First Test

Today Sean has his first spelling test. The words for the test were sent home on Monday. He knew all of them already but we we have been doing practice tests every evening. I have been stressing him to recheck everything before he turns his paper in, but it is not something he follows through. I have also been telling him that if he is not sure of a word he can raise his hand and ask Ms Jackson to repeat it again. I know if he pays attention he will get them all correct but will he be able to do that is the big question. I really hope so because he gets so so excited when he gets a 'Super' and 'Great Job' remark from the teacher for his work. I have to post pictures of those. Shall do that after i get home today. Definitely gives him a confidence boost so i hope he had it all together today..I'll find out soon. The spelling bee is going to be a weekly thing so I have to diligently work with him on his homework from now on. No more channel browsing for me until the kids go to bed.Oh well, i think its a good thing because its easier to get him also to sit down to do the work since there is a consequence now to not being adequately prepared. i only hope he has not inherited my exam 'jitters', I used to be super paranoid and I certainly dont want him to go down that path!

Also today is the day I get his first report ever from school...such a big day...he has been dreading it a bit and has been pretty unenthusiastic about it so i had to tell him that he's doing a good job and its a good way to find out his progress and what we need to work on harder..

UPDATE...

Picked Sean from school and guess what my little boy scored a perfect score for his first ever written test!!! I'm so proud of him. When i went to pick him he had this big smile on his face and he said 'Mommy, I scored 100 points' So cute..I gave him a big high five.
He said that he wants Mc Donalds for dinner as a treat. So off we went after picking Rhea up. He enjoyed his chicken nuggets and for a change he asked for french fries instead of his favorite apple dippers. Rhea of course had only the french fries. We came home and I took pictures of Sean with his test results...here they are,

Perfect Score!
If you notice closely he has written all his words in upper case.

His after care teacher said that they were not checking for upper case vs lower case just that they spell the word right. But the teacher had marked the words again in lower case. I'm so mad, if they were not checking for it, why mark it up. So this week we'll be working on doing our words in lower case. As a bonus, Sean was excused from homework today He is pretty good with doing his homework most days.

Here's a picture of him doing his homework yesterday..

Sean doing his homework