Notice for homework projects in Year 1

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Dd's school always sends a newsletter home on Tuesdays. This week and last week the newsletter contained details of Year 1's homework project for that week.

Today the instruction is to get an egg box and fill it with various things to demonstrate hard, soft, shiny, dull, rough and smooth, and label it up with the name of the object and its description. It has to be completed and into school ... tomorrow. They have waited for the newsletter to communicate this with parents rather than putting a slip in the bookbags ... which could (should?) have been done before today.

Of course, I didn't have any eggs, so no egg box ...

Am I expecting too much to think that this is too short notice? Last week's task was to find a baby photograph and make a note of dd's length and weight at birth, which was OK, but for something as specific as this, aren't they taking the pee? It only seems to be Year 1 who do things this way.

Or is this par for the course in Year 1?

Well you are doing better than me because |I would have no idea where to start looking for dd's length at birth. It is in some old maternity notes somewhere, but where?

Also eggs go straight into the egg compartment of the fridge as soon as I buy them and the box thrown.

I would expect a week to complete extension work (spellings, extra sums etc) and 2-3 weeks for a project. Positive I am not going to get that sort of notice but due to my other commitments I would NOT be able to help dd complete homework inthat short amount of time so if it happens, it will remain undone.

That was the problem, JNM - we're not big on eggs anyway, and when we do bother they go straight into the egg compartment. At least I was able to get hold of some ... working parents might have been hard pushed and would be justified in feeling their children were being penalised.

I know this one was only a small project and probably isn't all that important in the long run, but surely even small things merit more notice than this? It doesn't bode well for communication.

I agree that it's stupidly short notice, but surely the egg box is incidental - it's just a receptacle. I'd have found hard/soft/shiny/whatever stuff and just shoved it in a bag or something.

No idea of dds' length at birth, though. They were never measured!

Oh, and in Yr 1 my dd (now just starting Yr 2) had nothing like this... just reading her book and learning some spellings.

Exactly. Take tonight for example. I picked dd up from after school care at 5.00pm. Dh was teaching at home so we went to my mum's for tea, got back at 7pm when it was a quick wash, brush teeth, story and into bed for 7.30pm whilst also seeing to the needs of 2 year old ds.