To just want a worksheet homework

[OnlyFoolsnMothers]

I’m so over the creative homework’s, it’s homework for adults. My 6yr olds homework this week was to create a song about the fire on London! No way can she do that- it’s like pulling teeth- so I spent my evening after work thinking of words to rhyme with fire.
The week before was to design a book cover.

Can we not just go back to some lines of spelling, a worksheet of sums…please.
Anyone else have this/ feel like this?

I feel your pain - youngest has ADHD and he could not do creative/open-ended work at primary school, even though he is an imaginative kid. Every now and then the topic would be something that grabbed him but usually I had to almost feed him what to say and he added the occasional word!

They're only onerous if you think you need to compete.

I encourage my non-creative son to do all the homework himself, even the models (the latest one is made from Lego). Some look absolute shite, but they're his, he is proud of them, and they're a real reflection of his ability.

I do not help. I do offer suggestions (e.g. on the recent make a model of... I suggested using his Lego rather than elaborate paper mache work).

Teach her to play London’s burning on the recorder @OnlyFoolsnMothers … that’ll show them🤣

I refuse to get involved with the actual crafting if it's craft. The teachers need to know the standard my child can produce not mine

Homework for primary school children is completely pointless (other than reading with them which I am sure you'd do anyway). Just don't bother.

Oh, this is fun.

There was a fire in London and it was hot
It burned for days, it burned a lot.
We needed help to put it out
Bring some water! we had to shout
The flames were yellow and orange and red.
Let’s put them out! everyone said.

Probably get flamed here, but personally, my kids rarely do much of their homework, unless it's something that really interests them and they want to do it. I don't think primary school kids should have homework. School is enough at that age - or at least it should be with a decent teacher. The odd spelling and maths homework, fine. Reading we do at home regularly anyway. Daft 'projects' and endless lists of homework on multiple different apps, week after week - no. They need time at home with family, time to be kids, have downtime and spend time exploring their interests outside of school. I certainly wouldn't be helping my kids with their homework, bar the odd little input or answering questions like 'how do you spell this word again' or 'does this look ok?'. I don't see the point in them doing it at all if I'm going to hover over them or pretty much do the whole thing for them.

Now if they want to come and ask me about something they are interested in, I will happily sit for hours helping them learn about that. Education is so much more than school and homework.

There was a fire in London and it was hot
It burned for days, it burned a lot.
We needed help to put it out
Bring some water! we had to shout
The flames were yellow and orange and red.
Let’s put them out! everyone said.
Otherwise we'll all be dead.

Acrostics are always easy

F ire fire burning bright
I n London with all the houses packed tight
R un for the water, try not to choke
E verywhere black from the terrible smoke

In 1666 there was a fire,
The people felt it dire.
The causes were vague,
But it ended the plague
Here is the poem you require.

DD is 6 and in primary 3 in Scotland and she refuses homework unless it's copying words, doing sums, worksheets etc

One last week was to design a poster and she refused as she wanted to do her sums. I'd rather she done the academic work than the colouring as she does lots of that at home anyway

Really interested in the comments saying that homework primary age is pointless - is that because it is too much at this age?

My niece has homework every night of the week which consists of spellings, writing, maths, verbal / nonverbal reasoning plus reading.

The worst bit is when we have to think of sentences to demonstrate understanding the words from the spellings - she spends more time on deciding the sentence than actually writing them 🤦

The engines came, the water flows
Quickly, quickly, bring that hose.

Agree. My eldest DC hated creative homework so it was basically homework for me. I did get a dojo point for my ww2 bomb shelter made in a shoebox...#proud

But what we know of as a 'poem' is very different to what they think of - so if you are getting too involved she will feel the pressure that it's not 'right' and clam up.

Just step right back and praise every squiggle like it's Shakespeare and voila, she's written a poem to the best of her ability.

Don't do it for her and I'd actually say don't even do it with her. Just ask her a few leading questions to get the cogs turning and then pootle about folding washing or something.

If you do it, the teachers have no idea their lesson failed to hit the mark!!!

Writing a song is a ridiculous homework for a six year old...

The engines came, the water flows
Quickly, quickly, bring that hose.

Hose hadn't been invented and there wasn't even a fire brigade. The water didn't flow as the Thames was really low which didn't help the situation.

Unhelpful.

hilarious though. Made me laugh.

Probably get flamed here

bazinga

Fire
Burning
London burns
Bread

I agree with you OP. I'm old and have 3 DC and the older ones used to get small amounts of what I would call 'proper' homework - so a reading comprehension and a maths worksheet. To be handed in.

Now youngest gets 'creative' homework, pick a (pointless) task from a grid, upload a photo of it, and then it gets 'celebrated', not even marked (or corrected) if it's a written piece. I despair.

YABU, presumably this was based on stuff she has done at school. I just asked my 6 year old
"fire of London, fire of London,
it burnt the houses down, right down to the ground.
It started in a bakery but spread all around.
People passed the buckets down, people passed the buckets down,
they put it out."

Job done. You are making work for yourself unnecessarily.

Reading this thread, I've just had flashbacks to when my dds maths homework was to design and make a board game featuring numbers and sums....

I think your six year old must be a budding song writer!

I was a Primary teacher. When my youngest son was in year 2 his teacher ( at that point young and child free) set a piece of homework for every single day of the 2 week Easter holiday. I should have just said that we hadn't had time but I was a single parent and I felt judged so we ploughed through it. The worst part was that he gave it in in the same wallet as his reading book. After a week of not having the book sent home I went into the classroom to get it. It was buried in a huge pile of other childrens book bags all stuffed with homework. Not a scrap of it had even been looked at. I absolutely understood that she hadn't had time to look at it but , if you aren't going to even pretend you've looked, then don't set the bloody stuff.
She also sent a letter home one Monday asking the parents to provide a Viking costume the next morning. Dear God. I had to explain that parents needed more notice than a night. It was pre Internet so we couldn't even order something for next day delivery.
I avoided giving homework wherever possible. Its pointless and just adds to the stress families are already under and it achieves nothing. Far better to read a book your child wants to read or sit and build something with Lego with a bit of children's telly in the background and just chat. Colouring in a worksheet is just an OFSTED box ticking exercise.