This new school grades on a 1-4 system. Per his teacher, 1=Yikes!, 2=Needs some help, 3=Average/Right where we want them to be, & 4=Above Average/Outstanding. My munchkin's grades are:
Enrichment=4
Language Arts=4
Reading=4
Mathematics=4
Social Studies=4
Science=4
Music=4
Phys Ed=4
Moral Focus Curriculum=3 (This is huge for munchkin since two years ago he was kicked off the bus and last year he was suspended for a half-of-a-day!)
On his Oral Fluency Assessment Test he scored 97%, they are expected to read 107 words correctly and accurately scoring 90% in one minute. Munchkin read all 159 words with 4 errors in one minute.
His school does their own standardized testing similar to MEAPs and his scores were:
Mathematics=197 (Normal Group Average=180; District Average Rate=176)
Reading=200 (Normal Group Average=180; District Average Rate=174)
Language Usage=194 (Normal Group Average=181; District Average Rate=175)
Need I say more?! Pure genius... Don't worry, I won't tell him if you won't. I can hardly live with him now and if his head gets bigger he will be unbearable... Instead I'll just bask in the glory of his greatness.
yay for smart kiddos!
ReplyDeletewe were just talking about the changes in the grading/scoring of kids at work the past few days. its different from when i went to school :)
I hear ya there!
ReplyDeleteTalk about feeling old...it is when you are sitting in your child's second grade classroom and not a clue of how they are grading his stuff! YIKES!!!