ds 7 has just gone into the juniors, his homework has trebled. He has spellings and then sentences to make out of the spellings, literacy sheet and maths.
It is causing him a lot of stress and me too. He gets the homework on mon to be completed by fri. He is reluctant to do it every time. He will get himself all worked up, crying etc.
I have tried spreading it out over the week but that makes every night stressful, I sit with him and help him, but when I can see he is not doing what is required and try to point that out to him, he goes into meltdown for example his spellings he is supposed to make a sentence. The spelling is boy so his sentence is Boy game. He will only do it his way and I have given up trying to point out how it should be done because then he will give up.
He finds the literacy home work the most stressful, his hand aches, and so the quantity of work he is producing is not enough. Now he is in the juniors if homework isn't done satisfactorily they get a yellow card, the whole time he is doing his work he is just repeating I am going to get a yellow card. (he has never had one so far in infants and it is a big fear).
On the plus side when he was doing his maths homework his older sister was mouth agape. He was adding thousands, hundreds and tens without even thinking about it. Just looked at the sum and wrote it down within a second no workings out. if it was all maths homework he would be fine.
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purplemurple · 23/09/2011 09:55
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