Who likes taking tests?

While helping teach with Kindergarten, I never really seemed to notice assessment strategies until this unit in our class. Thinking of the Summative, Formative, and Authentic assessments, I see several different methods of authentic assessments in our classroom. I never really thought that the book reports, journal entries, or projects were a form of assessment, but it is a very smart method. In our classroom we have been working on letters, and small, simple words. A form of assessment we have used in our classroom is our classroom mailbox. Every week when we work on new words, we have the students write a letter once a week to another student in our class, and put them in a mailbox in our classroom. In a way, this is Authentic and Formative, because it is a creative form of testing, but it is also continuous throughout the school year.
When I was in grade school, the assessments that worked best for me were the ones that I looked forward to working on. Having a creative poster, diorama, video/short film, or even filling a basket full of representative/symbolic items. These can be the most fun assignments for the students, because they get to put their own creative spin on their assessment project. I have testing anxiety whenever I have an exam, and forget what I am doing once the packet is in front of me. I know I am not alone in this, so when there are authentic assessments like these that are given, I am excited to show what I have learned. This is what I want in my own classroom, I don't want students scared for exams, or boring projects, I want my students excited to show what we learned together.