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Anonymous wrote:Telling time started this week

My kid just brought home empty clock to write the numbers in. Good lord, how dumb are these kids in MCPS 1st grade?? The most they will learn (per teacher) is o'clock and maybe 30. Anything else is too hard. B.O.R.I.N.G

+1, some of my kid's homework is really dumb. At least he can get it done quickly then we work on our own stuff.

lol.. they are 6/7 yrs old. Why do they need harder HW? Some people love to tout how great Finland's education system is, and the kids there don't even start school until 7 yrs of age. Do you think the education there is dumbed down because a lot of the kids there probably don't know how to read or tell time until they are 6 or 7?

-- signed a mom of a child in a gifted program.

We don't live in Finland and I have no interest in my child being in the gifted program. I have an interest in helping my child be successful. My child is asking to do multiplication and division. He's asking to learn cursive. What should I do, say no? I should tell my child that he has to put his learning on hold till Larlo and Larla learn to read? I should tell him, sorry, we cannot learn anything at home, school only. Or, better, a random person on the internet has said, its a bad idea for him to read as a random person on the internet said so.

Your complaint was that the HW was boring. My DC wanted to learn to tell time and read before K. So, yes, we taught DC. But, I still don't see why HW needs to be challenging for 6/7 yr olds. Your child's success doesn't hang on telling time or having challenging HW in 1st grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Telling time started this week

My kid just brought home empty clock to write the numbers in. Good lord, how dumb are these kids in MCPS 1st grade?? The most they will learn (per teacher) is o'clock and maybe 30. Anything else is too hard. B.O.R.I.N.G

+1, some of my kid's homework is really dumb. At least he can get it done quickly then we work on our own stuff.

lol.. they are 6/7 yrs old. Why do they need harder HW? Some people love to tout how great Finland's education system is, and the kids there don't even start school until 7 yrs of age. Do you think the education there is dumbed down because a lot of the kids there probably don't know how to read or tell time until they are 6 or 7?

-- signed a mom of a child in a gifted program.

We don't live in Finland and I have no interest in my child being in the gifted program. I have an interest in helping my child be successful. My child is asking to do multiplication and division. He's asking to learn cursive. What should I do, say no? I should tell my child that he has to put his learning on hold till Larlo and Larla learn to read? I should tell him, sorry, we cannot learn anything at home, school only. Or, better, a random person on the internet has said, its a bad idea for him to read as a random person on the internet said so.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. Telling time is being taught now in the 4th quarter in first grade. At least, it's in the curriculum, so it should be taught. PPs are correct in that fractions are taught first, then telling time. Forgive me if this has been pointed out already--I haven't read through the whole thread. . -MCPS 1st grade teacher

I pointed that out many pages ago. DCUM rarely lets facts stand in the way of a good MCPS complaint!

My second grader knows how to tell time now -- yay! -- but doesn't understand fractions at all, and still has no idea why a quarter -- 25 cents -- is called a quarter.

Why don't you teach them??

Yes but I'm a terrible teacher. So is the MCPS one, apparently.

Try the Rock to Learn Videos and there are tons of apps and workbooks as well. Simple solutions to things you want your kids to learn.

Thank you, I'm going to try the Rock to Learn videos.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. Telling time is being taught now in the 4th quarter in first grade. At least, it's in the curriculum, so it should be taught. PPs are correct in that fractions are taught first, then telling time. Forgive me if this has been pointed out already--I haven't read through the whole thread. . -MCPS 1st grade teacher

I pointed that out many pages ago. DCUM rarely lets facts stand in the way of a good MCPS complaint!

My second grader knows how to tell time now -- yay! -- but doesn't understand fractions at all, and still has no idea why a quarter -- 25 cents -- is called a quarter.

Why don't you teach them??

Yes but I'm a terrible teacher. So is the MCPS one, apparently.

Try the Rock to Learn Videos and there are tons of apps and workbooks as well. Simple solutions to things you want your kids to learn.

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Anonymous wrote:Telling time started this week

My kid just brought home empty clock to write the numbers in. Good lord, how dumb are these kids in MCPS 1st grade?? The most they will learn (per teacher) is o'clock and maybe 30. Anything else is too hard. B.O.R.I.N.G

Yes, as discussed earlier in the thread, the 1st grade curriculum includes whole and half hours. My first grader brought home "whole hour" homework that was easily completed, and then we used one of those owl clocks where you can move the hands to practice whole, half, and quarter hours. It wasn't a huge investment of time on my part and helped solidify the concepts being taught in school. Why can't the folks complaining about the curriculum just supplement a little at home?

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Anonymous wrote:Telling time started this week

My kid just brought home empty clock to write the numbers in. Good lord, how dumb are these kids in MCPS 1st grade?? The most they will learn (per teacher) is o'clock and maybe 30. Anything else is too hard. B.O.R.I.N.G

+1, some of my kid's homework is really dumb. At least he can get it done quickly then we work on our own stuff.

lol.. they are 6/7 yrs old. Why do they need harder HW? Some people love to tout how great Finland's education system is, and the kids there don't even start school until 7 yrs of age. Do you think the education there is dumbed down because a lot of the kids there probably don't know how to read or tell time until they are 6 or 7?

-- signed a mom of a child in a gifted program.

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Anonymous wrote:Telling time started this week

My kid just brought home empty clock to write the numbers in. Good lord, how dumb are these kids in MCPS 1st grade?? The most they will learn (per teacher) is o'clock and maybe 30. Anything else is too hard. B.O.R.I.N.G

+1, some of my kid's homework is really dumb. At least he can get it done quickly then we work on our own stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:Telling time started this week

My kid just brought home empty clock to write the numbers in. Good lord, how dumb are these kids in MCPS 1st grade?? The most they will learn (per teacher) is o'clock and maybe 30. Anything else is too hard. B.O.R.I.N.G

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Anonymous wrote:Telling time started this week

My kid just brought home empty clock to write the numbers in. Good lord, how dumb are these kids in MCPS 1st grade?? The most they will learn (per teacher) is o'clock and maybe 30. Anything else is too hard. B.O.R.I.N.G

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. Telling time is being taught now in the 4th quarter in first grade. At least, it's in the curriculum, so it should be taught. PPs are correct in that fractions are taught first, then telling time. Forgive me if this has been pointed out already--I haven't read through the whole thread. . -MCPS 1st grade teacher

I pointed that out many pages ago. DCUM rarely lets facts stand in the way of a good MCPS complaint!

My second grader knows how to tell time now -- yay! -- but doesn't understand fractions at all, and still has no idea why a quarter -- 25 cents -- is called a quarter.

Why don't you teach them??

Yes but I'm a terrible teacher. So is the MCPS one, apparently.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. Telling time is being taught now in the 4th quarter in first grade. At least, it's in the curriculum, so it should be taught. PPs are correct in that fractions are taught first, then telling time. Forgive me if this has been pointed out already--I haven't read through the whole thread. . -MCPS 1st grade teacher

I pointed that out many pages ago. DCUM rarely lets facts stand in the way of a good MCPS complaint!

My second grader knows how to tell time now -- yay! -- but doesn't understand fractions at all, and still has no idea why a quarter -- 25 cents -- is called a quarter.

Why don't you teach them??

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. Telling time is being taught now in the 4th quarter in first grade. At least, it's in the curriculum, so it should be taught. PPs are correct in that fractions are taught first, then telling time. Forgive me if this has been pointed out already--I haven't read through the whole thread. . -MCPS 1st grade teacher

I have a child in 1st and there is no telling time yet. Just a few weeks yet so we shall see