Thursday at Westwood the Kindergarten teachers were doing an Easter Egg Hunt for the students. The activity was supposed to take place at 1:00 but the plans changed unexpectedly last minute. When I walked in the classroom around 8, the teacher was frantic and obviously stressing. The Easter egg hunt was moved from 1pm to 9am, meaning she only had an hour or so to get everything together. Kids were told to bring baskets and eggs filled with candy but a majority of them didn't bring their baskets and would feel left out if they couldn't carry their eggs. So online we found a cut out of a bunny that could be made into an Easter basket, made out of construction paper. While the teacher was trying to keep the students busy, I was tracing the cut out and folding the paper and stapling their baskets. I had to quickly make 18 baskets and in an effort to keep the kids busy, when I would finish one basket I would give it to a student to color and decorate and that way the teacher could help me instead of trying to keep the students busy. After a stressful hour and a half we finished everything and the kids lined up for their Easter activity.
Another type of assessment used in Kindergarten is when the kids first get there in the morning they choose one person to do the calender. They change the date and count the number of days left of school. This is another way of testing all the students on a daily bases, whether than taking a test on the days of the week and counting.
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