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Anonymous wrote:The take home 2nd grade handout wants the parent to discuss early Asian civilizations and Buddhism and Hinduism. ?? Sure, after I spend 45 minutes reviewing the spelling list and doing a 2 sided Eureka math worksheet every night.

Sorry if you’re not able to be an engaged parent. I’m thrilled to see my kid has actual homework and is doing actual fundamental study of things. I’ve been worried about her spelling for years and was told not to worry about it. So so grateful to have to be an explicit focus now.

And my kid is thrilled to learn cursive, too.

I am an engaged parent but after a full day of school it is too much homework.

Then don’t do it and let you le kid get the appropriate grade as such. It shouldn’t take 45 mins to do a back and front math worksheet and review spelling words. And you can discuss the civilizations over dinner or bathtime, or heaven forbid as part of reading time.

+1. My 3rd grader takes 20 minutes at most to finish both the math and reading homework. If it really is taking your kid that long to get through I would look into a tutor. It’s only going to get harder

It is taking that long with a parent helping.

Why would it take longer than that without a parent helping. Spelling words means a review over the phonics and then the word list. It's like 1 minutes per word if that. The recommendation on homework is 10-15mins per grade level starting with 1st. So 3rd grade the expectation would be 30-45mins. If its taking longer than that, you should be speaking with your teachers so you all can work together to understand why.

I have spoken with the teacher. They don't offer any extra help for math at school for kids who may not understanda strategy, only for reading, so it forces the parents to spend extra time or hire someone to help.

Is it only "a" strategy, as in one strategy that you child is struggling with upon the many others? If so then it's on the teacher to help them understand. If you DC is struggling with math generally then yes there can be and should be help. If the teacher is indicating nothing can be done, reach out to the Counselor, Principal. If they claim the same reach out to the ES Math team in Central Office.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid brought home a spelling test today. An actual spelling test. Hurrah!! I’m thrilled they’re finally getting explicit focus on this

I'm a teacher who is not impressed with the spelling. I've been teaching 20 years and it's never been a best practice to give all students the same 15 spelling words. I have always differentiated the spelling lists with a focus on patterns that specific students need to master.

Well, my kids went through MCPS and never had spelling. What an improvement to have any spelling.

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I'm not sure why you would think this is BS. There was no spelling in MCPS for my kids.

Which schools?

If your school or teacher was teaching spelling, it was outside of the Benchmark curriculum. Last year my DS' 2nd grade teacher DID send home a short list of spelling words each week, but talking to the other parents that was not universal, only one other 2nd grade teacher at the school was doing this.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing from Amplify has come home with our kid or anyone in the grade... no homework or parent letters... what are we missing??

Do you have a kid in ES? (It is only used in ES.)

We get a letter about once a week about what they are learning and what activities we can do to reinforce what they are learning in school. Kid also is able to log into Amplify through Clever and is able to play phonics games, review stories, etc. This if for early elementary -- it likely looks different for later elementary.

Yes- I have a 2nd grade kid. Whitman cluster. Nothing coming home.

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Anonymous wrote:The take home 2nd grade handout wants the parent to discuss early Asian civilizations and Buddhism and Hinduism. ?? Sure, after I spend 45 minutes reviewing the spelling list and doing a 2 sided Eureka math worksheet every night.

Sorry if you’re not able to be an engaged parent. I’m thrilled to see my kid has actual homework and is doing actual fundamental study of things. I’ve been worried about her spelling for years and was told not to worry about it. So so grateful to have to be an explicit focus now.

And my kid is thrilled to learn cursive, too.

I am an engaged parent but after a full day of school it is too much homework.

Then don’t do it and let you le kid get the appropriate grade as such. It shouldn’t take 45 mins to do a back and front math worksheet and review spelling words. And you can discuss the civilizations over dinner or bathtime, or heaven forbid as part of reading time.

+1. My 3rd grader takes 20 minutes at most to finish both the math and reading homework. If it really is taking your kid that long to get through I would look into a tutor. It’s only going to get harder

It is taking that long with a parent helping.

Why would it take longer than that without a parent helping. Spelling words means a review over the phonics and then the word list. It's like 1 minutes per word if that. The recommendation on homework is 10-15mins per grade level starting with 1st. So 3rd grade the expectation would be 30-45mins. If its taking longer than that, you should be speaking with your teachers so you all can work together to understand why.

I have spoken with the teacher. They don't offer any extra help for math at school for kids who may not understanda strategy, only for reading, so it forces the parents to spend extra time or hire someone to help.

If your child is struggling with math or ELA, and your teacher is saying they won’t help, then you need to request a meeting with the principal.

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There is a Caregiver Hub you can access on Amplify that will provide you with access to the parent letters. Our reading specialist has us send them home.

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Anonymous wrote:My first grader came home the first or second week and told me about the story of the day. It was about a girl milking cows to earn money. I asked why she wanted to earn the money. Apparently it was so she could buy a beautiful dress that would make the other girls jealous and get a boy’s attention.
I didn’t want to email the teacher to confirm as it seems like small potatoes the first month of school. But I will definitely find a way to ask about it at some point this year.

Same impression, the works selected were insanely stupid. I don’t like this curriculum, and I have a 3rd grader.

DCUM gonna DCUM!

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Anonymous wrote:My first grader came home the first or second week and told me about the story of the day. It was about a girl milking cows to earn money. I asked why she wanted to earn the money. Apparently it was so she could buy a beautiful dress that would make the other girls jealous and get a boy’s attention.
I didn’t want to email the teacher to confirm as it seems like small potatoes the first month of school. But I will definitely find a way to ask about it at some point this year.

Same impression, the works selected were insanely stupid. I don’t like this curriculum, and I have a 3rd grader.

Third graders read The Wind in the Willows. It might not be your cup of tea, but it's not "insanely stupid."

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Anonymous wrote:My kid brought home a spelling test today. An actual spelling test. Hurrah!! I’m thrilled they’re finally getting explicit focus on this

I'm a teacher who is not impressed with the spelling. I've been teaching 20 years and it's never been a best practice to give all students the same 15 spelling words. I have always differentiated the spelling lists with a focus on patterns that specific students need to master.

Well, my kids went through MCPS and never had spelling. What an improvement to have any spelling.

BS

I'm not sure why you would think this is BS. There was no spelling in MCPS for my kids.

Which schools?

If your school or teacher was teaching spelling, it was outside of the Benchmark curriculum. Last year my DS' 2nd grade teacher DID send home a short list of spelling words each week, but talking to the other parents that was not universal, only one other 2nd grade teacher at the school was doing this.

Have they not been teaching Spelling AT ALL or has it just not looked like sending home spelling list? Because if they’ve been doing absolutely no word study (ie. word families, vocabulary, prefixes, suffixes, etc) then yeah that’s a problem.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a Caregiver Hub you can access on Amplify that will provide you with access to the parent letters. Our reading specialist has us send them home.

Thank goodness. Like how do folks expect families to engage if they don’t know what is going on. At the very least do a weekly newsletter annout what is being covered in school and list the link or unit that families can look at in the Caregiver hub for additional support/practice.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid brought home a spelling test today. An actual spelling test. Hurrah!! I’m thrilled they’re finally getting explicit focus on this

I'm a teacher who is not impressed with the spelling. I've been teaching 20 years and it's never been a best practice to give all students the same 15 spelling words. I have always differentiated the spelling lists with a focus on patterns that specific students need to master.

Well, my kids went through MCPS and never had spelling. What an improvement to have any spelling.

BS

I'm not sure why you would think this is BS. There was no spelling in MCPS for my kids.

Which schools?

If your school or teacher was teaching spelling, it was outside of the Benchmark curriculum. Last year my DS' 2nd grade teacher DID send home a short list of spelling words each week, but talking to the other parents that was not universal, only one other 2nd grade teacher at the school was doing this.

Have they not been teaching Spelling AT ALL or has it just not looked like sending home spelling list? Because if they’ve been doing absolutely no word study (ie. word families, vocabulary, prefixes, suffixes, etc) then yeah that’s a problem.

There has always been spellings, even in C2.0

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Anonymous wrote:My kid brought home a spelling test today. An actual spelling test. Hurrah!! I’m thrilled they’re finally getting explicit focus on this

I'm a teacher who is not impressed with the spelling. I've been teaching 20 years and it's never been a best practice to give all students the same 15 spelling words. I have always differentiated the spelling lists with a focus on patterns that specific students need to master.

Well, my kids went through MCPS and never had spelling. What an improvement to have any spelling.

BS

I'm not sure why you would think this is BS. There was no spelling in MCPS for my kids.

Which schools?

If your school or teacher was teaching spelling, it was outside of the Benchmark curriculum. Last year my DS' 2nd grade teacher DID send home a short list of spelling words each week, but talking to the other parents that was not universal, only one other 2nd grade teacher at the school was doing this.

Have they not been teaching Spelling AT ALL or has it just not looked like sending home spelling list? Because if they’ve been doing absolutely no word study (ie. word families, vocabulary, prefixes, suffixes, etc) then yeah that’s a problem.

There has always been spellings, even in C2.0

I have a 5th grader. The only year she got spelling quizzes was 4th, so far. I have taken over and am doing my own spelling curriculum with her. She can't even spell many basic words.

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I just went on the Clever-Amplify hub. Is there a place where the section texts are listed? I'd like to check out the books and texts my 1st grader is reading.

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Anonymous wrote:I just went on the Clever-Amplify hub. Is there a place where the section texts are listed? I'd like to check out the books and texts my 1st grader is reading.

I don't know about Clever, but the entire curriculum is available for free online. This is the current first grade unit: https://www.coreknowledge.org/free-resource/ckla-domain-02-human-body/

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Anonymous wrote:I just went on the Clever-Amplify hub. Is there a place where the section texts are listed? I'd like to check out the books and texts my 1st grader is reading.

I don't know about Clever, but the entire curriculum is available for free online. This is the current first grade unit: https://www.coreknowledge.org/free-resource/ckla-domain-02-human-body/

You are awesome, thank you!

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Is cursive part of CLKA?