (3 hours)
(3:30-5:30, prep was 11:30-12:30)
|
Chapin School of Princeton, 4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ 08540 | PEMDAS and Order of Operations. Kids took a quiz, checked homework. |
| June 2, 2019 (3 hours)
(3:30-5:30, prep was 11:30-12:30)
|
Chapin School of Princeton,
4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ 08540 |
Properties of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. Kids took a review quiz and checked homework. |
| June 9, 2019 (3 hours)
(3:30-5:30, prep was 11:30-12:30)
|
Chapin School of Princeton 4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ 08540 | Review for the “final” test of the year. Tutors answered questions that the kids had. |
| June 16, 2019 (3 hours)
(3:30-5:30, prep was 11:30-12:30)
|
Chapin School of Princeton
4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ 08540 |
Test on the subjects learned so far. Kids also had time to prepare. The kids will take a summer break and then will come back later on! |
| September 8, 2019 (3 hours)
(3:30-5:30, prep was 11:30-12:30)
|
Chapin School of Princeton,
4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ 08540 |
Start of a new school year! Reviewed last year’s lessons and material, making sure kids understand what learned. |
| September 15, 2019 (3 hours)
(3:30-5:30, prep was 11:30-12:30)
|
Chapin School of Princeton, 4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ 08540 | Chapter two, exponents. We started the chapter with squares. Gave them homework and overview of the school year. Public speaking, we introduced them to the public speaking and gave them an intro with speaking. |
| September 22, 2019 (3 hours)
(3:30-5:30, prep was 11:30-12:30)
|
Chapin School of Princeton,
4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ 08540 |
Kids played a Kahoot and quizzes, another online game. They then learned about higher exponents with notes.
Kids learned about a public speaking technique of eye contact and practiced. |
| September 29, 2019 (3 hours)
(3:30-5:30, prep was 11:30-12:30)
|
Chapin School of Princeton,
4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ 08540 |
Kids played a Kahoot about last week’s topic. They learned about zero as an exponent and negative exponents. Kids got homework. Public Speaking, we worked on body language and standing straight. |
| October 6, 2019 (3 hours)
(3:30-5:30, prep was 11:30-12:30)
|
Chapin School of Princeton
4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ 08540 |
Kids played a Kahoot on negative exponents. Checked a talked over homework. We further review negative exponents, since it was a harder topic! Assigned homework. |
|
November 3, 2019 (3 hours) (3:30-5:30, prep was 11:30-12:30) |
Chapin School of Princeton, 4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ 08540 |
Kids did a review on negative exponents and played two Kahoots, one as a warmup and one as a review. Kids were assigned homework to review for the next test. |
Check their website for more tutoring pictures (https://sites.google.com/view/pjsg/home)!
