Teaching Oops!

This morning the students came in, unpacked, and started right into their morning work. I quickly start to go through homework folders and notice a note on one of the newsletters from last week asking if those were the spelling words. In front of the newsletter was a spelling test on the half sheet of paper, the words didn't match. Initially I was so confused. Then, I looked over at this weeks newsletter and noticed the words on the half sheet matched this weeks list! Holy cow, I gave my class this weeks list last Friday for their test!!! Yes, there is a first time for everything and this one happened during my seventh year teaching. I made a comment about the mistake to the class and they all just acted as if they all knew I had given the wrong list of words. When I asked why no one said anything, one girl said very matter of fact, "You said no talking during the test." While they were in P.E., I had an email from a parent asking if she didn't understand how my newsletter and homework worked. Boy was I embarrassed to reply and explain my mistake. Thursday after work I typed this weeks newsletter. Apparently I never turned the pages back to the correct list, thus giving them the wrong words!!! The class had basically all scored an A or B on the test, so it never set any alarms off that something wasn't right. This week, I expect them to all earn 100% =) Each student went home today with the correct spelling test!!!