Milestone: Francine’s First Ever Quiz

Written on Francine’s Assignment notebook yesterday was:

Science – Study pp. 8-12. Quiz tomorrow.

And I was like, OMG, seriously?! 😮 I mean, I have complete and utter faith in the grey matter inside Francine’s hard little head, but it still gave me the jitters worrying if she’ll do well or even follow instructions in the first place.

And so after doing her other written homework, I proceeded to review her about the Science topic. It was gender identification, if you’re wondering. Basically, the challenge was to classify the drawings/things as a boy’s or a girl’s. Her answers to my impromptu oral quiz were mostly correct so I was able to breathe a little easier. Then all that’s left was hoping she’d correctly draw the markings required during the quiz itself.

I kept psyching her about the quiz this morning, all the while praying she’ll do well. It was her first ever quiz after all. A milestone, if nothing else. So you can imagine my excitement when I saw this among her things after class:

Just a little background info: some of their books and notebooks are left in their respective shoeboxes in the classroom. Usually, they take home only those they need to study or write/draw their homework on. This is (obviously) the first time the Test notebook made an appearance, presumably to show to the Mommies and Daddies how their darling li’l ones fared in the quiz.

And now, the verdict on Francine’s first ever quiz in school:

I am one friggin’ proud Mommy here! 😀 Okay, so some of the check marks look like drunken versions of themselves. Lol. But I guess it’s the thought that counts since they got counted as correct anyway. Thank you Teacher! 😀

Oh, and by the way, regarding the percentage. A friend griped commented that maybe there was a mistake in the score? After all, isn’t 10/10 equal to 100%? Can’t blame her really, would you expect anything less from a fellow engineer? But I digress. As far as I know they don’t use the percentage per se, but a set range of percentages for equivalent scores, with 96% as the ceiling grade. I remember, the same system was also used back when I was in elementary a long, long time ago though the ceiling grade was a notch lower at 95%. Then again, I went to a different school; maybe they still use that.

Anywho. Despite this piece of very good news, there is no reason to slack off on my Mommy-tutor duties. I made sure her all her homework are done before letting her indulge in watching Frozen (yet again). And that’s about it. Happy Mommy here. 🙂

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