My son is halfway through first grade and it seems like they have a ton of homework for being 6 and 7.
There is a math worksheet every night, plus several times a week they have to write 5 sentences using their spelling words,
And they have two books a night to read.
Plus studying for their weekly spelling test and timed math tests. There spelling words are pretty difficult too, it surprises me.
We are spending almost 2 hours a night doing school stuff in 1st grade. I worry about the higher elementary grades!!.
We are spending almost 2 hours a night doing school stuff in 1st grade. I worry about the higher elementary grades!!.
Is this normal?
YEP!
And it gets even better in the second and third grades. All three (ages 6, 7 and 9) have at least four work sheets, spelling words/sentences and 30 min to an hour of reading (that I am OK with though&hellip
For our spelling words, the seven year old has to draw a picture of her spelling words. How does a seven year old draw the words “special” “believe” ”finalist” or “acknowledged”? Even better is when the nine year old in doing algebra! And his word problems confuse me sometimes!
And my kids don't draw pictures of their spelling words.
Hahaha! That is only Tuesday night's spelling work.
I agree about the homeschool. I am 100% for it. But step-moms only get so much pull when the bio-mom is a teacher... And what goes for one goes for all. We would have total anarchy otherwise. I got them for pre-school (I used a modified version of this curriculum http://www.exceednow.com/ ) the governator gets them from then on... I just make sure we supplement with http://www.k12.com/ especially in the summers and and Spanish through http://www.powerspeak.com/ with a tutor for more personalized help.
That workload sounds similar to what I can remember of school. Maybe a little more, but close.
The idea of Koen bringing homework for me to help him on use scare me.
I'm not going to be able to remember ANYTHING. Now I'm kinda excited because this will be another chance for me to freshen up and probably learn things that I took for granted in high school.
I work with my hands and eyeballs for a living, and like to build on my truck on the weekends. Knowing geometry and algebra would get rid of a lot of the headache with trial and error.
Michael, watching your video of your little boy made me a little sad, Tyler is so big and busy and grown up now, half the time I don't know what he is talking about.
I don't remember how much I had in the younger grades, but other than papers I never had that much in high school. But I am also a ridiculously fast reader so it never took me very long to get through assignments.
College was an totally different story, but it is supposed to be.
Right now I am counting Legos, because he has to take a collection of a 100 things for show and tell. (it was either legos or pennies LOL) I wonder sorts of things people will be dragging to school tomorrow.
We forgot that is was a special show and tell day until he was already in bed.
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The public school system utterly failed me. I'm a gifted reader but was kept out of the gifted program because I refused to do my homework. My 3rd and 4th grade teacher allowed me to fall so far behind in math that by the time I got to my 5th grade teacher I was found to be doing math on a barely 2nd grade level. My 5th grade teacher was an absolute saint. When the school wouldn't do anything he asked a college kid to come in and tutor me. The school wouldn't do anything because they figured if I was gifted in reading I was just being lazy with math. If you can homeschool go for it! Seems like you're spending just as much time doing homework with him as you would be doing homeschool at his age anyway. That much homework is ridiculous for a 7 year old. School work at school, play and be a kid at home.
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