My 4 year olds homework??

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This is my 4 year old homework. I need google to do it, seriously maths has changed since I was at school.

But it's completely pointless.

they need to learn to do homework independently.
If they can't read, that's what they should practice and learn.

looking at your mum googling is of no use to anyone.

I find this sad. Far too abstract work. AT this age children should be
learning through play, handling and talking about 3 D objects rather than filling in sheets like this for homework. If they don’t go through and understand the basic principles it won’t help them in the long run.
I suggest you go on a shape walk and talk about the shapes and their properties and let your child have fun. This will be more meaningful than a sheet like this.
Unless your child is an absolute maths genius and thrives on this sort of work,, but in my 20 years of teaching I have only come across 1 child who was extraordinarily gifted ( way above the G&T). You would know If he was.

I teach y5/6 and would have to revise these shape names with them at the start of a shape unit. They start is really young for some reason but it just doesn’t stick. With DS his understanding has always been ahead of his computation ability which is in turn ahead of his memorisation ability. He still doesn't remember the months in order at 14 but has a prediction of an 8 in GCSE maths.

@thecatandthevicar

But it's completely pointless.

they need to learn to do homework independently.
If they can't read, that's what they should practice and learn.

looking at your mum googling is of no use to anyone.

I ask her the questions and use google to check. I’m not finding answers for her. My point is I don’t know, yet a 4 yo does?

We had that sheet in year one for homeschooling a few weeks ago, I thought it was a bit tricky but they had no issues with it. It’s a very selective private school though (not my kid) so I guess it’s harder than most! Reception surprises me though!

She’s known 3D shapes since about 3 and could count to 10 at 2, she’s bright but I just thought that homework was ridiculous.

I struggle with this and I'm in my mid 40s never mind 4.

Hopefully its been given to them in error. I remember getting some homework at school once when I was in year 9 and actually crying because I couldn't work it out at all. It turned out the teacher had accidentally given me work meant for his A level maths group :(

This is year 2 work. My DD did this during lockdown

@Allthenumbers

That’s ridiculous and not appropriate for a reception child. I’m a teacher.

Agreed.

Having the images doesn't help as young children will struggle to visualise the shapes that the diagrams represent, and counting the faces and edges etc. doesn't help as not all are visible.

The best you could do with it would be to find objects that are these shapes and count the faces, edges and vertices.

Tbh, I've been surprised at the level of work my dc have received over the years. Angles, fractions, decimals, areas etc starting from yr2 and 3. They do often keep going back to go over basics before swiftly moving on to more complicated stuff... some of which I don't remember doing before yr7.

It's been an eye opener over lockdown. I'm actually enjoy teaching mine maths now.

My Y2 child has done a similar exercise this term. She's at a fairly academic indie. This seems O.t.t for a 4 year old!

My concern, apart from the homework being completely inappropriate for reception aged children, would be the teachers lack of understanding about how young children learn.

This is completely inappropriate. You could try and fudge it by doing things like people have suggested, but it's still just busy work. I wouldn't bother.

@CreosoteQueen

Honestly I would refuse to accept homework for a 4 year old. They’re way too young to be working outside of school!

Yes, this.

Not read the full thread but my DC is in year 2 and only just started learning about vertices. That’s ridiculous for a 4 year old.
The reception teacher is a moron.

@asparalite

My concern, apart from the homework being completely inappropriate for reception aged children, would be the teachers lack of understanding about how young children learn.

Shouldn’t they be following some sort of curriculum?

My DD has similar homework this week so cylinders, prisms, sphere, cubes and cuboids. She's been talking about them all week actually and tests me if I know the correct answer. You'd be surprised at how much they've memorised from a week of talking about the same thing.

She's also in reception. They have to list some special things about each shape and try and find examples around the house then take a picture and add a voice recording.

@asparalite

My concern, apart from the homework being completely inappropriate for reception aged children, would be the teachers lack of understanding about how young children learn.

As a former EYFS teacher this would be my concern too. If any of my colleagues had set that work for a reception aged child I'd be having a discussion about their pedagogical understanding. If they set work similar to this consistently I'd probably take it to senior leadership as they obviously need further training on what appropriate EYFS activities look like.

My child is in reception, she come home this week and spoke of how they had learned about 3D shapes however her homework is still just to read a book she is sent home with.

We had a task like this last year in Reception when homeschooling. It’s not that hard!!

I had one munchkin (I'm a nanny) who had to learn and write about all the different kinds of clouds when he was in year 1. He was bloody 5 for God's sake, he couldn't even spell 'Cloud'!! What's the bloody point of wasting everybody's time and energy on homework at that age, when they need to be playing?! It's criminal.

We did 3d shapes as lessons in lockdown for reception class. The teacher thankfully wasn't focused on a worksheet - it was a lesson discussing the shapes, handling them, investigating properties.
Presumably this is a recap of work done in school already. Also only needs to write numbers.

As a former EYFS teacher this would be my concern too. If any of my colleagues had set that work for a reception aged child I'd be having a discussion about their pedagogical understanding. If they set work similar to this consistently I'd probably take it to senior leadership as they obviously need further training on what appropriate EYFS activities look like.

I suspect the school has some silly policy that every child must be set homework which is differentiated each week, with evidence in their books. The teacher has probably,t just printed the first thing they found online in their lunchtime the day they needed to set it, without checking too closely. I’ve done similar myself when massively stressed and overworked before. Not saying it’s ideal but I suspect the teacher is setting homework because she’s been told to rather than because she thinks it beneficial and hasn’t thought about it that closely.

And no, geometry hasn't "changed" you've probably just forgotten learning the descriptive terms.