Keagan earned his first academic certificate today. I
am especially proud that it is in the field of mathematics; today he was able
to county by 5s. Because I had no idea that this would be assessed today, I was
a little surprised to find the award in his take home folder. I was even more
surprised to learn that a junior kindergarten program would even assess such a
skill. The teacher is after my own heart for sure!
Then I worried that Keagan might have been the kid that had finally gotten it
today when everyone else had moved on to M&M graphs. The horror of this
realization was, for me anyway, greater than any harm that an oral math test
might be for a five year old. I was relieved to know that today was the first
"test", and when I asked Keagan about it, he said, "My teacher
likes me the best because I am so smart!"
So it appears we have mastered skip counting AND we have more than enough
self-confidence.
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