Testing!

Well...notice that I am putting these posts up only about a month late! Life has been crazy. We finally finished testing at our school. I really work hard on putting test prep into our curriculm all year long with just a couple questions here and there. I think it is more importnat to put the focus on helping them become better thinkers than test takers, but I also don't want them to get caught up on the format of the test. I am very proud of how far they have come this year. One thing that we did this year was to create anchor charts on how good thinkers think about a test.

We really worked this year on putting deeper thinking into everything we do. The kids have done a marvelous job, but that is a skill that doesn't easily translate to a bubble test. So we just worked on different ways to help understand the way test makers design the tests. We won't know for awhile if it helped the kids, but I do know they were prepared for the test.

At the end of the day I know I did all I could to prepare them for that test. I know they did everything they could during the test and there is really nothing else that matters. At the end of testing we always have a bubble party to celebrate the ending of testing. Well thanks to pinterest, it got an extra dose of cuteness!