1st grade homework blues!!! LONG
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b ...@news.olagrande.net (Barbara MacRae)
That does sound like a lot. How long is his school day? My daughter is in 1st grade too, in a private school in No. California. She is in school from 8:15 to 3:00, the same hours she had in kindergarten there. She brings home spelling words on Monday, which she has to practice each night, and they have a test on them on friday. It's been about 7 or 8 words each week thus far. She also gets one homework ***ignment each night, yesterday it was to cut out a page of letters and make different words out of them, writing each word down. She had to make at least 8 words. Tonight is a book report, she is to read the book and answer some basic questions about it. The teacher said the homework, including practicing the spelling words, should take 20 minutes to 1/2 hour each night, which seems about right.
I have a couple of friends whose first graders get a lot more homework that Olivia does, but their kids are in school from 8:45 til 2:15, so I wonder if the teachers are trying to get the same amount of work in, but don't have as much school time to do it in?
I don't know. I'm glad Liv has homework, but I don't think we could handle any more than what she's getting, we have such a heavy extra-curricular schedule.
Well, I'm off to supervise Liv's book report. Whee! %^)
-Barb, mama to Olivia, 6, & Ruby, 2
jenni ...@aol.com (JenniRoa)
Risa, Honestly, it doesn't sound like that much to me. I worked for 5 years in a private school in the first grade cl***room and those kids did about the same if not more homework. Jenni
beeswing Beesw...@aol.com
Try it the way it is at hour house. At 5 a.m., my husband gets up so that he can get ready himself before having to wake The Kid. He wakes The Kid up around 6 a.m.; sometimes he has to pour her into her clothes because she's still half asleep. She then eats breakfast and, if there is any time left, watches a few minutes of television. Around 7, my husband drops her off at the before- and after-school childcare (which is colocated with the school).
She stays there until almost 9 a.m., when it's time to line up for school. School ends at 3:10 p.m., where she returns to the childcare. At 5 p.m., I pick her up on my way home. Emma likes to watch a half-hour of Arthur; I think it helps her with the transition between school and home. Then, between 5:30 and 6:00 (best case), we eat dinner.
At 7 p.m. on a "bath night" or 7:30 p.m. on a regular night, we start getting my daughter ready for bed. Then mama and daddy read her one story each, and it's bedtime.
That's not including trying to squeeze in a trip to the grocery store or pharmacy from time to time.
My daughter is in kindergarten, and my only complaint about the occasional homework she has is that it's too easy -- it takes literally seconds to do. But I can see how the schedule we're on could make it hard to find time *at home* for both work and play. There's a homework club after school, so maybe she'd be able to do it there. However, if she was left to do it on her own time (and if it was as much homework as the original poster said), she would find it hard to complete the work without staying up later at night (NOT a good thing) -- and she wouldn't get any time to herself at all. And everyone needs a little time to him or herself, kids included.
pavanne
mhai ...@oshconsulting.com (Michelle Haines)
Crockpot recipes are good for planning ahead, too. Fix up the ingrediants the night before and put them in the refrigerator. In the morning, before you leave, put the crockpot on a timer (you can get them at a hardware store), throw the ingrediants in the crockpot, and when you get home, dinner's cooked.
Michelle Flutist
"michelle and chris" cthompso...@home.com
Ok, let me get this straight...you think more than making a bed and setting a table is too much chores for a six year old to do. BUT, after having been in school all day, an hour or two of homework is nothing to worry about?? I don't understand this logic at all!!
Michelle mom to Matthew(06/25/93) and Ryan(05/04/00)
"michelle and chris" cthompso...@home.com
I find in MY case, homework does help my son(2nd grader). He is a very active, distractable kid that has trouble staying focused and concentrating in school. I keep in very close contact with his teacher and his learning resource teacher. He is very smart when he puts his mind to it...it's just getting him to sit still long enough to write, draw or what have you. I find that his homework is a great time for me to reinforce lessons that have been taught in school that day. The one on one is way easier for him to 'clue in' to how to do something, than when he's in cl***. I know everyone's situation is different, and I really like the homework schedule the teacher has worked out with me.
Michelle mom to Matthew(06/25/93) and Ryan(05/04/00)
"Elaine Gallant" elaine.gall...@worldnet.att.net
I like you personally, but there's something that always bugged me about teachers. It's like they think they own kids and their time. . All the time. Time at home, time on week-ends. Sometimes, People have a right to their own time. It's wrong for someone else to spend it or accounting it's use.
You teachers have kids all day. Don't start complaining 'cause kids get recess or lunch breaks.
I could never figure out how you teachers made learning such a bitch. Who's idea was it to start school so early in the day? I always had to get up, hours before I was ready. So sleepy in the morning. Then, in bed long before I was sleepy.
People just want you teachers to teach us to read and write. It doesn't have to turn into Russian opera.
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"Elaine Gallant" elaine.gall...@worldnet.att.net
My school started at 8, but I had to be up by 6:30 to get there. Yes, it got out at 3:00, but we got home around 4:00.
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