Just...PROUD.

This is my 3rd year teaching 3rd grade, and the 3rd time that I have been stressed out to the max for the SAGE test. These 3rd graders struggle so much just learning the letters on the keyboard! Asking them to them type an essay using details and facts from several passages in an article has felt like such an unconquerable task!

But they did it!

Teaching 4th and 5th grades I felt more confidence going into the test, and of course, my students were more confident as well.

But 3rd graders. JUST...struggle.

Tuesday I was walking around as I proctored one of my SAGE Writing tests, looking at what the students were asked to write about. I felt confident that they had practice enough and were going to do well. I told my students that I was so proud of them for all of their hard work. I expressed confidence that all of the work we did on Utah Compose and in Sage Formative will have paid off. They were ready.

So glad I learned to use those websites. I feel it really prepared them!

Best and saddest part of checking out their tests and how they were doing in that hour...my student, who has horrible spelling, was using the spell check and almost all of her words needed to be fixed. She was being very diligent on getting them all changed. She would click on the highlighted word and it would say, "Did you mean...?" Then she would click a word that it should be spelled like. Sometimes she chose the right ones, sometimes she chose the wrong ones. This one was my fave. Trying to say "In conclusion", she spell checked her "cocloosin" to "cancerous". So now, her essay that she submitted, says, "In cancerous, that is why you should....more than ....."

LAUGHED my head off. In my mind. Cute.