Anonymous
08/15/2023 21:49
Subject: Welcome school email from principal
Definitely don't stress over the homework assignment. Go to the open house if it's not a pain to change your plans.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 20:42
Subject: Welcome school email from principal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At my kids school they offer summer “assignment” packets and if your child chooses to complete it and hand it in they get something like a pencil or bookmark-some acknowledgment. Don’t stress over it and certainly don’t stress your kid out over it. Likely, no one will even look at it.
Op here. Now, after you mention this, I see there is a sentence says hat kid will get a treat or something if they complete it. So, this means it is "optional"?
Yes! I wouldn’t freak my kid out about this.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 17:34
Subject: Welcome school email from principal
Anonymous wrote:We receive a welcome email from school principal about school will start soon, class assignment will be released next week, and a reminder of hand in summer assignment. I was shocked that my kid has summer assignment and he did not tell me.He said he completely forgot about it, and they are reading and math homework. I was really mad at him forgetting this, and now he is rushing to complete it. He will be second grader in the fall. He did not have any homework assignment last summer.
Should he expect to have daily or weekly homework as a second grader? And, the email specificiallly say they don't allow change of classroom request and classroom sneak peak is next Friday for an hour. We have plan already for this friday, should we change plan to go meet the classroom/teacher/classmates?
Did you receive any emails from mcps all summer? Were they all about equity or were there any about actual learning like summer packets?
Anonymous
08/15/2023 15:30
Subject: Welcome school email from principal
I don't think summer work even at the HS level is required anymore.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 15:29
Subject: Welcome school email from principal
It's 100% optional and it's easy for a kid to forget. Who knows if the 2nd grade teacher will even collect it? They just want the kids to keep doing some kind of school stuff over the summer and not to forget how to write or count.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 15:04
Subject: Re:Welcome school email from principal
OP - summer work is always optional. It's not until HS level and some AP/IB courses that summer work might be graded/quizzed on, but even then you have to give some time that a kid who just enrolled could complete the assignment the first week.
In elementary school, summer work is provided so that students can engage in math and reading every week to help prevent "summer slide". If you don't get to it, it's fine. But if you aren't doing any sort of enrichment (even going to the library periodically), then it might be a more difficult transition back to school mode in the fall.
In elementary school, summer work is provided so that students can engage in math and reading every week to help prevent "summer slide". If you don't get to it, it's fine. But if you aren't doing any sort of enrichment (even going to the library periodically), then it might be a more difficult transition back to school mode in the fall.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 11:43
Subject: Welcome school email from principal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At my kids school they offer summer “assignment” packets and if your child chooses to complete it and hand it in they get something like a pencil or bookmark-some acknowledgment. Don’t stress over it and certainly don’t stress your kid out over it. Likely, no one will even look at it.
Op here. Now, after you mention this, I see there is a sentence says hat kid will get a treat or something if they complete it. So, this means it is "optional"?
Yes.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 11:41
Subject: Welcome school email from principal
Anonymous wrote:At my kids school they offer summer “assignment” packets and if your child chooses to complete it and hand it in they get something like a pencil or bookmark-some acknowledgment. Don’t stress over it and certainly don’t stress your kid out over it. Likely, no one will even look at it.
Op here. Now, after you mention this, I see there is a sentence says hat kid will get a treat or something if they complete it. So, this means it is "optional"?
Anonymous
08/15/2023 10:46
Subject: Welcome school email from principal
Anonymous wrote:At my kids school they offer summer “assignment” packets and if your child chooses to complete it and hand it in they get something like a pencil or bookmark-some acknowledgment. Don’t stress over it and certainly don’t stress your kid out over it. Likely, no one will even look at it.
This! No way I would make my kid do this nor would I be mad if he forgot about it. If he does it, great. But the school will not care at all.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 10:43
Subject: Welcome school email from principal
At my kids school they offer summer “assignment” packets and if your child chooses to complete it and hand it in they get something like a pencil or bookmark-some acknowledgment. Don’t stress over it and certainly don’t stress your kid out over it. Likely, no one will even look at it.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 10:02
Subject: Welcome school email from principal
It's for sure not required for second grade. Teachers cant even give grades from hw assignments at the elementary level.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 09:59
Subject: Re:Welcome school email from principal
It's nice to go to the sneak peek and meet the teacher and see the classroom, but it's not required. There will be staff there on the first day to help them find their way.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 09:51
Subject: Re:Welcome school email from principal
I would not be too upset with a second grader over this. Now if he was in middle or high school, then yeah.
But honestly, I'm surprised summer homework was given since MCPS has decided homework is optional at the elementary level. Are you sure it's required?
But honestly, I'm surprised summer homework was given since MCPS has decided homework is optional at the elementary level. Are you sure it's required?
Anonymous
08/15/2023 09:48
Subject: Welcome school email from principal
don't freak out over a 2nd grade summer assignment. let the kid be a kid.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 09:42
Subject: Welcome school email from principal
We receive a welcome email from school principal about school will start soon, class assignment will be released next week, and a reminder of hand in summer assignment. I was shocked that my kid has summer assignment and he did not tell me.He said he completely forgot about it, and they are reading and math homework. I was really mad at him forgetting this, and now he is rushing to complete it. He will be second grader in the fall. He did not have any homework assignment last summer.
Should he expect to have daily or weekly homework as a second grader? And, the email specificiallly say they don't allow change of classroom request and classroom sneak peak is next Friday for an hour. We have plan already for this friday, should we change plan to go meet the classroom/teacher/classmates?
Should he expect to have daily or weekly homework as a second grader? And, the email specificiallly say they don't allow change of classroom request and classroom sneak peak is next Friday for an hour. We have plan already for this friday, should we change plan to go meet the classroom/teacher/classmates?