Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Puppy says,"Now where, the frig!"


This over hang must way a ton. I hope it does not fall on anyone. It is in a place where no one else walks.
It is light, now, until ten thirty p.m., we are waiting for spring. Our principal said the we have spring, summer, and fall in the month of July.
We are doing state testing today. The test had sixty-five questions and was not timed. It is hard to get a quarter of the kids to work for ten minutes at a time. Some of the slow readers went from nine thirty till two o'clock with 30 minutes off for lunch. I don't know of any of the kids that are on ADD drugs. We just teach them when we can get them settled down. The reading test had a big 5 paragraph essay question. Tomorrow is the writing, what will they have to do, write a short story? 

1 comment:

Winifred said...

Hecky thump as they say in Yorkshire. When will it go?

Those light nights are great aren't they. We don't get them until June. I remember going to Sweden on holiday one summer and it was only dark for a couple of hours.

Do all the students do the tests or just a specific age group?
Here in the UK my grandson is doing his SATS( Standards Assessment Tests)next month, he's 11 and in Year 6. They also do them at the end of Year 9 when they're about 14.

Not sure I agree with them as the marking of them last year caused a massive outcry. They were badly marked and some results were very late. They are also very stressful as they are being tested and trained for months in advance. However I suppose you need some measure of a child's progress.