Hi, my question initially is how many times a week do you all (honestly) do reading/spellings at home with a 6 year old?
We are managing 3 times a week at present, which according to the school is just not enough. We live rurally, both myself and my husband run our own businesses, I am always there to pick the kids up from school however, so it's not that I don't make time for them in general life. We do also have farm animals of our own, my children are very much having an educational life, but not necessarily academic. We try, we really do.. with both children's hobbies, swimming, football etc. And us trying to find time to have hobbies ourselves, I don't think 3 nights a week is unreasonable as otherwise she would come home from school, sit and do her homework, go swimming, eat tea then it's time for bed. And I'll be honest I do resent having to actually teach her her spellings as her school haven't even gone through them with her. I.e. this week we've had "knee" and other silent "k" sounds but school hadn't actually shown her that that was a thing.. sorry for ranting but I'm sick of DD coming home upset as school have told her she/we aren't doing enough. They didn't swap her books last week or even look at her reading record, to know how much we read with her, just piled more pressure on.