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Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

There is no FCPS "no homework" implementation. That may be your school's approach. My 6th grade AAP typically has math and either social studies or a writing project.

At our Center, 5th and 6th grade AAP have homework almost every single night--and in 5th grade it was not infrequently more than an hour for my really conscientious (almost perfectionist) kid. Math homework every night, reading and often writing most nights, and science, social studies, vocab added in the mix, too.

You and your conscientious kid should be grateful. My DC is now dealing with the impacts of not having homework 4th and up - no drill and kill on math means it takes her too long to do problems in some timed tests, even though she knows the concepts perfect.

I'm not sure that you can claim she knows something perfectly if she cannot do it on a timed test. Usually school tests have ample time to do the problems, unlike say, math competitions. I agree with your general point about homework, particularly meaningful homework.

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Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

There is no FCPS "no homework" implementation. That may be your school's approach. My 6th grade AAP typically has math and either social studies or a writing project.

At our Center, 5th and 6th grade AAP have homework almost every single night--and in 5th grade it was not infrequently more than an hour for my really conscientious (almost perfectionist) kid. Math homework every night, reading and often writing most nights, and science, social studies, vocab added in the mix, too.

You and your conscientious kid should be grateful. My DC is now dealing with the impacts of not having homework 4th and up - no drill and kill on math means it takes her too long to do problems in some timed tests, even though she knows the concepts perfect.

Anonymous wrote:If you want homework- Louise Archer AAP. 5th grade is about 1.5 hours of homework per night. 6th grade is about 40 mins of homework a night. 5th grade is stressful for those who play travel sports and have lots of activities but they are very well prepared for middle school.

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Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

There is no FCPS "no homework" implementation. That may be your school's approach. My 6th grade AAP typically has math and either social studies or a writing project.

At our Center, 5th and 6th grade AAP have homework almost every single night--and in 5th grade it was not infrequently more than an hour for my really conscientious (almost perfectionist) kid. Math homework every night, reading and often writing most nights, and science, social studies, vocab added in the mix, too.

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Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

There is no FCPS "no homework" implementation. That may be your school's approach. My 6th grade AAP typically has math and either social studies or a writing project.

Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

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Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

Tell that to my kids Teachers at his base school. He is downstairs doing math and social studies homework. He has about 30 minutes a day in his 6th grade class.

There is no FCPS policy on ES homework, it depends on the school and the Teacher.

+1. Sixth grade. Lots of homework coming home—even over weekends sometimes. They read novels, answer 4 pages of essays, complete math sheets, study for big unit tests with digital interactive notebooks to complete, spelling words, vocabulary words, POGPOL presentation, reading comprehension passages and pages of follow up questions for LA and Social Studies, creative writing assignment, and this is all on top of reading 20 minutes each day. We have had HW since 1st grade, too. So, we never heard or experienced a ‘no homework’ policy.

This is a kid that isn't finishing the work at school or a kid that is inherently studious. Definitely not the norm and not the norm for FCPS elementary school. Parent in Fairfax would throw a hissy fit if this came home on a regular basis because most kids are booked on sports and other activities to support this level of homework on a recurring basis.

completely false! Parents were told by 6th grade team to expect 45 minutes of homework every night from the beginning of the year onward. This is in addition to requiring reading for 20 minutes. Kids do homework before or after sports. Parents don’t complain because that’s how they grew up. They refer to it as ‘old school’. No complaining at all.

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Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

Tell that to my kids Teachers at his base school. He is downstairs doing math and social studies homework. He has about 30 minutes a day in his 6th grade class.

There is no FCPS policy on ES homework, it depends on the school and the Teacher.

+1. Sixth grade. Lots of homework coming home—even over weekends sometimes. They read novels, answer 4 pages of essays, complete math sheets, study for big unit tests with digital interactive notebooks to complete, spelling words, vocabulary words, POGPOL presentation, reading comprehension passages and pages of follow up questions for LA and Social Studies, creative writing assignment, and this is all on top of reading 20 minutes each day. We have had HW since 1st grade, too. So, we never heard or experienced a ‘no homework’ policy.

This is a kid that isn't finishing the work at school or a kid that is inherently studious. Definitely not the norm and not the norm for FCPS elementary school. Parent in Fairfax would throw a hissy fit if this came home on a regular basis because most kids are booked on sports and other activities to support this level of homework on a recurring basis.

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Anonymous wrote:The short answer is "no". FCPS elementary schools have implemented a "no homework" policy and homework usually means reading time at home. It's not like our past where writing, penmanship or other such things are sent home for kids to do. Even in 6th grade at Haycock Elementary Level 4 AAP, there is actually very little work coming home to complete. It's usually some PBL-type assignment. Currently the big focus for my 6th grader at Haycock is the National History Day project, which if I understand correctly, is all 6th graders in the school who are participating. These are the types of things coming home for work assignments.

Tell that to my kids Teachers at his base school. He is downstairs doing math and social studies homework. He has about 30 minutes a day in his 6th grade class.

There is no FCPS policy on ES homework, it depends on the school and the Teacher.

+1. Sixth grade. Lots of homework coming home—even over weekends sometimes. They read novels, answer 4 pages of essays, complete math sheets, study for big unit tests with digital interactive notebooks to complete, spelling words, vocabulary words, POGPOL presentation, reading comprehension passages and pages of follow up questions for LA and Social Studies, creative writing assignment, and this is all on top of reading 20 minutes each day. We have had HW since 1st grade, too. So, we never heard or experienced a ‘no homework’ policy.

Anonymous wrote:Outside of project-based learning and multiweek assignments like the PP mentioned on NHD, teachers don't assign homework outside of daily reading. If your child is doing social studies or math "homework" at home, it usually means he or she didn't finish what was done in class and they are finishing it up at home. FCPS adopted a 'no homework' policy many years ago. If your kids have graduated from college (in recent past), you'd likely remember what homework in elementary school used to look like.