School projects and holiday plans

[emkana]

So if your Year 3 child was given a project to complete until the 21 April, and you would be away for two out of those three and a half weeks due to the holidays coming up, what would you do? Try and get it done before going away, as stressful as that might be? Speak to the teacher?

Adn do you think it's fair that tasks like this are given that make an impact on school holidays?

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Yes is fair. I would do it before or during the holiday.

What is it? Too hard for the kid to do mostly alone.

You're supposed to pick a climate (eg rainforest) and write at least six pages about vegetation, housing etc etc

First project ever so yes too hard to do independently.

Just sit down and do it and get it done!

Go to the library and get books out and do not procrastinate!!

I think a project is a great idea for holidays personally, but then I am one of those sad people who tells DS he has homework when he doesnt!!

How long will the project take? Can some of it be done on holiday?

Read your reply to Flum - you should be able to do this in 1.5 weeks. In a day, really. There are loads of web resources available.

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Are we talking 6 a4 pages of typing, or can that involve pictutes, maps etc

I would do a little every day (half an hour or so) before you go.

I would have a look on line.

Easy enough to structre it.

Which habitat
Where would you find this habitat
Discription of the weather in this habitat
Human impact
Animals
Plants
Summary.

An A4 page on each shouldn't take more than 30-40 minutes?

Google kids + ecosystems or kids + biomes and you'll get loads of resources.

emkana let me go against the flow

it's ill-thought out, there'll be so much parental input what's the point and frankly rainforest my aunt fanny

like someone said: do it in a day and forget about it
it probably won't even be marked

I'll go against the flow as well, in that I don't like children having to do HW during holidays. I think that sounds a big project for a Y3 child, Emkana, hardly the sort of thing they can do by themselves. When this issue has cropped up with my dc I've told school that we won't be doing it, and they've always been fine with that. And ime, when children do do these projects the end result hardly get looked at anyway, which is incredibly disheartening for them.

My boys tend to quite like these project-type homeworks, and don't view them as 'work'.

For me and the boys I try and get 'work' over and done with at the end of term, so that it doesn't impinge on holidays.

This holiday ds1 had a massive science homework, which he did at the end of term. Then he has a 'write a story' and an optional (!) project on the Egyptians. We were away last week, but we took the laptop and he was writing in the evenings or quiet moments and he's almost finished the story - two more chapters apparently.
(It's 3,500 words already but it is very good.)

Once that's done and dusted he'll do the Egyptians project.