What is an appropriate amount of homework for a 1st grader?
1 hour a night?
2 hours a night?
or another amount of time?
My son's teacher give assignments such the one listed below every night.
Copy each of your 10 spelling words 3 times each
20 addition fact worksheet
Write 3 asking sentences using your site words.
Review 25 site words
Read with your child
It takes us about 2 hours and sometimes more to get this done. I think that's too much. I know that school has change in the last 2 decades and is now more rigorous, but is this too much. He's exhausted and hates school and I'm starting to too.
2006-09-20 07:17:59 · 14 answers · asked by letmesurpriseu 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
Good question. I see the necessity of homework to supplement the educational experience of school, but at what point is the teacher pawning off the responsibilities of 'teaching' to the parent? I'd set up a conference with the teacher to discuss. If you are not satisfied, then try the principle, then the superintendent of the school system.
My personal opinion is that 1 hour per night should be sufficient. If you believe in instilling family chores and sharing responsibilites, there needs to be time for those, dinner, and family recreation/quality time as well.
2006-09-20 07:23:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a School Administrator and former classroom teacher I would say that a first grader should have no more than 30 minutes a night. If that. There are variables that could require children to do more. 1 could be the material isn't fully understood by the child therefore it takes them longer. 2 the student didn't use there time wisely in class and had to take more home to do. 3 the teacher gives to much work. 4 the child doesn't stay on task at home and therefore it seems like the child has more to do. I would consult with the teacher to get his/her opinion on what kind of a time frame they expect for homework.
2006-09-20 07:33:31 · answer #2 · answered by Road King 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its actually now the case that with young kids, the teachers are really assigning parent homework. Look at the projects that young kids turn in. Its clear that they did pretty much nothing on them. It was all the parents. In my son's second grade class, one of his classmates did a project totally on his own (his parents believe that is the way it should be). The project looked like it was done by a second grader. Teacher refused to accept it and his parrents ended up helping him a lot. What was the point of that?
I think we run a big risk of burning kids out on school work too soon. College is pretty much a must for most kids. So its 16 years of schooling at least. If you burn them out too early, they will never make it to or through college. Is that the goal? And when do kids get to be kids nowadays?
2006-09-20 07:23:00 · answer #3 · answered by brian 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The rule I have heard is 20 minutes per grade level, so for your son that's only 20 minutes per day. Still, the assigments you listed sound like they should not take 2 hours for a first grader. Try to talk to your son's teacher, soon.
Save the reading for bedtime, about 20 minutes a day for that too.
Oh, and if you live in the northeast you might want to wait until later to post your question. Most teachers are still at work now.
2006-09-20 07:37:21 · answer #4 · answered by beautypsychic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you spoken to the other parents? Maybe it is an hour to an hour and a half of homework but your kid takes longer.
I think it sounds like a lot. The teacher should stagger the math and writing homework, so he does one every other day.
If schools wouldn't completely waste time all day long trying to indoctrinate our children to their agendas they would have time to teach actual facts and not need you to basically homeschool him after school, because that's basically what this teacher has you doing.
2006-09-20 07:31:20 · answer #5 · answered by MeNTeddy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
schools are more rigourous than they used to be? I dont know what school you went to, or what school he goes to now, but my gf's kids have less homework during the whole week put together than i did every day, and it shows. Your son should work on the homework long enough so he understands it. I must say though, what he is doing sounds like more work than the 5th grader is getting here. It could be worse, he could spends three or four hours a nite watching tv, and end up a drooling idiot.
2006-09-20 07:21:44 · answer #6 · answered by rand a 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm an elementary education major in my junior year. And I've been taught to use the 10 minute rule.
So first grade would be 10 minutes of homework
second grade would be 20 minutes of homework
third grade would be 30 minutes of homework...etc
2006-09-20 07:47:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 04:34:18 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say 1 hour is about right. Elementary school kids seem to get the most. I guarantee that most high school students don't do two hours of homework every night.
2006-09-20 07:23:43 · answer #9 · answered by Byakuya 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My goodness that seems like ALOT, its really a shame to see that much homework when they spend the bulk of their day learning to have to come home and do something like that.
I definately believe that is to much. My daughter is now 14 and she never had that much homework in first grade. What can you do? Do you know any of the parents in his class? If you knew more parents felt this way, one of you could approach the teacher with this...
Good luck to you
2006-09-20 07:21:01 · answer #10 · answered by Trish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋