Monday is mostly over. I have a 6th grade class this afternoon. For tomorrow the kids could elect to either continue reviewing or have their team earned extra recess. Of course they chose recess. Today I am half-heartedly reviewing for exams that start Wednesday. The kids can smell summer vacation and they are half-heartedly particpating in review. If you have read any of my blogs about these end of term exams, you've read enough of my feeling about exams; although, I just had an 8th grader come in to see what she got on her exam. She looked at the first part which was identifying independent and dependent variables from an experimental question. She got most of them right. She told me that they finally made sense as she was reviewing for the exam. Questions float in my mind about was it studying for the exam or was it that she was finally developmentally ready, and if it was the former, how long will she remember.
Anyway it is pretty much all over now for 6th and 7th grade. The mud has been thrown on the walls. Wednesday and Thursday I will check what stuck. Then I'll spend a day cleaning up the lab and 2 weeks thinking about life after teaching.
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