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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't really understand the hostliilty towards homework in preschool, to be honest. For my class at least, the kids aren't getting hours of drills or anything. They get one math and one literacy hw each night. A literacy hw might be writing down three words in the -at word family. A math hw might be coloring in how many dimes they would need in order to buy something that is 30 cents. I think it is a good thing to keep parents involved - if they sit down with their kids to do 5-10 minutes of hw a night, then they will know exactly what we are working on at school. And while it's great that many parents try to teach their kids at home in different ways, the reality is that many kids don't have that luxury. So the hw we assign might be the only time their parents are really talking to the kids about the concepts they are learning in school. I don't see how a few minutes of reinforcement at home is a bad thing. [/quote]

I don't want my kids to have preschool homework because when they get home I want to teach them measurement while they help me cook, I want to run them around the playground, I want them to learn matching by helping me fold the laundry, I want to put together puzzles with them, I want to practice playing catch with them, and I want to read to them and work on teaching them to read.

I don't want to spend 15 minutes of our evening (5 minutes getting my kids at the table and set up, then 5-10 minutes of getting them to do a worksheet) because the teacher thinks that without that worksheet I'm not involved enough.  There are better ways for my 4 year old to spend 15 minutes. [/quote]

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