Review Week and Exams

The last two weeks of teaching for us at school was Review Week and Exams. On review week we were not supposed to teach anything new just review on things that we have already taught. We also had to send home a review outline telling the parents what their students needed to be studying. During review  week I had about 10 parents come to talk to me to specify what they should be studying. It seemed so strange for me to was that 8 year olds were studying for exams.

Exam week was also interesting, the students had to write 4 exams a day and some of their parents stayed at school all day to ensued that they were studying on their breaks. I felt pretty good about our exams going into them, I thought they were fair and that there should not be any problems for the kids writing them. The math exam was fine, but immediately after explaining the science exam, I freaked out because I thought it would be too hard for my students. During the whole hour I was panicking thinking that my students were going to fail. But surprisingly they all did fine. The English exam was a lot more difficult for the students I think mainly because of the amount of reading they had to do. I felt so bad for the students in my /3 class because they had no idea what was going on and when I went up to retrieve the exam the Thai Teacher informed me that it was a very difficult.

In these two weeks I learned so much about assessment and making exams, but I feel that these new skills may go to waste a little bit because I will NEVER make an exam or test for students below grade 5, but you never know what I will end up teaching in the future.

To let my kids relax for the last two days of me teaching them, I just let them play and build. One of my kids said to me "Ms.Alice, today is so fun!" Yep, that way they will miss me when I leave!