Terra Nova Terror

This week at school has been rather uneventful as it is Terra Nova testing week. Terra Nova is the standardized test DoDDs schools take, like the ISTEP in Indiana. Each day is filled with anywhere from an hour and a half to two and a half hours of testing. Monday was reading, Tuesday language, Wednesday math, Thursday is science, and Friday is social studies. There's a good possibility I mixed Thursday and Friday up, but you get the picture.

Because of the testing each morning, the schedule is all sorts of messed up the rest of the day. Yesterday was super hectic with two classes during two different periods of the day. Talk about loud and crowded. During seventh period yesterday it was a rowdy class (they've been coming in the library for a couple weeks), but they also had a sub, so they were even crazier. The other class during seventh period was a middle school class. Enough said. It was crazy. I had to raise my voice and get kinda mean even.

Today was ULTRA boring. We had nothing going on in the library today. It was kind of nice. Tomorrow I have to help with Terra Nova a little bit. I have to go relieve one of the teachers while the students are testing so he can just take a little break. Basically I just have to make sure students are taking the test: no cheating, no talking, no cell phones, etc.

Tomorrow evening, Jenna and I are leaving for a three-day weekend in Italy! I am so excited. Both of our teachers said it was okay if we miss Friday at school. We're taking a bus tour that departs at 6 p.m. We'll mainly be in Venice with two smaller trips to Florence and Bologna. I am just so excited. Rain is predicted some, but oh well. I can't really help it. It'll be a good weekend.