Growth

As we get ready to leave for the holiday break we have been doing all kinds of testing before the kids forget everything we have taught them. I spend most of the year worrying about the lack of perfomance so I am going to celebrate right now and worry again when the new year comes.  Overall we have seen movement!!!!! Wooo HOOO! I am so excited for the incredible growth of some of my kids! But along with these great success I also have some challenges and I am not sure how to take their lack of growth!
SOOO,  I am going to focus on the positive.

What are your successes? What can you celebrate before we have to got back to worrying.

Learning and the Holidays

Hmmm. The holidays! We have students who have been back for a week and half and still have not recovered from the Thanksgiving break! With a TWO week break coming up how do you keep the kids focused before the holiday and how do you get them back into good learning habits when they get back?