"It was a third grade test, Mom.  And it was hard."

I went to pick her up today because Go-Go had book club after school.  I asked the Little One about the test.  "It wasn't a third grade test.  But I forget what it's called."

When we got home I found the test in her folder - Third Quarter Test.  And for someone who told her mother it was hard, she got a 95% only one question wrong, borrowing in subtraction.  I'm always catching those mistakes in her homework too.  She doesn't borrow and reverses the numbers instead, subtracting the smaller number from the bigger one.

I took the test out and said,  This was the hard test?  And you got a 95%.  She insists she guessed on a lot of them, but you have to show your work, and everything was in order.  She needs to give herself more credit.