For the past five years I have been doing the same boring beginning of the year assessments... fill in a blank 100's chart, some patterning activities, fact fluency assessments...and really, I do not learn a whole lot about my students from these assessments. I thought now would be the perfect time to create a new assessment to go along with the new CCSS for math! I took the I can statements (in previous post) and turned each statement into an assessment question. So my beginning of 2nd…