Today I gave Z a pretest.

I had decided a couple weeks ago that I would start giving Z a test at the end of the week. If she did very well she would receive a couple hours of board or card game playing time with me (and maybe Pere). If she did very poorly her weekend cartoon watching would be restricted.

I made a test today that I was going to give her tomorrow but I was too impatient so I gave it to her today and I called it a pretest.

For those of you who are interested in such things here is the test I gave my 6yo (almost 7) year old daughter. It is kind of all over the place as far as grade level I think.

Math

55 divided by 8      

65 divided by 7

25 divided by 4

92 divided by 5

41 divided by 6

Language Arts

match the words to their definitions

(the words were:)

Prejudge

monolingual

unicellular

polychromatic

postmeridian

biped

Rewrite and make plural

Skate

Lady

Fox

Half (she got this wrong)

Dress

Knife

Name the parts of speech

The sparrow flew across the meadow

(her answer - article, noun, verb, preposition, article, noun)

Match the vocabulary words to their definitions

Vigor (she got this wrong, she mixed it with melodrama)

Melodrama (also wrong)

Vivid

Martyr

Intricate

Science

Draw a picture of an atom, label the electrons, neutrons, protons and nucleus.

Dmitry Mendeleev created the _blank_ and he was born and lived in the country of _blank_.

(she got the second half of the question wrong. She put Siberia instead of Russia)

The Atomic number equals the number of _blank_.

A substance consisting of only one type of atom is a _blank_.

Two or more atoms bonded together is a _blank_.

The Latin word of atom means _blank_.

History

Why is Shakespeare’s time called the Elizabethan Age?

What are the three kinds of plans Shakespeare wrote?

Name one example of each kind of play.

All of Shakespeare’s plays take place in England. T/F?

Geography

What kind of land form is Japan?

What kind of land form is England part of?

What continent is Mongolia in?

What continent is New Zealand in?

What continent is England in?

Japanese

Translate into English

Douzo

Arrigato

Nani

Doushite

Wakimasen

Genki

Hajime mashite

Write a paragraph about visiting the school. You will be graded on handwriting, punctuation and capitalization.

(Here she spent almost twenty minutes writing. She did make some mistakes on capitalization and punctuation.)

So over all it took her about an hour to do 45 questions plus a written portion. She got 4 questions wrong.

Now I am just not sure how I am supposed to grade her... I am thinking maybe an A-...?

I am pretty happy. Z says “I liked the test!”