This post is brought to you by the letter L.
I met a boy named Kenree last year. He has a temper and is not educated and is always getting in trouble. Something pulled on my heart I think it was the Holy Spirit and the fact that I made lots of trouble when I was his age.
Coming back this year he remembered me and we instantly had a relationship to work off of. I had helped bring him to tutoring last year, but he had since dropped out. A member of team Helene suggested that I bring him back to tutoring and work with him one on one.
Yesterday I brought him and he was good but he could not remember the letter L for the life of him. He would go abcdefghijk…..ummm.uh.n.. At the end of the day I had him walk out of the building holding his left hand in the shape of an L and saying L. L. L L.
Before the tutoring today which runs from 5-6 I had been working on the house again. We did not get back til 4:55. Leaving 5 minutes to change and relax. After yesterdays L limbo I was not exactly encouraged. I shot off a quick prayer for energy, paitiance and for him to remember the letter L!
I had him look at the alphabet point at each letter and say them. DANG L. He had the rest of it down expect L. I got by a white board and wrote L. And would point to L and than A. He finally seemed to recognize it. I had him start at the top. ABCDEFGHIJKL..YES HE SAID L. Unlike yesterday, he did not forget again. And as we were walking out I had him make his hand in the shape of an L and without hesitation he said “L”.
The rest of the hour we worked more on the alphabet and than I read him a book ran through alphabet flashcards, and than did a puzzle to finish off. The hour went fantacitly well. I left feeling encourage and energized. And another prayer answered. Please pray for his attitude to stay so good and to keep him out of trouble.
So a big day for the letter L. Next week we will start writting down the alphabet!
Itching my legs,
Paul
Hi Paul,
Keep working with Kenree and I bet he will have the alphabet down in no time! I will pray for him.
Sorry your legs are itchy.
Love,
Mom
Thanks for the Posts. Glad you are making an impact one life–indeed on letter “L” at a time.
Continue to do HIS work.
love,
dad
Hi Paul,
I’ve enjoyed reading about your days in Helene.
Nice teaching strategies with Kenree, as you are using visual, auditory, and motor modalities. It may be interesting to see which works best for him.
I’ll look forward to reading more.
Diane E.
“To be a disciple, we must be willing not only to accept guidance mentally(in principle), but to follow physically(in action)…” ~unknown