is there homework in AAP level IV?

[Anonymous]

How much and how long?

[Anonymous]

Teacher and school dependent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher and school dependent.

+1 and grade dependent and how quickly your child works.

My 6th DC has always finished homework in free class time but some of their friends were bringing home hours of homework. This is the first yr DC regularly brings HW home bc they no longer have daily free time in class.

3rd grader has about 15-20 min hw total each week (roughly 5 min daily)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher and school dependent.

+1 and grade dependent and how quickly your child works.

My 6th DC has always finished homework in free class time but some of their friends were bringing home hours of homework. This is the first yr DC regularly brings HW home bc they no longer have daily free time in class.

3rd grader has about 15-20 min hw total each week (roughly 5 min daily)

sounds manageable

[Anonymous]

The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher and school dependent.

+1 and grade dependent and how quickly your child works.

My 6th DC has always finished homework in free class time but some of their friends were bringing home hours of homework. This is the first yr DC regularly brings HW home bc they no longer have daily free time in class.

3rd grader has about 15-20 min hw total each week (roughly 5 min daily)

My kids had maybe 30 minutes per week in 3rd. One has had maybe 20 minutes per week in 4th, the other currently has nothing. In fifth nothing, in sixth only finishing up major assignments.

I actually hate it because my sixth grader is showing the impacts of never having drilled and killed some math topics. She understands all the math she has learned just fine, but she can't do it quickly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

Tell that to my kids Teachers at his base school. He is downstairs doing math and social studies homework. He has about 30 minutes a day in his 6th grade class.

There is no FCPS policy on ES homework, it depends on the school and the Teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

There is no FCPS "no homework" implementation. That may be your school's approach. My 6th grade AAP typically has math and either social studies or a writing project.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

I teach 6th at a LL4. My students gave daily math HW and some long term
LA assignments every few weeks. Homework is allowed at some schools.

[Anonymous]

Outside of project-based learning and multiweek assignments like the PP mentioned on NHD, teachers don't assign homework outside of daily reading. If your child is doing social studies or math "homework" at home, it usually means he or she didn't finish what was done in class and they are finishing it up at home. FCPS adopted a 'no homework' policy many years ago. If your kids have graduated from college (in recent past), you'd likely remember what homework in elementary school used to look like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

Tell that to my kids Teachers at his base school. He is downstairs doing math and social studies homework. He has about 30 minutes a day in his 6th grade class.

There is no FCPS policy on ES homework, it depends on the school and the Teacher.

+1. Sixth grade. Lots of homework coming home—even over weekends sometimes. They read novels, answer 4 pages of essays, complete math sheets, study for big unit tests with digital interactive notebooks to complete, spelling words, vocabulary words, POGPOL presentation, reading comprehension passages and pages of follow up questions for LA and Social Studies, creative writing assignment, and this is all on top of reading 20 minutes each day. We have had HW since 1st grade, too. So, we never heard or experienced a ‘no homework’ policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

Tell that to my kids Teachers at his base school. He is downstairs doing math and social studies homework. He has about 30 minutes a day in his 6th grade class.

There is no FCPS policy on ES homework, it depends on the school and the Teacher.

+1. Sixth grade. Lots of homework coming home—even over weekends sometimes. They read novels, answer 4 pages of essays, complete math sheets, study for big unit tests with digital interactive notebooks to complete, spelling words, vocabulary words, POGPOL presentation, reading comprehension passages and pages of follow up questions for LA and Social Studies, creative writing assignment, and this is all on top of reading 20 minutes each day. We have had HW since 1st grade, too. So, we never heard or experienced a ‘no homework’ policy.

I wish my 6th grader had homework like that. We started homework in 1st and it tapered off in 4th. My kid shows the effects of not having practice on the basics, too. We've had to basically implement our own "homework." Nothing crazy, just math sheets and things like that.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

Tell that to my kids Teachers at his base school. He is downstairs doing math and social studies homework. He has about 30 minutes a day in his 6th grade class.

There is no FCPS policy on ES homework, it depends on the school and the Teacher.

+1. Sixth grade. Lots of homework coming home—even over weekends sometimes. They read novels, answer 4 pages of essays, complete math sheets, study for big unit tests with digital interactive notebooks to complete, spelling words, vocabulary words, POGPOL presentation, reading comprehension passages and pages of follow up questions for LA and Social Studies, creative writing assignment, and this is all on top of reading 20 minutes each day. We have had HW since 1st grade, too. So, we never heard or experienced a ‘no homework’ policy.

This is a kid that isn't finishing the work at school or a kid that is inherently studious. Definitely not the norm and not the norm for FCPS elementary school. Parent in Fairfax would throw a hissy fit if this came home on a regular basis because most kids are booked on sports and other activities to support this level of homework on a recurring basis.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but not a ton in our experience.