Test Prep Fun!

Hey all!  I don't know about you but all this testing nonsense really has me stressed out.  I can not stop thinking about how I can ensure my kids go from not knowing to mastering skills in days.  While I recognize that it is not possible- I do know that there are simple things that I can fix.  Lots of times my scholars have a hard time deciding what "trick" to use to add, subtract, multiply, or divide fractions.  Or when they set up a line plot they never put the fractions in order.  Or worse yet- They STILL don't use a place value chart to answer any question about place value- they would rather guess.

So I talked it over again with the most amazing co-teacher in the world and we came up with a GREAT idea!  We decided to take away our children's special (before you kill me hear me out.  I work at a school where 4 out of the 5 days of specials have a sub, and in the last week we have had 2 physical fights, 1 student embarrassed and parents calling mandatory meetings, and 5 days of NOTHING done).  We wanted to make it fun and NOT stressful at all because when we stress them out they obviously don't do well.  We make 6-7 centers depending on the week that reinforced or taught simple skills the scholars are getting wrong.  My kids would graph each day how they did and would work towards getting better at the skill,


It was AMAZING! Attached are some pictures of them working on the centers skills.  I included all documents I made.  Please feel free to use them or change them based on your needs.



Here is the graph that my students used to plot how they did:






Here is an example of the direction cards I made:

Here are the different pieces needed:

The Cover Page

The Centers Page the students write on

The task Cards I used

This is for the first week- I will gladly attach the centers we did for the 2nd week if you like!




Love,