Testing, Yikes!

I started testing the 2 big boys on Tuesday, the standardized test that kids take in public school to see how they measure up. Georgia law requires that you do it for 3rd grade, so I'm testing Evan in the 3rd because if he started kindergarten at age 5 he would have been in 3rd grade, also we are doing 3rd grade math. In everything but math and reading he probably is more like a 2nd grader but we shall see how he does, so far he has done pretty well on the first 3 parts of the test with the exception of punctuation and caps. We have only skimmed over some of that so he didn't always know what words have what punctuation and what words are always capitalized. I am testing Austin in the 4th grade because I missed his 3rd grade testing and I don't want to be to far off in my testing in case I ever get audited. Tonya was going to do it for me last year but then decided to move to Alabama. (thanks a lot!) Also I didn't start either of the boys until they were 6 so 4th grade is where Austin could be. He is above that is some areas so my hope for the testing is that Austin scores very high in the 4th grade since he technically could be in 5th grade this year if we had started when he was 5. My goal for Evan isn't as high, if he scores mediocre in 3rd grade that will be okay since he could really still be in 2nd grade. I am doing the CAT test and I got it through Seton, they offer testing to homeschoolers. I will send in the test and they will score them and let me know how they did. The CAT is the only test in Ga that a parent can give without having a certified teacher administer it, and through Seton it only is costing $25 a kid. After they are done I am going to grade them just to see how many they missed. That won't tell me how they compare to other kids, but it will give me an idea when I get the results back.

In dinner news, we had enough of the chicken Alfredo to eat again Monday night. Tuesday's dinner was fend for yourself because I had a meeting at 6pm and I had been testing all afternoon. Someone finished off the last of the chili, someone scrambled some eggs, and someone else finished off the Alfredo. Austin had a fever again so he ate a piece of toast with cheese. I think he has a sinus infection and is not actually sick again, they all still have gunk that they keep coughing up and sniffling over.