Testing Like a Real Subject

This year, my county required me to have a formal assessment for each grade level. Kindergarten and 1st did aural assessments as a group, but I made grades 2-5 take an actual written test. Each grade took the test within the first 6-weeks of school, at the 18-week mark and again last week as their final assessment.

Instruments laid out for Kinders identification of instruments by sight and sound.

So many papers!

I don't know which was worse: making these tests, grading these tests, or sitting quietly for a whole period while the students took the tests! I am definitely not a sit still and quiet kind of person. That is for sure.

BONUS: April is the Modern Period! Time to learn a bit about Prokofiev, Sousa and Joplin!