Poll: How much homework does your K student get?

[Anonymous]

We're at DCPS. In our K class, we two batches of assignments per week, each consisting of 6-7 pages of worksheets, all with multiple steps (color the picture, circle the letter, then write X, etc). This translates to around 20-25 minutes per night if we do it all (we don't).

You?

[Anonymous]

DCPS here; essentially none yet. Our older child, who was in same school 2 years ago, maybe had 5-10 minutes.

[Anonymous]

We are in Fairfax County... so far she has to "read" a book each night, and she has sight word that she needs to practice and is quizzed on them once a week.

[Anonymous]

Holy cow! That seems like a lot.
last year my son was in a private school for K, and they didn't have homework at all.
This year, son is in public first, and he is supposed to read for 20 minutes every night. He also gets a list of sight words and spelling words each week. He doesn't have any specific homework associated with that, but he has to know them by the end of the week. The teacher sent home a list of suggested activities for those words at the beginning of the year, and said we should do whatever of the suggested activities we feel would best help our child learn the words. And 2 or 3 times a week he gets a one page math worksheet.
So far, other than reading, I can't think of a night that we've spent more than 10 minutes on homework, and many nights we haven't done anything at all.

[Anonymous]

Loudoun County- so far, none, and we've been told that if anything does come home, it's entirely optional.

[Anonymous]

Beats me - my kid plays after school. I'm not having them do homework in kindergarten. I make sure they can follow multi-step directions, read, add and subtract two-digit numbers, etc. But they don't learn that through worksheets if they're my kids.

[Anonymous]

FCPS, totally optional monthly activities that we do together. ("Make up a story and tell it to your family")

Definitely under 5 min/a night if that. And optional, which is good.

[Anonymous]

DC public charter. No homework in K. A few optional worksheets related to classroom math curriculum have come home and there's a weekend "journal" activity each kid does once or twice during the year.

[Anonymous]

Montessori K: No homework, apart from the occasional "book" that comes home. Honestly, I would like to see books coming home more often, but it's a small quibble. They do wonderfully advanced math in class, and that makes me happy.

[Anonymous]

FCPS: A couple worksheets to color, a letter to think of words that start with it, and reading/being read to.

[Anonymous]

We're supposed to read to our child every night, like we normally do. Child is in a high performing DCPS school.

[Anonymous]

DCPS. 10 minutes of reading every night, which I don't count because I would do it anyway. 4-5 worksheets to do over the course of the week that take, combined, maybe 10 minutes. I don't care if DC does it -- playing and playdates and family activities come first. But homework comes before minecraft time.

[Anonymous]

We got the books sent home to read at night. In January there was an optional packet of hw to do.

[Anonymous]

DCPS K.

So far this year we have had one activity to do over the course of a week.

I think we got a couple of worksheets with little "get to know you" activities in the first two weeks.

We had more homework last year in preK, actually.

I don't make my kid do homework unless it's a project that feeds into what they do in class.

[Anonymous]

Two kids in K with two different teachers ACPS. One child has had maybe one worksheet per week and a small craft (make a family tree). The other has had multiple worksheets each week, math and reading, in addition to the family tree project.

I was surprised that there was no standard even in between teachers at the same school!