Re: How much homework does your kid get?
 

Luckily, only kindergartener to deal with and she got a sheet every Monday to be handed in on Friday, dealing with the letter of the week plus a couple words.

Consisted of tracing a few words, writing a couple sentences and drawing a couple pics.

I had her do it during snack when she got back from school to get it out of the way, but even then, it was more parents homework for a while, but she's finished the alphabet now so they aren't doing homework.

I've seen what some of the first/second graders get and I'm shuddering at the thought already :o

Re: How much homework does your kid get?
 

It doesn't get any easier Bob, make the most of it while you can.

Faith has been restored slightly tonight, she has to do a project on one of her hobbies, and write about it from the time her Dad was 12. She couldn't find anything significant, so researched famous climbers from the 70s, found their websites and sent an email to the only contact she could find. She sent a very lovely email asking for help. The first I knew about it was when she got an equally nice email back from a 70 year old climber, who did some remarkable things and invented some equipment that is still used today. He also wrote books on best backpacking techniques. Impressed with her efforts for once, and she's rather chuffed to have an email from a new hero.

Now all she has to do is hand the bloody work in

Re: How much homework does your kid get?
 

It sounds as if she's coping well.

Re: How much homework does your kid get?
 

I've a boy in first grade who gets around an hour a night of homework Monday thru Thursday. His brother will be going in next school year

I know its not much but still seems like a lot for a 6yr old. Plus as other have mentioned he also has sports twice a week so we don't get back until after 8pm - and we all still have to cook, eat, do homework and whatever else. Plus to make things more difficult - the sports we signed up for were to be held at the local school 5 minutes away but for some reason they got moved after the first week to a park on the other side of town which is now a 20 minute drive through some great traffic.

Back in the day in the UK i didn't get homework until secondary school. Sports and soccer practice were in the schoolyard, at lunchtime..My 6 year old has the same amount of homework I had when I was 13/14. Good job he loves it and is quite studious.

Re: How much homework does your kid get?
 

4th grader daughter is expected to do 15 mins a day of math facts (we cover this off in the car, chanting tables and doing a pop quiz) and 15 mins of reading (I consider this an average; sometimes she reads for an hour, sometimes not at all). Her teacher is one of those excellent 'homework is mostly what they don't get done in class because they drifted off task' types, so we don't get hours of pointless photocopied worksheet busy work; perhaps once or twice a week she might have 15 mins to finish up.

That's the day-to-day stuff - on top, there've been 8 book reports to read and prepare (oral presentation with diorama, comic strip or some such), a weekly Current Event sheet to fill in and tell the class about, the odd leaflet or poster about X or Y. It can't have been too arduous, as I loathe most homework with a deep passion and it hasn't annoyed me too much this year at all.

8th grader son is a time management, multi-tasking genius, and appears to get most of his done in 5 minute chunks of spare time in other lessons, whilst chatting to his friends (the parent portal shows me that yes, he IS doing it, and getting good grades - it's startling but pleasing). A typical day will be 'I had a math worksheet but have finished it all bar the last two questions and I'll do those tomorrow in the library before school, and I had to write 7 poems and make a booklet for Social Studies but I did 5 in Science after I'd finished my lab write-up, so I just need to knock off two more and staple them together; I'll draw a cover in Tech tomorrow morning after I've finished revising my English Latin and Greek root words for the vocab test after lunch'.

He gets longer projects too with more open-ended timescales - book reports, make a timeline of presidents, essays on X, find current news events and compare/ contrast them with an event from history, that sort of thing. But overall, it's no more than perhaps two hours a week out of school time, tops. He only tends to do things at home that need typing up, or researching online.

High school might be a shock to him come August. But who knows, the trend might continue!