Five for Friday! Testing is Over!

A very special Five for Friday to celebrate

the end of testing (for this year)!!

 

Thank you Doodle Bugs Teaching!

 

5. This is a reenactment of our testing sessions:

 

 

 For four days in a row, my young learners sat in an empty classroom and completed the Stanford 10. On Thursday, the test took my first graders FIVE hours to complete. We did it in short sessions with water, snack, restroom, and exercise breaks.  On Friday, we had a pizza party to celebrate and made posters depicting how we rocked the test. The above poster is from one of my students. She drew me walking around the room to "make sure we keep going!" I'm very surprised, but glad that I'm smiling in the picture. But it looks like I need to schedule a manicure!

 

4. Although the week was a complete blur, I did manage to snap this cutie holding his science project:

 

I ♥ how proud he is of his hard work!

 

3. Speaking of science, we have the most amazing team of science teachers! Here's what I snapped when I walked in to pick up a student for testing:

 

 

2.  This one is not exactly teaching-related,

but it was an important part of my week!

 

 

Testing accommodations for my students include multiple and frequent breaks. The challenge is doing an activity that is quiet while the rest of the classrooms are testing! I ended up breaking out this yoga card set and my students LOVED it! They definitely took liberties with the poses, but I just chalked that up to creativity :)  You can find this set here.

 

1. My escape break from testing continues to be revising last year's activity packs! It's been so much fun to do.

Check out my latest:

 

 

I added 39 new pages to this unit. If you have already purchased it, thank you very much! Please go to your purchases at TPT and redownload to receive the new picture/text cards, mini-book pages, and more!

 

Thanks for reading ~ have a super weekend!