she's two and a half... best approach for homework!

[hootintootin]

It has begun.
An A4 sheet with 2 pictures. A stripey sock and a spotty one.

Options:

1. Hand her the paper and let her loose .
2. As 1 but place her next to selection of pens/crayons.
3. As 2 but stay and ask her what she's doing, try to chat about colours patterns

1. As 3 but encourage choice of colours so that the stripes repeat red/blue/red/blue etc
2. Photocopy it , have several attempts and send in best

What's the point of it at this age anyway?!!

Don't do it.

Number 2 or 3 depending on how much you want to do

Otherwise option 1.

Serious?

Are you at a selective pre prep nursery or is this a piss take?!

Eat it

or is that just my two year old?

If it was my homework I'd get the glitter out, do a collage, make a booklet about patterns in nature, have a field trip to the laundry basket to sort socks and maybe chant some rhymes smelly socks /colours ( if I knew any) . Yes I was a swot at school! However , I don't want to put her off learning/ do everything for her ... Where do I draw the line

Ha! Might eat it when I run out of cake! No it's just the local playgroup! She started going last week just a couple of mornings.

Give her the paper and pencils/crayons, say "let's do some colouring", sit back and see what happens.

homework though at 2? In what mad world is this? It's just a bit of colouring surely?

Ah, just seen last post. I doubt it's seriously 'homework', probably just a sheet they've given her because she likes colouring, or because they've got spare copies!

Its got her name written on and she is to take it back on Thursday! I doubt it'll get marked!

Ignore it

1. Ignore it.

Do an 'Anarchy' symbol across the whole thing in red. Hand sheet to them with a flourish.

What's the benefit in ignoring it? ( besides leaving time for colouring in some other picture / creating further havoc ) I'm just wondering about best way to begin the great hwk battle/adventure/process

Option 1 or 2.

Anything else is cheating.

The benefit in ignoring it is that you are not engaging in the ludicrous practice of making 2 year olds do homework. The 'great homework adventure' should not be starting at 2.

:(

(I would honestly let her wipe her arse with it)

Don't consider it homework. She neither should be considering homework.
Just let her do what she wants on the paper and give it in when she is playing. She won't know she's done hw then.

Ffs

Wow - 2 and a half and homework. is this a state or private nursery??

Totally pointless

oh local playgroup...

I'd be tempted to do something amazing or something not v amazing.

Just let her do whatever the heck she wants with it, even if that involves glitter!

Put paper on table while DC in highchair.
Give DC crayons.
DC wants a different colour crayon.
DC chews crayon. Crayon removed. DC whines and is given different crayon.
DC flings crayons on floor. Box of crayons removed.
DC flings sheet of paper on floor.
Sheet of paper lands on lunch dropped on floor earlier.
Paper now has decoration. Simples.