Spring is Here!

Flowers are in bloom, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, students are getting squirrely, and the pollen is making our heads as stuffed as a Thanksgiving turkey! This time of year is definitely a mixed bag. However, this is also a time when it is easy to become anxious about end of year assessments. Stressing over EOGs (or K-2 End of year assessments) and inundating students with practice tests has not been shown to yield great returns. What it does usually increase is disillusionment with school, majors, and minors, and that is just how it affects the adults.😆
I am in no way suggesting that you should not review areas that may need to be reviewed with your students. However, there are fun ways to review that do not include huge packets of practice passages.

After a few quick searches online, I found this site with some fun ideas, easily adaptable to other grade level curriculums.

http://www.fifthinthemiddle.com/2018/05/tic-tac-booyah.html

https://www.smore.com/2xe51-eog-review-ideas

I am sure there are so many more!! Please consider these ideas and save some trees!

Also please trust how much you have done all year to help your students grow. You have built relationships to assure that students would learn from you and you have done your best to be sure that they get the scaffolding or the advancement that meets their needs. Have faith that you do not need to "cram".

Busy times in Kindergarten:
Ms. McMahon's Piggy Play
Community Helper Day!