More assessments....

In addition to individual reading assessments, your children have been completing many other assessments this week.  They have learned what an assessment means and how important they are to a teacher.  They have learned that these activities are ones that they have to do ALL by themselves so I can see what they know.  It was also explained to them how a teacher looks at what each child knows in order to plan what to teach.  The students did a FANTASTIC job of practicing real assessing behaviors: being quiet, saying the answers in their head, looking only at their own paper, not asking a teacher or friend for help, trying their best, and simply skipping a question and moving on if it is too hard.