Do any of you with kids in the lower grades test your kids? I wasn’t going to when I started, but I am testing Tim all week anyway. I wanted to have something besides his work, to have in one place, that gave a sample of all our state requires him to know. He took the language arts test today, he’s doing math tomorrow, science on Wednesday, and social studies on Thursday. He only missed two answers out of 77 on the language arts, I was so jazzed! That’s the subject that he’s come the farthest in this year. When we started he didn’t even know all the names of the letters, much less the sounds they made. I had planned on reviewing for the rest of the year, but he really can’t stand repeating things, and I knew he had retained most of what we taught, so why drag it out? This way, if there’s some things that he doesn’t really remember, we can work on those for the last few weeks.

I also revised our school calendar. I originally had his last day of school in the middle of July, with only about two weeks off before starting 1st grade. But I decided to end on May 30, and then we’ll just use T4L and some of the other online sites we like to keep him on a schedule. It just won’t be anything I have to record or worry about, which will give me time to write up the lesson plan for next year. If I have something down on paper, I am terrible about thinking that I have to stick to it. So, changing our last day of school will take pressure off of both of us!