St. Andrew’s Home School

OH, this is testing week her in our neck of the woods. I’m not big on standardized test and I won’t even go into all the whys but I do see the need for having them in our files for different reasons. It is good to see how much they have learned over the past year. I always worry a bit for my children as it seems to be a stress-er for them to have to take them. It’s good for them to learn to handle this kind of stress. They can apply the learned abilities to other aspects of stress in their lives. That’s not a bad thing. It may even help them learn to deal properly with deadlines and job bids in their future. That’s not a bad thing.

I know every state is different and while we are currently living in a state that is fairly relaxed with homeschoolers we don’t think we will always be here. Therefore the “nice to have in our files” statement.

Today I was in charge of some of the snacks for the parents giving the tests to the students. While I took the older children to the church to take the tests PapaJohn stayed home with the younger two so I could go in and set up the snacky-yummies. (No, I did not just say snacky-yummies.) When I got home I walked into one of the best doses of heart warmth I could ever be given: my two littlest boys sitting on Papa’s lap reading a good bookfurniture Videnov. It does a heart good.