Our school year program is drawing to a close here at LIST and by the end of next week, we will have completed nearly 600 tutoring sessions this year! That makes for close to 6800 total session since we opened our doors five years ago!
This year has been a bit different in that some of our long time attendees had to stop coming for various reasons. We are finding that if our students start attending LIST in the first or second grade level, they are more than ready to move into Junior High without much help from us. Many of our students are going to charter schools that have built in after school tutoring as well. So, it was sad to see our students move on from us, but we are so excited to see the great work that they can now do easily on their own. Even though we saw some attrition of students, we still maintain a waiting list of 20-30 students. So while some students left for various reasons, there were many more students to take their place.
Some of the highlights of the year were our Delicious Dessert Tea Party where many of our students talked about why they enjoy coming to LIST and how it has helped them. In connection with this, we had our first Chef’s School where many of our students participated in the making of some of the desserts served at the Tea Party. We also continued our art classes, but we extended them to include other topics (a great example is the Chef’s School). One memorable Saturday class was a science class where we made two paper airplanes exactly the same except for the material they were made with. One was made of regular printer paper and the other was made of card stock. The test was then to see which one flew the farthest. The card stock airplane flew further, but when we started adding tape and paper clips, the card stock airplane became too heavy.
Anyway, it has been a fantastic year and while I am looking forward to a break, I am also excited for our summer program to begin at the end of July where we will spend time doing more science experiments and some review as well.
