The dreaded (DOMMMMM!!!) CRCT tests are completed. So we celebrated today by heading down the trail to the little brook. Lori, my wonderful student teacher, kept half the class in the room while I took a baker's dozen little scholars wading and exploring the creek. After thirty minutes of adventure I traded them to Lori for the other 12.
We found periwinkle snails, crawdads, and salamanders.
And of course dozens of imagined snakes. Every little black stick in the water came to life in 10-year-old imagination.
The joys of all the ordinary extraordinaries of freshwater invertebrates - water striders, spiders, water pennies, the nymphs of mayflies and stoneflies and dragonflies, and those snails and crawdads.
Few dry threads found their way back up the hill to the other school world.
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Here's a song about testing (hat tip to Best Practices in Education)
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