I walked into the cafeteria to my usual student Mitchell kneeling on his seat waving at me, I had a feeling that it was going to be a good session. Since Mitchell was sick last week and reading days I hadn’t seen him in a while so it was nice to see him again. He asked me what I thought of his shirt and I gave him a compliment to start the session off right. We took a fieldtrip to his classroom to get his math workbook. Mitchell’s classroom was close to the library, where we have tutoring, but I am still baffled by how these students navigate in this huge school. We sat down and Mitchell did his homework. Mitchell does his homework very quickly once he sits down, however the main problem is checking over his answers. He gets very frustrated and angry when he gets things wrong. When I showed him what was wrong with the problem he got upset and just put his head down. He was clearly tired after a long day of school I don’t blame him I would be too. I decided that we weren’t going to get anywhere with the correcting the math homework so we moved on to the three word and counting worksheets he also had to complete. He used his lack of sleep as an excuse for his counting worksheet, an area he always struggles with. Mitchell responds very well with deals I made him a deal that I would tell him the pattern if he would then fill in the numbers, or I would give him the first number, anything to get him rolling. I helped him with his antonym worksheet and then we got to play for the last ten minutes. Even with his hissy fits I love working with Mitchell, he is a great child and I am excited to see him continues to succeed in his academics.