I know “Crunch Time” sounds like a new type of exercise, but it’s actually an endearing term we use in my school to describe what goes on in our classrooms the few weeks before our big state test known as the infamous FCAT. You see on April 15th students in the state of Florida begin taking high stakes testing; and for my little 3rd graders this means A LOT! For these 8-9 year olds, this test determines whether a student moves on to fourth grade or has to repeat the year. (Yes, there is a…