My team of reading paras did reading testing all day long. We will continue through Friday. We test all the k-5th graders in the school to see where their reading skills are. It's to make sure all the kids are in the right groups to build their skills.
My birthday is exactly one month from today, and I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve already started searching up my cake. I’m pretty sure it’s going to be a Baskin Robbins cake + ice cream layer delight.
My team of reading paras did reading testing all day long. We will continue through Friday. We test all the k-5th graders in the school to see where their reading skills are. It's to make sure all the kids are in the right groups to build their skills.
We just finished these at my school, except the reading and AIS teachers do them all. UGH so tedious.
My team of reading paras did reading testing all day long. We will continue through Friday. We test all the k-5th graders in the school to see where their reading skills are. It's to make sure all the kids are in the right groups to build their skills.
We just finished these at my school, except the reading and AIS teachers do them all. UGH so tedious.
Same here! I hope to finish the benchmark tomorrow and then on to diagnostic testing!
This is definitely random, but I've been putting on old cooking shows on Hulu when I want some background noise, like Barefoot Contessa episodes from the late 2000s. It has been oddly soothing for me. I used to watch Food Network all the time in the late 2000s while I was in grad school and still living at my parents and it's really where I learned how to cook, so I guess its comforting to me and reminds me of those days. Anyway, DS (7) has been curling up with me and watching them and he is enjoying them too. Tonight, he learned how to cook clams on the grill, and how to know when a clam is ready to eat, lol. This has been fun for me and I hope he shares my interest in cooking someday.
It's rainy here and DD's middle school has almost 0 busing so rainy day dismissal is a nightmare. I left 40 minutes early and was still not particularly close up last time. I'm going to leave an hour before dismissal this time to see if that makes a different. Absolutely ridiculous. The line backs up 1.5 miles and is so slow, so just waiting to go get her when it dies down is also not a great option. Normally she walks part way home; most kids do the same, either part way or all the way home.
Can she walk a couple blocks and you meet her away from the school a bit?
My kids (MS/HS age) love to act outraged about rainy weather, and I'm just like "I'm not asking you to walk, I'm telling you to, put on your raincoat". Of course that doesn't work well if it's freezing rain and may be dangerous.
The rain here is very unpredictable. In a light drizzle, it's fine and she does walk a couple blocks but it had been going from light drizzle to full on deluge all day.
My team of reading paras did reading testing all day long. We will continue through Friday. We test all the k-5th graders in the school to see where their reading skills are. It's to make sure all the kids are in the right groups to build their skills.
That's awesome that you have paras to do it. Our schools make our teachers do it. There are whole months that they are testing all day between all the different required tests. It's completely counterproductive and contributes greatly to behavior problems.
Someone gave me Crumbl cookies yesterday. I’ve always wanted to try those, and I was so disappointed. I had chocolate chip, and it was quite a bit worse than the average chocolate chip cookie.
Someone gave me Crumbl cookies yesterday. I’ve always wanted to try those, and I was so disappointed. I had chocolate chip, and it was quite a bit worse than the average chocolate chip cookie.
Oh, they’re terrible. H loves them, but there is entirely too much going on with their cookies and they are just not that good. (With the exception of their brownie cookie and their strawberry shortcake cookie, both of which I could still only eat a little bit of, but what I ate I enjoyed. But, also, I ate these when I was high, so take my perspective with a grain of salt.)
My birthday is exactly one month from today, and I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve already started searching up my cake.
Same! The last few years I've ordered myself some half pound cookies from City Cakes, but they closed recently. I'm looking for a replacement but haven't found the right one yet. I live alone, so the cookies were great because I could freeze and defrost as I was ready for them. I don't want something huge because I will eat it all. Rapidly.
Someone gave me Crumbl cookies yesterday. I’ve always wanted to try those, and I was so disappointed. I had chocolate chip, and it was quite a bit worse than the average chocolate chip cookie.
Oh, they’re terrible. H loves them, but there is entirely too much going on with their cookies and they are just not that good. (With the exception of their brownie cookie and their strawberry shortcake cookie, both of which I could still only eat a little bit of, but what I ate I enjoyed. But, also, I ate these when I was high, so take my perspective with a grain of salt.)
As someone whose favorite dessert is cookies, this is so disappointing. Are Insomnia also bad? I’ve also been wanting to try those.
Oh, they’re terrible. H loves them, but there is entirely too much going on with their cookies and they are just not that good. (With the exception of their brownie cookie and their strawberry shortcake cookie, both of which I could still only eat a little bit of, but what I ate I enjoyed. But, also, I ate these when I was high, so take my perspective with a grain of salt.)
As someone whose favorite dessert is cookies, this is so disappointing. Are Insomnia also bad? I’ve also been wanting to try those.
My team of reading paras did reading testing all day long. We will continue through Friday. We test all the k-5th graders in the school to see where their reading skills are. It's to make sure all the kids are in the right groups to build their skills.
We just finished these at my school, except the reading and AIS teachers do them all. UGH so tedious.
My mom is a retired kinder teacher from the district I now work for. She said classroom teachers use to have to do all the testing. I'm not sure when the switch was made. Sometime in the last 14 years as she retired in 2010.