Tangled Web We Weave

Well, AIMS, our state testing, is over, after a lot of headache, heartache, blood, sweat, and tears. Therapy should be on our health insurance.

In order to motivate students to do well on AIMS prep we did the weeks before AIMS, we did this big plan where a certain goal met on math and reading AIMS prep, allowed for the student to receive one "vote" for a teacher to play in a teacher vs. student basketball game and another vote for a teacher to get a pie in the face during this game's half-time. I was the only one to sign up and possible player/pie-receiver for this Hoops for High Scores.

The game is on Monday and it will be absolutely crazy! I've been voted as both a basketball player for the younger game and a receiver of the pie during half-time (one of my students, Angelie, will be pieing me). I can't believe it's actually happening, but anything to get our students revved up for five days of exhaustive testing.

Also, we're having Wacky Wednesday, which is kept a secret from our students until the actual day. It's a professional development half-day, so the school day ends at 12. Our professional development is vertical alignment that will hopefully help grade levels communicate better. In order to help this take place, all teachers are switching grade levels. They're putting our big, bad junior high teachers in kindergarten and who knows what they'll do with the rest of us. We find out on Monday.

My school is crazy!