Homework

Reply to Homework on Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:48:43 GMT

keroppi — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:48:43 GMT

I remember my kids’ schools have "no homework" policy for P1 & P2.

Reply to Homework on Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:36:52 GMT

fristrom — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:36:52 GMT

Thanks for all your feedback. My kid used to be in full day childcare, and I thought she will have more time in p1 since school is halfday. It has turned out not to be the case once the homework starts coming in.

It is nice to know that the amount of homework varies so much from one to another school. For the same school, does the amount of homework varies from one teacher to another too?

Reply to Homework on Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:54:38 GMT

Champion — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:54:38 GMT

My P1 DD2 seldom has homework ..According to her, most are done in school. The only homework that she has is the 好朋友 magazine; seems like it is being done every alternate day DD2 is very weak in 汉语拼音 so she always :nailbite: whenever there is Chinese-related homework :razz:

Reply to Homework on Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:06:49 GMT

MummyThreeStreams — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:06:49 GMT

We had no homework in P1. The teachers would give the boys time in class to do their worksheets and activity books. They would only have work to do at home if they didn’t finish up in class. But this was rare for my DS. Same for P2 now, though I find that he brings "work" home more often than last year, though usually this is still out of the ordinary.

Reply to Homework on Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:57:08 GMT

Funz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:57:08 GMT

Yah one would think that 1.5hrs everyday for each subject should be more then sufficient for the teachers to cover and do what they need to do with the kids. Well I surely thought it is definitely enough.

Initially I thought DS was slow in doing his work that is why he ends up with homework. But had a conversation with his teacher and she said she gave them a lot of homework that day since the following day no Spelling/Tingxie.

Oh well, some teachers still feel the need to give homework. And sometimes I suspect it is because in the past, parents expect homework to be given (well, even now, some parents believe in hmwk) and thus it is a habit now even if parents' expectations may be changing.

Reply to Homework on Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:36:33 GMT

poppy15 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:36:33 GMT

DS do not have any homework given.. :scratchhead:

on top of his weekly spelling & tingxie, all he need to do are his given assignments via http://www.mconline.sg at his own pace. ( i do it with him on alternate evenings)

all his worksheets are completed in class.. i can imagine that cos everyday he has 3 consecutive periods of english, mother tongue & maths

but what i do is to run thru his textbooks & make sure he truely understands what has been taught in class.

Reply to Homework on Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:01:31 GMT

Funz — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:01:31 GMT

DS seem to be getting homework almost everyday as well. Usually about 1 page of math and maybe 1 page from the haopengyou magazine, sometimes a bit of art. But most will take him at most 15-30mins to complete. On Fridays he will come back with more since it is the weekend. Last Friday he had 2 pages of Stella handwriting, 1 Journal, 1 art and 1 math. Again all these if he just sit down, focus and do, can be completed within 30mins.

It took me awhile to get use to this since DD did not have much homework at all. Weekends are really free. Only homework was the occasional corrections and maybe 1 page here and there. Not even once a week. I think.

Reply to Homework on Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:59:28 GMT

mummy of 2 — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:59:28 GMT

Mine gets less than once a week and so far it’s only been for one subject each time. Takes about 15 minutes to finish, on average. This is of course in addition to weekly spelling and tingxie.