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.