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[quote=Anonymous]My dd attends a private school where she has a minimum of 4-5 hours of homework a night, weekends included.  I wouldn't dream of burdening her with more.

When she was little, I avoided like the plague anything even remotely resembling a worksheet.  If they were working on measurements or chemistry, we'd be in the kitchen baking.  It also works to teach proportions/ratios.  If she was working on classifications and patterns, we'd clean out her toybox and rearrange her stuffed animals.  We'd use donating as a way to practice pre-algebraic concepts.  "There are six stuffed animals in the bag, but we want to donate ten.  How many more should we put in?"  is much more interesting and relatable than a page full of 6 + x = 10, solve for x.  To work on vocab building foreign languages, we watched kids shows/cartoons/movies in foreign languages with subtitles, then I used a couple of the really frequently used words or expressions in conversations with her throughout the week.  "It's time to feed el gato."  I used the same technique for English vocabulary.  It really seemed to work and she never felt burdened or overburdened.  It was very natural and gave her a practical understanding of the concepts she was learning in school.[/quote]

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