Ethan already had a great grasp of how to add cents and dollars together which should make things easier for him when they go more in depth on it during school now, and when it came to his spelling, it is great to see how enthusiastic he gets when he gets a word right or when he manages to correct an incorrectly spelled word.

He did unfortunately stumble on a couple of the money questions I gave him where he seemed to have forgot a step, which is a shame as otherwise he did the question perfectly. He did mention to me a couple sessions ago about not being confident in answering maths questions in a test without my aid, and perhaps this sort of little mistake is linked to that worry.

I appreciated how honest Berry was about her maths abilities and it made it very easy for me to see where improvements can be made and what she does not enoy about it. I also appreciate her not being put off by doing maths for 40 minutes considering her reaction to that last week when I mentioned it to her.

She does count some numbers up a bit slowly, namely 7 and 8s, but at least she can do it quite quickly with her fingers but this will need to be done in her head soon enough for the sake of speed and familiarity with those numbers.

Cleo is definitely getting better at spelling despite tending to trip up at them initially, once she understands the pattern between the words I am giving there is not much of an issue for her to spell them generally. Her ability to focus was also great considering we went on for 40 minutes and I have struggled to keep her on track for 30 minutes before.

These words and likely others will need to revised as while she did mostly well on them, she was very hit or miss when it came to asking her to spell a word from a new group, so I will need to make sure she remembers these a bit better.

Ethan saw some notable improvement in his times tables, adding 4x and 11x to his 3 and 4 times tables of ones he feels confident in answering, and he got a lot better in the game Hit The Button compared to previous times as well as over the course of the session thanks to my assistance. He instantly took note of my advice in at least ruling out answers which belong to numbers to equations he knows off by heart so his performance in the game is a lot better. I am happier with how he is spelling -tion words as well, less mistakes than when we first started.

He does still panic quite a bit playing Hit The Button when it comes to answering 6-9x questions (generally the most difficult ones to memorise for students) but he is more aware of which answers relate to those now after my advice about narrowing the pool of numbers.