extra homework at home?

[Anonymous]

Just curious, do you buy a lot of workbooks (such as Brain quest, Leap Frog, etc) and extra educational materials to teach at home with your kids? Or are you just doing the regular homework/reading that is required from the school. Just curious what the norm is?

[Anonymous]

We supplement, but not with workbooks.

My husband and I “play” math with DD by giving her problems to solve on her easel. We also make her “buy” her snacks for a cup of change we keep on the counter. Also, we do our own spelling tests because the school doesn’t do them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious, do you buy a lot of workbooks (such as Brain quest, Leap Frog, etc) and extra educational materials to teach at home with your kids? Or are you just doing the regular homework/reading that is required from the school. Just curious what the norm is?

This is the toddler - preschool forum.

Why are you giving your 3 year old extra homework and workbooks?

Up until around 5 or 6 she should be spending as much time playing as possible, not doing worksheets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just curious, do you buy a lot of workbooks (such as Brain quest, Leap Frog, etc) and extra educational materials to teach at home with your kids? Or are you just doing the regular homework/reading that is required from the school. Just curious what the norm is?

This is the toddler - preschool forum.

Why are you giving your 3 year old extra homework and workbooks?

Up until around 5 or 6 she should be spending as much time playing as possible, not doing worksheets.

This is the general parent forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just curious, do you buy a lot of workbooks (such as Brain quest, Leap Frog, etc) and extra educational materials to teach at home with your kids? Or are you just doing the regular homework/reading that is required from the school. Just curious what the norm is?

This is the toddler - preschool forum.

Why are you giving your 3 year old extra homework and workbooks?

Up until around 5 or 6 she should be spending as much time playing as possible, not doing worksheets.

Not anymore. Now this is general parenting, any age.

[Anonymous]

My son is twice exceptional (gifted with special needs) and worked extensively with me after school to reinforce his strengths and bolster his weaknesses, during his elementary school years. I tried to find the best workbooks (most engaging, least repetitive, etc) every year and finally settled on Singapore Math and the Critical Thinking Company's reading comprehension workbooks.

My daughter does not need that type of enrichment.

[Anonymous]

"Up until around 5 or 6 she should be spending as much time playing as possible, not doing worksheets."

Every child has different ideas of what playing entails.

I totally agree that Mom shouldn't be driving lots of time spent on worksheets but some workbooks should be around in case the child gets interested.

Our DC got most interested with workbooks when she could teach her younger cousin stuff she had already learned.

[Anonymous]

I am the parent of a 4 year old with a learning disability. I do not do workbooks (he wouldn't get them anyway), but I make it a point to do enrichment with him. I have a basket of things he can choose from, to include puzzles, memory matching, handwriting, etc. I think if we didn't work on these things together he would be playing with cars and trucks and construction stuff all the time and never try. I update our basket as he grows out of stuff, so hopefully some workbooks will get in the rotation.

[Anonymous]

No way. Professional educator and I will never, ever make my elementary kids do extra homework. It's not even developmentally appropriate for them to be doing the homework the school sends home, but I make them do that. They read every day, which is the only developmentally appropriate, valuable homework anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way. Professional educator and I will never, ever make my elementary kids do extra homework. It's not even developmentally appropriate for them to be doing the homework the school sends home, but I make them do that. They read every day, which is the only developmentally appropriate, valuable homework anyway.

Here, too.

My DS’s homework (second grade, not in the DC area) is optional, and we usually opt out. DS reads up a storm, writes his own stories, baked with me (reading and math), and just had general chill-out time—which is also very important.

[Anonymous]

I give my children extra math to make sure they stay at least two levels higher than their FCPS grades. I use Singapore math, various fun math books published in my home country (so they get to learn and remember the language as well), and supplement with a lot of free worksheets generated from softschools.com when I find poor understanding of a concept or weakness in a skill.

[Anonymous]

Yes my 7 and 4 year old DC do Singapore Math, Spectrum Reading and Writing, Vocabulary Workshop, and Critical Thinking co logic books. They dont get ANY homework from school. They both are on/near the spectrum so I feel extra pressure to make sure they never fall behind in any subject and stay far ahead in at least one subject.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way. Professional educator and I will never, ever make my elementary kids do extra homework. It's not even developmentally appropriate for them to be doing the homework the school sends home, but I make them do that. They read every day, which is the only developmentally appropriate, valuable homework anyway.

Then you need to go back to school and broaden your research into various student populations.
In education, generalizations will always be wrong.


- Parent of the GT/LD boy who posted earlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I give my children extra math to make sure they stay at least two levels higher than their FCPS grades. I use Singapore math, various fun math books published in my home country (so they get to learn and remember the language as well), and supplement with a lot of free worksheets generated from softschools.com when I find poor understanding of a concept or weakness in a skill.

Why must they be two levels higher than their grades?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way. Professional educator and I will never, ever make my elementary kids do extra homework. It's not even developmentally appropriate for them to be doing the homework the school sends home, but I make them do that. They read every day, which is the only developmentally appropriate, valuable homework anyway.

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