Feb 25th

I have spent the last few days helping my students prepare for their state assessments. I am focused on the math portion of the test. My area has been on math most of the semester, tryint to make sure athe kids have a basic understanding of math functions. From fractions to reading a ruler, basic geometry to simple addition. It is sad that most of these students have a second grade understaning of fifth grade math. It makes it difficult when they have no grasp over the multiplication table. I would like to start doing after school Math tutoring on Monday and Friday if I think it would help.

Feb 19th

After having completed giving the oral part of the test I was to give three students the listening, writing, and reading part of the exam. These three kids were absent the day they all were given the test. This was an entire day process. It took the first 30 plus kids a few hours, but I had to work around their other classes and try to find blocks to do the testing, that way these students could stay on top of their other subjects.

Feb 17

In the last week I have administered the KELPA testing for my fifth grade students in the two classrooms I work in. I was in charge of giving the oral portion to all students. I work mainly with the ESL kids in these classes. They were required to answer questions in their best English and in complete sentences. Each student's exam lasted about 20 minutes. Since I have the ESL classrooms nearly every student was required to take the test. I believe I had to give 34 tests out of 41 students while other Para's only had six to 10 between their classes. These tests took an entire week to complete due to working around their lunch, PE, Music, and Libary classes.