Our intrepid tutor, Geoff H., pushed into new territory Monday. Working with a PreK age child, he taught how to tie a shoe. All the young ones wander around with shoes untied and I just figured that was the style. Bad assumption on my part. Geoff had this girl tying perfect knots in mere minutes.....Job well done!
pete
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News, happenings, and information for our volunteers in the PREP program. Contact us at nhky.tutoring@yahoo.com
Preppy Readingfrog
Welcome to PREPBLOG!
I'm Preppy Readingfrog, host and mascot of the Portland Reading Excellence Program. PREP began in the fall of 2006 as an effort to improve the educational aspirations and achievements of our younger Neighborhood House members.
We presently have 40 pre-K through 6th grade children involved in PREP. Volunteer tutors can visit our center Monday through Thursday and work one on one with the children in the afternoon and early evening. We read to children who are not yet literate and read with children who are already reading. Tutors also work simple math exercises and review elementary math concepts like counting, addition, and subtraction with the children.
The blog posts to your left are in reverse chronological order. If you want to learn more about PREP and how you can help, scroll to the lowest post (some may be in archives) and read them from oldest to newest(-:
If you want more information on Neighborhood House, visit their website at http://www.nhky.org/. If you want more information about becoming a tutor, call Neighborhood House, visit us on for a first Monday orientation, or email Preppy at nhky.tutoring@yahoo.com.
See you soon at Neighborhood House!
We presently have 40 pre-K through 6th grade children involved in PREP. Volunteer tutors can visit our center Monday through Thursday and work one on one with the children in the afternoon and early evening. We read to children who are not yet literate and read with children who are already reading. Tutors also work simple math exercises and review elementary math concepts like counting, addition, and subtraction with the children.
The blog posts to your left are in reverse chronological order. If you want to learn more about PREP and how you can help, scroll to the lowest post (some may be in archives) and read them from oldest to newest(-:
If you want more information on Neighborhood House, visit their website at http://www.nhky.org/. If you want more information about becoming a tutor, call Neighborhood House, visit us on for a first Monday orientation, or email Preppy at nhky.tutoring@yahoo.com.
See you soon at Neighborhood House!
Volunteer Calendar: tutoring opportunities
MONDAYS:
1st - gh, jp, pc, mjp
2nd - gh, jp, mjp
3rd - gh, jp, mjp
4th - gh, jp, mjp
TUESDAYS:
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
WEDNESDAYS:
1st - ama, anh,
2nd - ama, anh
3rd - ama, anh, pc
4th - ama, anh
THURSDAYS:
1st - jw, na
2nd - jw, na
3rd - jw, na
4th - jw, na, pc
1st - gh, jp, pc, mjp
2nd - gh, jp, mjp
3rd - gh, jp, mjp
4th - gh, jp, mjp
TUESDAYS:
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
WEDNESDAYS:
1st - ama, anh,
2nd - ama, anh
3rd - ama, anh, pc
4th - ama, anh
THURSDAYS:
1st - jw, na
2nd - jw, na
3rd - jw, na
4th - jw, na, pc
Thank you for your help!
If you need to add or remove yourself from a day, email me at nhky.tutoring@yahoo.com
Videos - Training and Information for Tutors!
To Do's for PREP
- hit up cell pphone providers for old phones
- scan math folder materials and post
- prize quest - phones, computers, tickets, book cards
- update monthly monday post
- post about volunteers
- post about hand writing and note taking
- post about lined scrap paper
- get harry potter books for nh
- post about library connections
- post about little kids books
- make more reading and math folders
- post about new communication book
- add pictures of folder contents
- add pictures of reading and math materials
- change abacus post to how to use abacus
links to neighborhood house website and blogs:
PREP Wish List: Items we need
- Books of latin/greek roots to build vocabulary
- Books of short stories appealing to children
- Childrens books
- Dictionaries
- Old grade school math textbooks
- Thesauruses
Documents - Instructions and Sample Documents for Tutors:
- Tutor introduction - Reading
- Tutor introduction - Math
- Reading folder - reading primary assessment sheet
- Reading folder - tutor session notes
- Reading folder - reading progress tracking sheet - lessons completed
- Assessing a new child: step by step instructions
- Assessing a new child: hints on how to assign a starting level
- Example of PREP bulletin board "Tutor Me Today" list
- Example of clipboard "weekly list of daily tutoring sessions"
- Tutor recruiting poster - fall 2007 #2
- Tutor recruiting poster - fall 2007 #1
preppy's profile
- PREPPY
- Louisville, KY, United States
- I'm the mascot of the Portland Reading Excellence Program
Preppy's Bookshelf: My favorite books
- Parisian Home Cooking, Pride and Prejuidice, King Lear, The Grapes of Wrath
- John Adams, Anthem, The fountainhead, Collapse
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- 1491, A team of Rivals, Alexander Hamilton, All the Pretty Horses, All the King's Men
- A Christmas Carol, Tale of Two Cities, Vegetarian Planet, The Straw Bale House, The Baker's Apprentice, The little Prince, The Lord of the Rings
- The Zuni Cafe Cookbook, The Old Man and the Boy, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Great Gatsby, April 1865
Preppy's Cyberbookshelf
- reading spelling and math
- more greek and latin roots
- greek and latin roots MSU
- Literacy links online!
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macmillan_Co._v._King
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_%28law%29
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
- http://www.masters.edu/DeptPageNew.asp?PageID=1744&minimal=true
- http://home.earthlink.net/~cnew/research.htm
- http://copyright.iupui.edu/checklist.htm
- http://library.case.edu/copyright/fairuse.html
- http://homepage.mac.com/lawrencedavid/cuteanimals/panda_relaxes_exhausted.jpg
- http://china.mrdonn.org/panda.jpg
Mathtoo Numberbear's favorite websites:
- math for america
- math studies research inst
- math doesn't suck
- reading spelling and math
- more math wars
- math wars home age
- google search - best math textbooks
- russian math text
- Argument against the "New Math" theory of learning and teaching.
- "New Math" videos by the annenberg foundation
- "New Math" homepage
- The math circle - an after school math club
- math basics
- Wiki math portal
- Number problem resource page online.
- More math activities
- Daily math activities for parents:
- math term dictionary
Recruting Poster Spots(date)
- St. Matthews Library(1/08)