Assessment

I have finally gotten my hands on the book that the state of IL has published with the Early Learning Standards for Kindergarten and Early Learning Benchmarks. I have wanted this document for several months so that I could assess the kids and make sure we are on the right track. Over the next month I plan to document how each of the children has met, been exposed to, or needs to be exposed to each of the benchmarks for their age group. When I did this for Reba Place it took hours and I had to do it for 16 kids. I am hoping that it wont take as long to do it for only 3 kids :) I will probably type this up so that I can print it and save it. This way of documenting will give me a direction for our curriculum and it will document accurately where each of the children are academically.

The more time I spend with the kids the more convinced that I am following Gods will for my life. I pray that doing this assessment doesn't stress me out and ruin what we are doing.