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This extra bit of time will give you the chance to plan a great celebration for her! Channel that frustration into making a surprise congratulation party/dinner! Ohhh the possibilities are endless - if you want to brainstorm, you should PM me - I looooove planning theme parties!
But you know, I'm thinking about it now and... her greatest reward might be in getting the chance to tell YOU how great she did!
Congratulations!!!!
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We had our state testing the first week of March. You know, the test they get to take on what they should have learned by the end of the year. Yes, they are tested the 7th month of school on what they should have learned by the end of the 9th month. Oh, we don't get the results back until the first week of September so we have no idea where to place students.
Pixies for all you are testing now and in the next month!
As a fourth grade teacher in the state of Florida, I can completely feel where you're coming from! Congrats to your daughter, and best of luck to her on the Reading portion!
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Congrats to your DD. My DD is dyslexic and also must pass. This too makes me crazy. She gets to take the reading test with her dyslexia teacher who can read the passages to her, since this is a comprehension test, but this is not done on any of the other tests, math and science, which are mostly READING PASSAGES!
She barely passed the reading test and we are anxiously awaiting the results of the math test. She is currently taking the science test today.
All this stress for a straight A student who just happens to learn differently!
Lorraine..You should check with the counselors at your school. It should be easy to get your DD's other tests read to her as well. My DS was on a 504 for about four years (problems with focusing and reading)...and his math tests were read to him (we only had math and reading at that time...but I'm sure the science and social studies would have been too).
Lorraine..You should check with the counselors at your school. It should be easy to get your DD's other tests read to her as well. My DS was on a 504 for about four years (problems with focusing and reading)...and his math tests were read to him (we only had math and reading at that time...but I'm sure the science and social studies would have been too).
Thanks for the advice HiddenMickey! Unfortunately, since she is not SpEd, no ARD, no IEP. She is a A/B student, all A's this year, so they have concluded she has developed coping skills. She does get special accomodations, a separate set of textbooks at home from which we read all her assignments and no spelling test grades taken, but that's about it.
Her teacher told her on Friday (4/20), so we "Celebrated" by going to her favorite pizza/game place and letting her play all the games she wanted while my parents and sat in the movie room and watched "Chitty CHitty Bang Bang". SHe and I also went to our local zoo and had fun doing all the crafts set out for Earth Day and playing with our new video camera. (I bought the video camera for us to use at DIsney ) SO she had a blast celebrating her success.
Of course when she got in the car Fiday the first thing she did was to call her dad and both sets of grandparents and her uncle and anyone else she could think of that would listen to her.
Thanks for letting me share the news with ya'll while I waited to share with her.
I live in Texas also and while I don't have any kiddos...I do know some of my friend's kids that deal with this and its SO stressful for them and ESPECIALLY the kids.
Here's hoping this policy changes soon and congrat to your daughter.
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Thanks for the advice HiddenMickey! Unfortunately, since she is not SpEd, no ARD, no IEP. She is a A/B student, all A's this year, so they have concluded she has developed coping skills. She does get special accomodations, a separate set of textbooks at home from which we read all her assignments and no spelling test grades taken, but that's about it.
I am a SpEd teacher and had to conduct some of the testing at our school this past week. I am also one of our campus Test Coordinators Correct me if I am wrong, but you said your DD is dsylexic? If that is the case, then you need to push for 504 and have the oral modification used. This will allow her to have her math and science test read to her. This will also help when she is in 8th grade and has to take math, reading, science and social studies. They can all be read to her. You really should check into this...she doesn't have to be SpEd to receive this. I know several kids that are dyslexic in our school and we use the 504 modification I stated above and they had their test (math, science and social studies)read to them. Does this make sense? I know of more mods you can ask for...if you PM I will explain further. My DD is 504 and has oral modifications for testing. She struggles with math...bad! I know the test have been take, but that ya'll get great scores back
Her teacher told her on Friday (4/20), so we "Celebrated" by going to her favorite pizza/game place and letting her play all the games she wanted while my parents and sat in the movie room and watched "Chitty CHitty Bang Bang". SHe and I also went to our local zoo and had fun doing all the crafts set out for Earth Day and playing with our new video camera. (I bought the video camera for us to use at DIsney ) SO she had a blast celebrating her success.
Of course when she got in the car Fiday the first thing she did was to call her dad and both sets of grandparents and her uncle and anyone else she could think of that would listen to her.
Thanks for letting me share the news with ya'll while I waited to share with her.
to your DD I am glad ya'll were able to celebrate! My DD struggles with math, but always does well with the reading so I understand your frustration.
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for you since you can't share the great news with her just yet!
) SO she had a blast celebrating her success. 
Correct me if I am wrong, but you said your DD is dsylexic? If that is the case, then you need to push for 504 and have the oral modification used. This will allow her to have her math and science test read to her. This will also help when she is in 8th grade and has to take math, reading, science and social studies. They can all be read to her. You really should check into this...she doesn't have to be SpEd to receive this. I know several kids that are dyslexic in our school and we use the 504 modification I stated above and they had their test (math, science and social studies)read to them. Does this make sense? I know of more mods you can ask for...if you PM I will explain further. My DD is 504 and has oral modifications for testing. She struggles with math...bad! I know the test have been take, but 
that ya'll get great scores back 
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I am glad ya'll were able to celebrate! My DD struggles with math, but always does well with the reading so I understand your frustration.
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