Homework, need a deegre in teaching to understand wording

[lexcat]

Is it just me or is it just my dd school.
The wording of the homework (Y1)is so complicating and long winded, often find my self ringing other parents or them ringing me for help.
What wrong with simple english with out the fancy wording.

Don't get homework in year 1 apart from reading and a few spellings. Can you give us an example though?

Brace youself - it can only get harder! I've just finished helping dd do year 6 homework!

Ok how about this weeks
Ask everyone at home what is their favourite fruit/breakfast
Make a pictogram of the results. You could choose 3 things each to make the data/info bigger.

Sorry but I'm lost on that and dd is gOing to be learning about it next week. Great get the parents to teach them first what a great idea. NOT

Fruit my family like (4 in family)

Tomato
Apple
Blueberry
Lemon

You can have more than four different fruits, but I ran out of different coloured emoticons

I hate homework.

Attilathemum - what a fab, fab name! I am d deeply apple

Lexcat, I've had the same problem too. The lack of clarity on worksheets can be shocking. I usually just guess and assume that if ds has done something approximate to the topic, written some words, worked out some maths, etc, then that's ok at this stage.

As a teacher myself, I'm really surprised that the school is asking your dd to do something at home before it has been covered in school.

The whole point of homework at this age is to reinforce concepts taught at school. This means that parents get an idea of what their dd/ds is doing, and also helps to foster independence and instill confidence.

Perhaps you could have a word with the teacher and explain your concerns?

Also, if I was setting a pictogram as homework, I would provide a blank grid for the children to fill in, rather than expect them or their parents to make one themselves.

As homework goes this is not to bad. I am lucky in the fact that last weeks was collecting data. DD loved this a took to the next stage and draw bar graphs to show her findings. So a pictogram is easy but then a again she find maths homework very easy and offen does extra.
But I know she is not the norm. Not easy trying to teach something to a child if your not sure of it yourself.
The "choose three things each to make the data/info bigger", but it's just gone click and I think I've got it.
Please all I ask for is some clarity, it the same some weeks with her english homework.