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[quote=Anonymous]This is the PP with the 3rd grader.  My daughter is not in GT, but my understanding of GT is that they cover the same information as Gen Ed but they go into greater depth and do more projects.  Which is why the website probably says to expect more homework.  I guess if you should expect no more than 1 hour in Gen Ed - you'd expect no more than 1.25-1.5 hours for GT so your daugther's homework level is probably right on target.

The breakdown from what you stated above seems to be:
15 mins - spelling
20 mins - math?
15 mins - reading journal
(unfinished work - my daughter has that too occassionally -- I don't know if you can count that :wink:
15 mins - book resport (if you average the 5 hours out 20 days a month)
15 mins reading log? (can she use the same books for book log as she does in reading journal?)

That comes out to 1 hour and 20 minutes a night - and that's assuming she's not working on the book resports on the weekends.  Sounds rigorous though -- I can sympathize!  My daughter also has extra-curriculars 2 nights a week plus a game on Saturday and girl scouts too - not quite so much homework this year though which is a relief, but then, I wonder if she is being sufficiently challenged.  If you think it would help your daughter and/or others in the class to just have work due at the end or beginning of the week and allow them to manage their own time, I would ask the teacher if that's acceptable.  I doubt the teacher checks to see if everyone is doing every single assignment every day anyhow...[/quote]

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