assessments

Its assessment time in Akanksha again!! It’s a time when the entire team is in the centres assessing kids on math language and values.
As usual, this time as well, I’ve come across some wonderful little moments that leave me smiling, laughing, thinking and simply feeling lucky to get the chance to work with children and learning over time to enjoy as well as value it.

So I ask this beautiful girl with big round eyes to give me a word that rhymes with ship…. She thinks… looks up confidently and goes, ‘didi, another ship!!!’ …left me smiling for a long time.

So I’m really pushing myself by scoring math assessments… not my strongest point and certainly not what I live to get up each morning and die to do…
so the question is - name the units of measurement for the following:
height, weight and length…. And I find one bizarre set of answers that makes me stop and think…
unit of measurement:
height – book
weight – sugar
length – clothes
made no sense, till I thought about me as a kid…
my dad used a book to measure my height…
we were always made aware of the fact that too much sweet stuff would make me fat…
and sure I was always pulled up in school for the length of my skirt!!
Wow… how creative… is all I could think…

2 days… 2 stories… with 2 more weeks to go, I’m so excited about what interesting little kids I’m going to me : )