The school year's almost half over...

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The school year's almost half over...
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Tue, 01-16-2007 - 7:47pm
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Sabina

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Tue, 01-23-2007 - 9:07pm
i did do that with the book the chocolate wars
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Wed, 01-24-2007 - 7:35am

i disagree. i think standards and structures kids get handed from their parents is what carries them through school,through life too.......if a kid as young as 3rd or 4th grade has been told by a parent that "i'm not going to bug you as long as you achieve a 90 or above.." then that kid knows what the standard is in his home. (i'm not judging it as good or bad but a measuring device,it is). if a kid grows up knowing mom and dad are interested in their work and review it together on a regular basis,despite spelling's 92 average or math's 75 average,then the kid is going to grow up knowing that standard is the way it is.

it's not about holding a child's hand or correcting their homework wrongs. that's done in class. it's about a true interest in my child's work and how they're doing. there are subjects my child succeeds better in than others and because i'm not sitting in her classroom with her,i have a responsibility to remain interested in the work she brings home. i can't imagine only waiting until tests come home in her tuesday folder to determine my involvemnt. maybe that's why i sah. i can't imagine the rat race of doing it all if i wasn't even walking in the door until 5 or 6P.

 

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Wed, 01-24-2007 - 9:18am

That's what I was thinking 6th or 7th grade heck maybe 5th here, my oldest is only in 4th. My oldesrt really only has spelling homework, which is writing each spelling word three times. I wasn't checking it this year and one day I noticed it sitting out and there were a lot of little mistakes. I made him rewrite the words and he got a 100% on it, when I looked back at his other spelling homework he had lots of 80 somethings. He gets A's on all his spelling tests usually 100's but his homework grade was bringing his grade down.

From what I've seen at our school homework in grade school is about practice not a measure of what they know, until this year(4th grade) homework was only graded as done not as a % grade.

I usually ask my kids once if they have homework, if they forget to do it it's their fault.

Amy

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Wed, 01-24-2007 - 9:23am

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 01-24-2007 - 11:02am

I can't help with Spanish homework either, I don't speak the language.

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 01-24-2007 - 11:11am

What is independent?

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 01-24-2007 - 11:14am

Oh, I agree.

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 01-24-2007 - 11:17am

Yes, but as I said I don't always know what is best...sometimes it's nothing more than a guess.

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 01-24-2007 - 11:19am

That's not what you said in a previous post.

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 01-24-2007 - 11:24am

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I disagree about daily homework, as I have stated.

PumpkinAngel

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