How much school work is your 5 or 6 year old doing ?

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Just concerned mine isn't doing enough. They are given a worksheet each day. Eithet one page of maths or literacy. Reading is recommended (non specific) and PE (Joe Wicks and Go Noodle).
Is this enough? I have bought quite a few readers and teaching the sight words (not everyday). They write their news or a sentence or two (6 year old nearly 7). The five year old is doing cvc words (twinkl) and work set by teacher (phase 2 phonics)

They are quite hard to motivate . Have nothing to compare them to.

My 5 year old reads me a reading book and maybe does a page of a maths workbook and an educational game on the tablet (set by school).

I don't always do everything but I'm a firm believer in learning through play at this age. He plays outdoors loads, draws and builds Lego. Occasionally we do craft, baking and I try and do some maths etc during this.

We could possibly be doing more writing but I'm trying not to stress. They will catch up in time. I'd rather not end up getting frustrated with him if he's not wanting to do it.

DD is 5 and in year R. Minimal amount of formal learning going on because I have DS who is almost 4 months and in sleep regression/teething hell. Reading Eggs is a great app which she really enjoys and we watch a documentary together every day

Mine is set work daily and it consists of maths (online activities and worksheets), a reading task, phonics- usually a video to watch followed by writing, foundation topic - re before easter so doing things about easter, music lesson online with activities to do, cosmic kids or joe wickes.

It changes every day which mixes it up. The teachers can check the progress on all the sites they've logged into and the written work we submit onto their class profile daily. She gives lots of feedback too which is nice.
She did say one day when I was struggling that the main thing is to keep him reading even if he does nothing else.

DD is 5 and in yr1. We try to read every day, but nothing else is fixed. We do some math apps and a bit of writing if the mood takes her but our school has drilled into the parents that mentally healthy children are more important than trying to home-school.

Ours are working to full time table. Maths, English, Science or History or Topic, reading, tables practice, PE, tying practice etc

It's a bloody nightmare to manage when trying to work from home.

Mine does very little. He gets projects from school but they are mostly drawing things. I make him keep a daily diary. I make him do things like GoNoodle or BBC Bitesize. I basically give him a few tasks each day, but he spends most of his time running around in the garden and playing with his sisters. He also loves craft which is a godsend. And we bought a tablet at the start of lockdown but he hasn't got into it. So I make him play a game once or twice a week. TV is only allowed before breakfast or while I am prepping dinner. Or after dinner. Not much actual work at all.

Yr 1 for my 6 year old
English & Maths and two other subjects every day
As well as PE (set by the games dept) and reading every day too.

Ok.. So much the same. That makes me feel better. I didn't want to ask other mums I know or get into any kind of competition (not saying it would but just want the kids to be happy). I don't want them to struggle next year either. They play a lot. We walk everyday and bake or whatever takes our fancy. But I will make a better attempt tomorrow (bribe them). Dh says he only ever read one page each night. He is in his mid 40s and his mother wouldn't have been the type to fuss. I told him it's not comparable

Every time the reading book comes out dh says 'Oh that's a long book' He doesn't see the point.

Mine are 6 and 4, both really keen on school work! 6 year old has suggested activities sent home, for example today she did a writing piece about Mary Anning and some research into the different places in the world fossils have been found. Then some times tables and some fractions. She reads a lot anyway so probably spent about an hour reading one of her ‘Daisy’ books.
4 year old did some phase 4 phonics (activity sent through from school), some work on measuring (found things round the house to measure with a ruler/tape measure plus some worksheets from Twinkl), got involved with some of her sisters dinosaur work and some reading (she read me 2 books) and some comprehension questions.
To be honest I’d happily do less but they’re keen!

Just to contrast here, my 7yo did TTRockstars for 10.minutes this morning and read a book to me, completely failed to engage with any other actual schoolwork but built me a game on Minecraft instead.

Our school has set a very low bar which suits altho I could do with more direction as I spend loads of time searching Twinkl to pull together structured days / weeks (note this is only since I've been furloughed; previously it was very haphazard)

Now we do about 90-120 mins of worksheet stuff (creative writing, comprehension, maths, science) across two sessions. We're reading Biff, Chip and Kipper books on Oxford Owl. We watch a science thing at 11am each day (Maddie Moate's Let's go Live on YouTube, it's great). We do Cosmic Kids yoga most days. And we do an arts and crafts session each day linked to something we've learned. Probably about 4 hours per day all in. The rest of the day is playing/ reading or audio books / messing around outside / daily walk and chores. And waaay to much YouTube. I feel like it's a victory if she watches CBBC rather than crap of YouTube!

Varies immensely day to day despite our attempt at a structured timetable - today was a good day, yesterday bit of a write off. Depends on my work commitments how much time i have and mood of my 6 year old - am trying not to get stressed about it to be honest.

I think it varies so much between children too. There's no way my 6 and 4 year old would do more than about 1-2 hours work a day and even that's challenging getting them to focus. I'm trying to do as little writing as possible and turn most of the writing activities into games so they are actually willing to learn. I've taken a tip from my Granny and make the eldest recite his times tables everytime he has a bath . A lot of their learning has been tablet based with supervision as I've learnt they'll do pretty much anything if its presented to them as an app!!

We're currently achieving about 20 minutes a day of formal school work. DS2 is 8, he has ASD and can't really do school stuff at home because it doesn't sit right with his expectations even though on one level he understands lockdown. His teacher says not to worry and let him learn however he can. He will spend ages looking on google at things he likes.

My daughters school have been putting some stuff online and sent them home with packs but they are emphasising just to do what we can. We’ve been doing a few worksheets a day, interspersed with drawing and colouring (as it passes some time!). I also get her to read a story/book and write some things she learned from it in a sentence (also takes up a good chunk of time). Other fave in our house is Draw With Rob Biddulph on you tube where he does a tutorial twice a week (it’s fab). Have also downloaded a telling time app which she likes.
Some days are better than others, it’s so hard when trying to work from home too. If I have a day off we will try to play a board game too or do some baking. The resources on Twinkl are good too.

School sets work for the week and suggests which bits to do each day. Lots of detail of activities. Phonics and some high frequency words, maths, writing (poetry this week - task for each day). Suggestions of pe and outside stuff too and lots of encouragement to read. We're encouraged to send a photo one a week which are then shared with the class. Teacher is doing a video of her reading a story too. Also replies to messages. We do most of it but don't spend too long - lots of breaks to play outside or with siblings.

DS is in yr 1. He reads (which he likes), does around 4 sentences of writing (very reluctantly) and is learning to tell the time. Maths is 15 minutes or so of questions that we set him.

I've been furloughed but keeping up with the basics seems sufficient.

My 6yo in Year 2 is doing about 2-3 hours a day. His teacher sends him a timetable and it has one literacy activity per day, one maths activity per day, then 5 other activities of other subjects for the week. So every day he does maths, literacy, then either science/history/geography/art/PE. We also practice spellings and he reads to me daily.