The difference between second grade and third grade is huge. Since school began three weeks ago, I feel like we have done nothing but homework. Ethan crumples in a ball and groans at having to read every night, but he's got it good. Poor Cameron. Cameron's after school schedule has been as follows:
3:45 arrive home, eat snack, tell Mom about your day
4:00 start math homework
4:20 read for 20 minutes
4:40 practice math facts drills
4:50 keyboarding homework
5:00 speech homework
5:10 practice spelling words while doing chores
5:30 finish chores, play for an hour
6:30 dinner
7:00 shower, clean up room, set clothes and backpack out for morning
7:45 snack, then brush teeth
8:00 read with Mom for half an hour, lights out at 8:30
Quite often, the homework takes longer than planned, and play time is cut down to half an hour. The kid needs a lot of sleep, so staying up later is not an option. So what is a mom to do? If/when he has Aikido or baseball, there will be no way to get all this done! I suppose we could start doing homework in the morning, but, sheesh! Should that be neccessary?? Is this normal?
4 comments:
THIS WILL ONLY GET WORSE!!! I promise. have u read my blog recently?
This is why I said I was dreading school starting again! I feel like my, oh I mean their, homework is never done! And when you have one like Ben who comes home with his homework plus all the work he was supposed to do in class but didn't bother, then it really isn't ever done.
I have no idea if it's normal - I have a couple years before this is consuming my life, but I just wanted to give you some sympathy. :)
I am one of those parents that some teachers hate. I believe that being a kid is too short. School has them for seven hours. Unless my kids are struggling in a subject I leave the option of homework up to them. My kids have chores as well and they don't get home until 4:00 and are to be in bed by 7:00, so that doesn't give them much time to be a kid.
That being said both Dallin and Hunter struggled their first year in middle school trying to get used to homework but I figure they have 3 years to figure it out before High School. Dallin is in advanced classes and Hunter pulled his F's to A's and B's by the end of the year. So that's my theory. Who knows it could be totally wrong and I could be ruining them but for now I'm sticking to it.
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