3:15 am with coffee and dogs
The girls slept in this morning to 3:15. Yay for me! Fed them an early breakfast and let them loose in the front yard to howl at the coyotes. Then back in the house for their after breakfast nap. I wish I could fall asleep as quickly as my dogs do.This is progress monitoring week for the students. I think it is more stressful for me than it is for the kids and that is okay. They perform better if they're relaxed and it shows in their scores. I've already finished progress monitoring the first graders and while they were a bit of a challenge, they did really well. I was proud of them.
Evaluating these young students can sometimes feel like herding cats but there really is no feeling like it when these kids do well on their testing. And the best part of this is when they do well, they have a sense of accomplishment and it gives them the motivation to keep working hard at their lessons.
Take care,
Teresa, Zenji and CeeCee
