How much homework are your kids doing over the summer?
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Anonymous
| My kids are doing no homework over the summer. What is the objective of doing this? |
Anonymous
| My kids have required summer reading and IXL math assignments. |
Anonymous
To avoid learning loss. It’s an issue for my kid who is behind and forgets a lot over summer. For my other kid it’s to teach things that aren’t taught in school, like geography. |
Anonymous
| Rising K and 2nd grader. We got them workbooks where they do as many pages as they want, but for the 2nd grader, we try to do 2 pages of math a day from Eureka and of course 15-30 minutes reading for both of them before bedtime. |
Anonymous
But homework isn’t the only way to learn. Summer is a time to learn different kinds of things like - how to get along with people, sports, crafts, nature, sportsmanship… |
Anonymous
AAP, then AP, then top 25 or Ivy League...then to billionaire land. Are you new here? |
Anonymous
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Rising 1st grader. We aren't forcing anything and no planned worksheets. She has a bridge workbook that she can use whenever she wants to, she likes doing stuff like that on long car rides and airplanes.
We go to the library once a week but that's fun for her. Her reading has actually progressed much faster since summer started and she's been allowed to just read what she wants. She's speeding through the early readers and has started working on some chapter books. We still read to her every night. I did put up a little reminder in her room for telling "b" and "d" apartment because she still struggles with it, but we're not drilling it or anything -- it's just there so that when she's reading on her own, she can consult if it she needs to. For math, we're doing money this year. She started getting an allowance this year, and has started losing teeth and getting money from the tooth fairy. She is learning about saving and investing, and we're showing her how compound interest works in her savings account. Also having her read prices on menus and in stores, and she's figuring out a toy to save up to buy at the end of the summer with some cash she saved. We've also started talking about charity and mentioning different charities she can donate to at the holidays this year -- a portion of her savings will go to that in December. I've also taught her how to play blackjack. So not really homework, but some fun activities for us that are helping her to keep reading, thinking about math, and learning. |
Anonymous
That isn't "none." |
Anonymous
Acceleration in some subjects, prevention of learning loss in others. Why do the "none" people get bent out of shape about other families doing academics over the summer? If all families kept up, we wouldn't have to suffer through a full month of tedious review for the dummies at the beginning of every school year. |
Anonymous
It’s kinda ballsy to call other people’s kids dummies when yours will apparently forget everything they’ve ever learned in 8 weeks if they’re not doing workbooks. |
Anonymous
| Parents who are too lazy to do academics over the summer are also not smart enough to make the connections between time spent on academics and treatment by teachers and classmates. I see it every year, the students who did nothing academic over a 3 month summer break have the hardest time adjusting when the school year starts, spend the first month annoying the teacher and most of the class because they can't get with the program. |
Anonymous
| Books of her choice. She’s doing a math book because that’s her weakness. |
Anonymous
Parents and teachers who generalize and make assumptions about children based on their own biases are less likely to be able to truly create effective connections with their students. |
Anonymous
What kind of math book only takes less than 2 minutes per page? Word problems, division and other skills should take longer than that. |