Summer Tutoring for Mathematics & Literacy

WestView Learning not only provides day programs for students studying at a distance, we provide personalized tutoring for mathematics and literacy skills in 1-1 or small group sessions of 2-3 students. Biweekly sessions are suggested for students struggling to achieve grade level.

Orton Gillingham - K-7 Literacy: Literacy tutoring takes several formats depending upon grade level, road blocks, and specific focus. Students grade K- 7 may struggle with their spelling, writing and reading. In addition to utilizing resources from many years of classroom instruction K-7, tutoring sessions are focused by the Orton Gillingham methodology which originated from the work of Samuel T Orton and Anna Gillinham, physician and psychologist, who were working with clients with reading disabilities. This methodology offers rationale connections to symbols/ sounds of our language, providing support for encoding (spelling/writing) and decoding (reading).

Writing Gr 8-12 tutoring - we also provide support for the students who are not hampered by spelling (encoding) or reading (decoding) challenges, but rather needs to learn how to organize their thoughts into prose and non-fiction formats, develop story line, paragraph and/or essay structure, then we have several weekly writing classes for this group of learners.

Mathematics - the early years: having a firm foundation in primary/early intermediate math skills is a necessary foundation for an appreciation of math rather than a growing aversion. Through assessment of your child’s development of their math foundation a customized path is develop to firm up the foundation and provide language around sharing their math process with the instructor and learning how to phrase requests for intervention to match their learning process. Orton Gillingham approach, early math manipulatives provides a concrete, visual opening for students who have struggled in the past. Senior math support is also available.

Please contact us at www. westviewlearning. ca to learn more about how we can support your child through the summer.

Build a Cob Bench using Invasive Species

A highlight of the month is an experimental cob bench building project, where we will use invasive Scotch Broom as the fiber in this traditional earth building technique. We will be gathering Scotch Broom as a part of an ongoing invasive species effort, and creating with it instead of wasting it. This is a part of an ongoing effort at The Resiliency Project to find beautiful creative uses for invasives, including basketry and fibre arts. Come out to learn about cob building, and help us build a beautiful bench for the Elders’ Community Garden at the Cowichan Farm and Food Hub! Free admission, everyone welcome! Build a Cob Bench using Invasive Species Saturday June 25, 10am - 4pm Cowichan Farm and Food Hub, 2431 Beverly St

For more information about the month-long event, and to reserve tickets, please visit www. cowichangreen community.org. For the bees!