Anonymous wrote:homework in PK is NOT age appropriate. K either! and expecting the child to read in front of the class is awful! the teacher clearly has not done research on best practices.

Agree.

Unless the homework is of the variety of "go outside and see how many bugs you can find and draw a picture of them" variety of assignment, homework is NOT appropriate for preK.

Anonymous wrote:homework in PK is NOT age appropriate. K either! and expecting the child to read in front of the class is awful! the teacher clearly has not done research on best practices.

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homework in PK is NOT age appropriate. K either! and expecting the child to read in front of the class is awful! the teacher clearly has not done research on best practices.

My PS3 has homework several nights of the week. It's usually a worksheet that has him practice the building blocks of writing ("fill the page with grass like this // \\"). It's optional, but my son loves it. And it helps gauge where he is in his learning and what he is doing at school.

I have a PK daughter who has a running assignment of completing book reports stories from the school library we read together. It is fun for both of us. There is a work sheet for her to fill in basic comments on the story. Mostly it is a way to get her writing letters.

The assignments have flexible, open deadlines: once she completes one, she can check out another book from the library. We usually do one a week on Sunday afternoons.

Janney does not give any PK homework.

Appletree definitely does.

My preschooler does and it's easy. It's just a way to engage parents in what the little one is learning at school.

Anonymous wrote:22:16, most PK kids have homework

That is absurd. My child is in pK and does NOT have homework.

22:16, most PK kids have homework

My son is in a DCPS PreK class. He had a short little assignment over the winter break. Nothing else before or since.

My kid starts preK in fall. I'd be extremely concerned with a school that assigned homework in preK. I don't think that is appropriate at all.

This is a common reading pattern at an appropriate level/skill for 4 year olds. What are you concerned about: the assignment or the fact that something was sent home?

I taught prek at a dc charter and we were required to send home math and reading homework every night. Over spring break and winter break we had to send home daily packets.

Are you concerned about the assignment? Your child may learn the 3 sight words featured by practicing reading the book. It may also be about teaching them simple print awareness - how to turn pages, going from front to back etc. And most prek kids are very proud of "reading" something to their classmates.

My kid came home this week from PK a printout from "reading a to z" and the teacher said she should read it as homework and then on Friday she could read it to the class. My kid knows all of her letter sounds and sort has started sounding out words but isn't reading yet. Anyway the book had this repeating pattern of " I see a _______" and there was a picture of whatever that blank was so between the repeating pattern and pictures she wasn't really reading as much as figuring out the pattern.

Anyway was curious if other DCPS parents had experienced this.