Giving my first test

The end of the semester is almost here and that means I will be giving a semester test to all of my 1st-5th grade classes for the first time ever. The elementary art teachers wrote these tests as a group and the tests cover the information and vocabulary we taught in 1st semester.
Honestly, this is the first time I've EVER given a test. So I'm trying to figure out how to do it and how to prepare the students. I'm planning to have a review day before the test and I plan to make a Jeopardy style game to use for the older students. I am not sure though if that will work for the younger students (like 1st and 2nd), any thoughts or suggestions? Also, should I send home a review sheet? Will elementary kids even look at it? What if a kid is absent on review day? Maybe I need a review sheet for those students.
And what if a kid is absent on test day? Do I ask them to come in during recess or my prep time to make it up? (During my prep time means they would be missing something in their regular class, and during recess sometimes means I miss my lunch so neither one is great.) Or maybe I have one day the last week of the semester where I have all the absent kids come at one time. Or do I not worry about it at all?
Can I have the students trade papers and check each others' when the test is done? Or is that not fair because then their grade isn't private?

In summary I am wondering: What is the best way to review (specifically for younger students) and what if someone is absent? If someone is absent on test day what is the best way to have them make up the test? Should students grade each others' tests?

Handing Back Artwork

Sounds easy right? I don't know why I have trouble remembering to do this!

Some classes I have a few projects from. I remember of course right while they are in line or right after they leave.

I have been better lately.... I have pulled the old artwork out with the stuff they are working on during their 5 minutes of drawing time (I love this time! I don't know how I did without it last year!). But even then I sometimes run out of time.

I don't like to have kids hand it out because the grade is on the back with their names. So that leaves it to me- and with all the questions and management of students I forget more times than not.

One of my goals this year was to get artwork graded and handed back in a timely manner. It is all graded- so I have half of it down! :) I NEED a system! Any suggestions???

Time on Task

As an art teacher I find it challenging to keep kids on task for the entire period. There is a huge range of abilities from students who create high quality work quickly, students who create high quality work slowly, students who create poor quality work quickly and students who create poor quality work slowly. All of these combinations have to do with ability levels as well as motivation to do well. I find myself mostly struggling with the first group: high quality work quickly. I will often have students who are done days before others. I have tried and implemented lots of differents things like overlapping projects, creating ongoing semester projects to fall back on, creating multiple assignments for each project (worksheets, readings, projects, written reflections/evaluation, critiques, journaling, etc.), yet still I struggle. I don't think it is fair to just create more work for those who finish early, and I am completely against using my class time to do other homework. Obviously I suggest revision to those who require it, but I don't always know how to handle it when a student uses their time wisely to complete tasks, and finishes before other. It never seems to create behavior issues either.

Do any of you have suggestions to keeping all students on task all the time?

November Post (Late, I know)

I've had a couple instances in the past few weeks where a student and I haven't seen eye-to-eye and in hindsight I think I let it go to far. 2 times were students who refused to do their work either because they didn't like some aspect of what we were doing or they didn't like art in general. Each time I tried talking with the student about what they didn't like, I tried reasoning with them, nothing would work. Numerous times I would remind them to get started or encourage them again. The students always remained stubborn and upset and unproductive. I got very frustrated and eventually threw my hands up in despair (figuratively speaking). When I thought about the situations later I wondered if I spent too much time trying to convince a stubborn child. The attention I gave them definitely took away from helping the rest of the class. Perhaps I should have tried a few times and then ignored them? But I don't feel comfortable doing that because then it feels like the student wins and gets away with doing nothing. I don't think they should be allowed to sit in class and do nothing (especially when these are students with a habit of acting this way). Should I send them to the office if they refuse to work? I was a long-term sub at a school where they had a list of "bottom line behaviors" that automatically got a student sent to the office and "defiance towards a teacher" was one of those behaviors. I think I would try to work it out with the student myself first, and sometimes they are attention-seekers and ignoring them is the best solution, but at some point if they continue to refuse to work and they are taking a significant amount of time away from helping other students would it be beneficial to send them out of the room? Or is the office reserved for students who misbehave in more disruptive or serious ways?
I am leaning towards the idea that sending them to the office may be the right choice. And in that case I need to work on recognizing those kinds of situations quickly and not letting it go on for too long.
What do other people think? Do you have criteria for what is "office-worthy"?