How much homework do your Year 1 DC get each week?

[RTKangaMummy]

My DS is grown up now (so I might be remembering through rose tinted spectacles) but my best friend has a DD in year 1 (5 years old)

It seems to me that she has lots of homework but is it what is normal now?

She seems to have a new project to do every weekend, these seem to be of various levels of time consuming,

I am not sure how much she is supposed to do herself and how much "help" she is supposed to have from parents

My DS used to do reading, spellings to learn and number bonds etc each week but this seems much more involved but I don't know if her DD is having the "normal" or "usual" amount for year 1

Sorry didn't write that properly

It seems that her DD has more than some other Year 1 DC but the same as others

Reading ten mins a day. Thats it. HIgh performing state school. They encourage any thing that involves counting, reading etc at home but up to you how you do it

I thought all research showed that other than reading their is little point chasing tired 5 year olds to do loads of home work! They are 5

sirfred: But the kids know (as in they know the rough performance of all their peers) so they can just ask their kids surely?

Without digressing too much, the kids don't know - they are in different groups for so many things: reading, maths, topic work, French. music (not instrument lesson) etc that to them it's just another group activity.
The only thing that it is quite obvious for is swimming.

ridinghiginapril DD certainly knows the rough ability of everyone in her class, I simply cannot see how anyone doesn't know their peers strengths and weaknesses as you work alongside them.

I can see how they believe they know their peers strengths and weaknesses but from years of experience I know that they are often wrong

My ds gets:
Nightly reading
10 spellings each week
Online maths(30 mins a week)
Specific maths to practise(number bonds, times tables) (30mins a week)
Fortnightly extended reading/writing task or maths task.
Termly big task.

It's a large amount that doesn't always get done.

I can see how they believe they know their peers strengths and weaknesses but from years of experience I know that they are often wrong

Sure, judging ability is done terribly by everyone, it's not a skill people do well. We're only talking enough about recognising that the "green" table is the one with all the best mathmeticians and the "cube" table is the one with the strongest readers etc.

And if there isn't a green table? I don't have groups or group tables just a nice horseshoe seating arrangement with pupils free to sit where they want.

mrz then they won't necessarily know, although they'll sitll know what challenges the various kids face in learning I'm sure, but my comment was about recognising which grouping was which when there was a group.

I think it's probably easier to identify those who struggle in class

20 minutes of maths or English once a week (they alternate), to be done over the weekend. Plus one school book to read a week (though she reads home books every day). I love that she has this little, it gives us more time for drama, dance, swimming etc.

Far too bloody much imo!

Y1 dd has nightly reading, pluses ten spellings, 17 sums, a times table, a sheet of maths problems and a piece of 'topic homework' each week. The 'topic homework' is things with plant a seed and measure it's growth, or measure the weather daily.

I would much prefer it was reduced.

My youngest is almost 6, she's in P2 (NI). She gets homework on a Mon to be in on a Fri. 1 or 2 books to be read over the week, a maths sheet - this week it's revision on money - adding 2 sums and giving back change from 10p or 20p, and some kind of literacy - again this week it was a word search and putting the missing words into a sentence - picking the word that made the most sense. They don't have spellings until they're a bit older.