Jim and Daegan earned their first karate belts tonight: yellow-stripe. To say the younger was pleased and proud of himself would be quite the understatement. Here they are in a pic with their instructor.
Last month, over several days and with me administering, Daegan took the CAT-3 standardized exam (level 13, which is the one for end of grade 3). You can find details about the exam here. It’s a Canadian exam with 7 parts: Reading/Language, Math Concepts, Word Analysis, Vocabulary, Writing Conventions, Computation and Numerical Estimation, and Dictation [...]
This morning I gave the boys the same reading assessment I gave them last year around this time. Gareth’s results of last year are here, and Daegan’s here. You can find the reading assessment here, if you want to try it with your own kids. I am very pleased to see that both my boys [...]
I gave Gareth the same assessment I gave Daegan, but I modified it by rewriting the words on index cards so as they were larger for him. I wanted to get a baseline reading level for him, so we can see how he improves by this time next year, as Gareth is just starting to [...]
I just gave Daegan the same informal reading assessment I did with him last year in February. His reading level is grade 7.35. Last year his reading level was grade 6, so we’re seeing improvement, which is the goal. Here is the list of words for the grade 7 reading level; Daegan was able to [...]