Testing...Testing...

I just love standardized testing. ITBS, CogAT, Standford 9, Gateway...they are awesome! Just kidding. After a morning of testing with a group of EBD and LD 5th graders I am ready to beat my head against a wall...really hard. The kids have been real troopers (god I sound like a teacher)! Half way through the test they were all about to fall asleep including me. I took them on a walk around the school to help wake them up. Tomorrow is math. Then we have two days of make-ups and more testing ALL next week. I will have tested for 2 weeks straight!

Other news: Martha is doing better. I went to the hospital after work on Monday. She broke out in some sort of rash. But she did take a few steps. She was really with it when I was there but then they brought in the drugs. Shortly after I left the A.P. and two other teachers from my school showed up. Apparently the drugs had kicked in by then. When I got to school to day I got the run down of what Martha said/did:

1. Insisted to sing to her choir director over the phone...she refused to talk she wanted to sing!
2. Told Annette (sp. ed. teacher) that she (Martha) could not believe that I let Betty Ann (A.P.) cut my hair into a mohawk! Supposedly I really hate it!
3. Clifford the Big Red Dog and Barney came to visit along with some beautiful butterflies.
4. She told Betty Ann that the kids were being really bad. She was taking names and they would have to discuss it later.
5. According to Martha, Annette is pregnant (not really) and Bonnie (sp. ed. teacher) is walking around with her shirt over her head flashing everybody!

Martha is suppose to be moving to a rehab place on Wednesday. We all can't wait to tell her the silly things she said!