I wanted to share this great post with other
grandparents… You can  read the rest of this very interesting story ‘Kids Tutoring Kids’ at Meryl’s Blog 

Meryl says: I coach a Science Olympiad team and this year our B team (or JV team) was short on members. The 3rd grade sister of one of our A team members volunteered to take on the Fossils event. Typically Science Olympiad team members are 6th grade and above, but as we needed an extra student, we were happy to take her.

Fossils happens to be her older brother’s event and he has started coaching her. I believe he holds up a fossil and asks her what it looks like. She may say, “like a unicorn horn”. He lets her write that down in her notebook – and then tells her the scientific name which she writes alongside it.

Later he tests her – and when he holds up that fossil, she looks at her homemade key – finds the ‘unicorn horn’ and gives the correct name from her homemade key.

Isn’t that a cool story? And the best thing is, her brother will be cementing the knowledge in his brain as he teaches her.

Read the rest of this very interesting story at Meryl’s Blog ….. I think
grandparents will appreciate her ideas about having a teen-ager tutor instead of baby-sitting… it pays better and children learn well from one another!

She tells about how she tutored math when she was a teen-ager and she believes that’s why she remembers it all so well although she has never had to use it as an adult…

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