Utica tutoring program offers one-on-one help, mostly to immigrant children
Amy Neff Roth, Observer-Dispatch
Here are a few things to know about Watson-Williams Elementary School fifth-grader Friday Moon.
She was born in Thailand, but came to the United States as a baby.
She was born on a Friday.
“So my mom, being her, said let’s name her Friday because she couldn’t think of anything better,” the 10-year-old said.
She loves reading, especially “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” but finds fifth-grade math a bit frustrating with equations full of parentheses, exponents and different math operations.
So when the Midtown Utica Community Center started offering Zoom tutoring during the pandemic, Friday signed up.