yay today's tuition was fun! and more effective (hopefully) in getting him to learn to read. created little cards with words and he had many creative ideas of games we could play with the cards. haha he's so spontaneous. at first when we finished the work i brought for him, and i asked him to choose one of his story books to read, he was so downcast. cos on monday his mother "tested" him to see if he could read them by himself since she's heard me teaching him how to read them quite a number of times. oops, think he's always been dreaming away and just "blindly repeating" what i say... so he didn't know how to read except for words like "the" and stuff he already knew. when we finally finished ploughing through one of the books, (super tiring to read word by word slowly and trying to get him to actually look at the words instead of pictures!) i thought he was super exhausted and wouldn't be enthusiastic about reading more words on more cards. but i took them out anyway. to my surprise his face lit up and he got very excited describing his first game to me... haha so fun and it gets him to read the words too. though sometimes he gets a bit too carried away and forgets that he's supposed to read the words...
at the end i got him to "play" a "game"... reading all the cards with words he knew and counting how many cards he had in the end. he ended up with 21 and i had 37 in the pile he didn't know how to read... so i "won". i said i'll teach him some words every lesson so that his pile will get thicker and mine will become thinner. he still had many other ideas of games at the end of lesson and was very excited, asking how come i only come on mondays and wednesdays... think i finally caught his attention. think when i have more time i shall do another set of cards with the same words and then we can play the memory game. hopefully it makes words stick in his head more.