DD is in reception, fairly bright and loving it. I am struggling with the homework though.
There's a fair volume of it - though I have spoken to other parents and they've said that they too were surprised and it takes other children 2-3 hours as well which seems a lot to me, per week, at only 4.
As part of it, they have 6 words a week that they have to be able to sound out, read, and spell.
DD can sound the letters, but not put them together. She says they don't do it at school and they don't get tested on them at school. I try and show her how the sounds join up to make the words but when we get them out again the next day, she often can't do them again. I think the ones she has learnt, she's learning by rote/ sight. Once she's got it, she gets sounding/ reading the whole word/ spelling out loud/ writing the spelling all at once iyswim. I've tried reading about phonics and how it's taught, as I read by sight and was reading before I started school, but I don't think I'm helping her.
What else should I do? Yes, I'm a first time mum, for a few reasons always think I'm going to be judged and found lacking.