Friday was hard because I was also running the alternative classroom, so it was hard to keep him engaged and try and get the other kids to work or at least not destroy the room.
Monday was awesome. I spent the weekend gathering materials for him to work on. His teacher only gave a small amount of work, so I searched out stuff for each subject for his grade level. On Friday I noticed he could not read. Monday, I figured out the reason why he cannot read most words is because he does not know the middle part of the alphabet. I made flash cards for the letters and for basic sight words. One thing is the Yup'ik alphabet only has maybe 17 letters, so I am wondering if the ones he does not know are ones not in the Yup'ik alphabet. I am unsure if he was in the immersion program and I do not want to ask his dad in case it comes off as a criticism. Basically I am teaching him third grade math and kindergarten reading, and grade level science and social studies, but I read the material and help him write the answers after we talk about it. I am not sure yet if anything is helping him yet, though he did know what the letter "T" was today after multiple activities involving it on Monday. He is a FAS child, just FYI.
I think he is a pretty nice boy, at least one on one. He listens and does his work and does not run away or talk back to me. We are doing way more work then he does in class, so I throw in some fun activities like coloring fun sheets I have or a brief Bill Nye the Science Guy when he seems to be getting overwhelmed or tired.