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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe in the summer, but making a kid do 30 minutes of a workbook after sitting in school for 8 hours is abnormal.[/quote]

How is this any different from kids doing 30 (or more) minutes of homework assigned by the school?

DD (third grader) goes to a school with a no homework policy.  On days when she doesn't have too much going on after school, she does *something* academic, and that doesn't necessarily correlate in any way to what she's doing in school.  It could be an experiment, it could be collecting pinecones and seeing if they follow Fibonacci (or any other) series, it could be a book on problem solving.  We'll likely continue with it at home over the summer, on weeks where she has no summer camp (which is most weeks).  Heck, she might get a little more than 30 or 45 minutes of schoolwork daily, over the summer. When she was younger, she used to go to school year round, and while there were more fun activities than schoolwork, I found it really helpful when it came to retention of material she had studied during the school year.[/quote]

I was the PP with the workbook. In my original post I said he did 30 minutes of workbook to earn screen time during the summer. I double checked the post and saw the word summer in front of the 30 minutes section. He is not allowed to play video games during the school week, it leads to far too much whining, especially on days that he has his sport or Cub Scouts. He is allowed to play video games on the weekends without doing anything special.

During the school year he does whatever his teachers send home and if his teacher doesn't send something home, he does something out of a work book in an area that he is a bit weaker. It takes him 5-10 minutes total and is completed after 30 minutes of play and some snack. Normally his teachers send home a math sheet, writing practice, and an instruction to read. He does that after 30 minutes of play/down time and a snack. I think he has completed a whooping 4 pages in his workbook. He spends 15 minutes tops on school work after school. No big deal.

But in the summer, he spends 30 minutes working on a work book. It comes with a map that he pulls out and adds stickers to as he completes pages. There are days that he chooses not to do it, which is fine. He doesn't play any Mario on those days. No worries. [/quote]

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