The Garden School Tattler

I was pretty excited yesterday with my part of the testing. We gave several tests and were able to see that the results of what we do at the Garden School have really worked. I'm so pleased for the children who have achieved so much.

About a week ago, I received a terrible nasty gram from a young woman who tried to denigrate what we do at the school as not age appropriate. She has no idea of what we do nor has she ever been at our school. What I would tell her if she visited us is that all our activities are eagerly awaited by our student body. Our children ask to be educated, and they reach for the sky. Every child is eager to build on his individual knowledge simply because we make it challenging and fun, and the children love being put to the measure, succeeding and then being rewarded. It makes them feel great. They want to know what other people know. They are aware that there is knowledge out there and they want it.

So I'm proud of the results of the 3 math tests we gave. The results define a child's ordinary knowledge of sequential numbers from one to one hundred. Here are the results:

(PS) means returnee from Public School
(K-4) means they were in my kindergarten class
(K-1) means they were in Kelly's Kindergarten- First grade

Faultless: Jack S (K-1), Hadley(K-1), Mayli (K-1), Peyton (K-1), Jack H (PS-1), Briauna C (PS-1), Kaito (K-4), Alexis (PS-K).

Missing 1: Dhezmond (PS-1)

Missing 2: Austin(K-1) and Morgen (PS-1)

Missing 3: Ty(K-1), Justin (K-4), Dawson(K-4)

Missing 6: Alan (PS-K)

Missing 8: Aidan (K-4)

Missing 11: Faith (K-4)

Missing 13: MJ (k-4)

Missing 14: Madison (k-4)

Missing 19: Caleb (PS-1)

There were 2 children who missed 29, 39,

The preschool who attempted a 1-25 test were

David, Alex and Triston and they did fine.

Those who were absent yesterday will take the test as we can give it.

One of the things to remember is that even missing 19 out of over 200 questions is an achievement and something a child can be proud of.

Reading results were even better. We have a couple of children who tested out at a second grade reading level. Results will be posted.

Today is the Freedom Festival field trip. It is supposed to be in the mid eighties which will be a relief. Yesterday it was so hot we couldn't bear outside for more than 30 minutes at a time.

Pizza from Angelo's!