grading.

So my whole life I have never understood what is so terrible about grading. To be honest, I thought grading tests sounded like fun. I'm pretty sure I offered to grade a teacher's papers for her once. My offer was obviously turned down, but as you can tell, it never seemed like a terrible activity to me. Well, this naive opinion of mine has been obliterated. Yes I know, strong word. Giving a test to 150 students and promising to return it by Wednesday was not so smart. So I have a question for all of you teachers reading this blog. HOW DO YOU DO IT?! Like seriously, are there any techniques on how to make grading less boring than it is? Reading the same thing over and over and over again gets old REALLY quickly. I have 60 graded so far, which has taken me 3 hours. If any teachers have any advice, send me an email I would love to hear from you! I'm also just curious about how many of you are actually reading this thing.
Ok none of this is actually very interesting, but the good news is a lot of my students are doing really well so far!!! I have at least 10 100%'s and I've gotten some really good answers. After 5 weeks of teaching, it's so exciting for me to see that at least some of my students are actually paying attention and understand what I've been saying. AND they studied! To be honest, I was a little skeptical.
I can't bear not attaching a picture, because I'm slightly convinced there are a couple people who just look at the pictures. (No harm there, I would probably do the same thing.)
So, here is a picture of me and little Greg, the little rascal who lost my watch, who is still one of my favorite people in the world. I spent Sunday morning with him rolling a tire back and forth and building rock structures, both of which are underrated pastimes.