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Anonymous wrote:One of DS' teacher keeps telling me he is not doing all his work. We are working on it. He does all his math and his phonics work sheets but still he is just not doing other stuff. I asked her to send home work that he doesn't' do so we can work on it at home but honestly, I got it yesterday and am a bit shocked it is 2nd grade work.

So the question is this:

"What does Sparta's stand at Thermopylae tell us about Spartans? Why was it important?"

Then gives them lines to write their answer. I am going to be honest that this sound similar to what my 5th grader is doing so I was a bit shocked it was given in 2nd grade. I am kind of not surprised my child could not do it. He said they learned about Sparta the week before and then were given this. I asked if the teacher dictated what they should write, and he said no (i don't know if this is true or not lol). My 5th grader did 2nd grade at the same school, and I don't remember these assignments, but covid did cut things short.

For background he has no learning disorders (just did a private assessment). He does have ADHD and we are starting treatment, but I am not even sure ADHD meds could have him write a paragraph about Sparta's stand at Thermopylae. I also thought it was unusual to use the word "stand" as I am not sure if 2nd graders would understand it in that context. I did ask one other parent that I know how her kid does and she said he writes two words, but obviously that isn't' a sample size.

So typical 2nd grade work?

Yes its typical. Part of the CKLA curriculum that APS adopted. My daughter had a similar assignment. Happy to see that APS is giving our kids challenging work and using an evidence based, content rich curriculum.

Anonymous wrote:I agree that there probably was a reading passage to go with it, but I think you are also overestimating the teacher’s expectations for a response. She’s probably not expecting a well-composed paragraph, most answers will be something like “brave. becuse they stayed.”

Anonymous wrote:One of DS' teacher keeps telling me he is not doing all his work. We are working on it. He does all his math and his phonics work sheets but still he is just not doing other stuff. I asked her to send home work that he doesn't' do so we can work on it at home but honestly, I got it yesterday and am a bit shocked it is 2nd grade work.

So the question is this:

"What does Sparta's stand at Thermopylae tell us about Spartans? Why was it important?"

Then gives them lines to write their answer. I am going to be honest that this sound similar to what my 5th grader is doing so I was a bit shocked it was given in 2nd grade. I am kind of not surprised my child could not do it. He said they learned about Sparta the week before and then were given this. I asked if the teacher dictated what they should write, and he said no (i don't know if this is true or not lol). My 5th grader did 2nd grade at the same school, and I don't remember these assignments, but covid did cut things short.

For background he has no learning disorders (just did a private assessment). He does have ADHD and we are starting treatment, but I am not even sure ADHD meds could have him write a paragraph about Sparta's stand at Thermopylae. I also thought it was unusual to use the word "stand" as I am not sure if 2nd graders would understand it in that context. I did ask one other parent that I know how her kid does and she said he writes two words, but obviously that isn't' a sample size.

So typical 2nd grade work?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, typical. They have "Ancient Greece" now in 2nd grade.

very happy to hear about this. Also glad there is at least some composition in 2nd grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Expecting the teacher to send all the reading materials in addition to the papers seems like a big ask. Matt kids were able to work on unfinished work before school (the 10 mins from when they are allowed in the class and when the bell rings). Can he do that?

To be clear she offered to send home work so we could work on it. I don't want to burden her too much though. It be nice if we had access to the text books they use at home. I will ask about extra time in class. I think he is generally just paralyzed with how to start so maybe i can see if we can get him some examples of what is expected .

This is something that a good teacher can do. You can send her a message that says that - you'd like to help him with his work and you see that he gets paralyzed and needs help getting started/knowing how to begin.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, typical. They have "Ancient Greece" now in 2nd grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Expecting the teacher to send all the reading materials in addition to the papers seems like a big ask. Matt kids were able to work on unfinished work before school (the 10 mins from when they are allowed in the class and when the bell rings). Can he do that?

To be clear she offered to send home work so we could work on it. I don't want to burden her too much though. It be nice if we had access to the text books they use at home. I will ask about extra time in class. I think he is generally just paralyzed with how to start so maybe i can see if we can get him some examples of what is expected .

Anonymous wrote:Expecting the teacher to send all the reading materials in addition to the papers seems like a big ask. Matt kids were able to work on unfinished work before school (the 10 mins from when they are allowed in the class and when the bell rings). Can he do that?

Anonymous wrote:You can sign into myaccess using your kid's info and access the reader to see the text in the amplify app.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, typical. They have "Ancient Greece" now in 2nd grade.

+1 Yep, my 2nd grader has been learning about Greek myths for months, it feels like.