How much homework does your Year 2 child get?

[tessieb]

My 7 year old has reading and spelling to do. He also gets maths homework once a week - however, this seems to be getting more and more. For the last few weeks he has been getting 5 photocopied A4 sheets of maths homework. So far, we've spent 20 minutes on part of one sheet - we did just over half of it and ds had had enough. And there are still 4 more to go!!!

I think this much homework is excessive and I'd love to know what other Y2 children have to do each week.

Thanks.

Only ever one sheet of maths (and I think one sheet of science), plus the spelling and reading. Ds in Year 4 still isn't getting more than this.

When I taught Year 2 last year, they had reading every night, spellings to learn every week, times tables to practise as much as poss and then a maths homework on a Friday to be done by Monday, but it was usually a game linked to that week's learning.

I expected my class to spend about 20 minutes on their maths...I think you should have a word with their teacher about the lenght of time it is taking.

reading (very little) and spelling (very simple) each night, with a language sheet (again very simple/easy) and once a week a maths sheet (again short/simple).. we have been asked by the school not to spend more than 20 mins on hw in general, per night.

DD is in Y2. Typical week:

Monday - 6 spellings to learn (for Thursday)
Tuesday - reading
Wednesday-Friday - written or drawing homework based on work done that week; each piece takes 5-10min; if written they can write more than bare minimum so may take longer but doesn't have to.

e.g. this week:

Monday - 6 spellings
Tuesday - Reading
Wednesday - 10 maths sums; adding 1, 5 or 10 to a 3 digit number type sums.
Thursday - find a photo of you from your past; bring to school to write about
Friday - write about something that happen to you in "your history" such as when you were a baby or toddler.

DD2 is in year 2. She daily brings home a reading book and has 8 spelling words a week. She also has about 200-300 commonly used words to learn to read and spell by the end of the year (which she already has). She is supposed to write an entry in a reading journal at least once a week (and colour a picture as well) and generally gets one maths sheet and one literacy assignment per weekend.

my 6 yr old gets:

15 spellings for test on friday;

2 sides of numeracy on Thursday;

reading every night

and prep work for his first confession (is at catholic school)

My ds is also 7 and in year 2. He gets:

Reading book, which is changed Monday and Friday (though nobody minds him keeping it longer if he hasn't finished it as they're often long)

Spelling test - 10 words given on Monday, and tested on Friday.

A piece of homework to do over the weekend - this is very variable. Once it was covering an exercise book in a wintery theme, getting as creative as they liked. Once a 'project' on Antarctica (over half term) (thank god for wikipedia). This afternoon he was estimating how many cupfuls of water it would take to fill a tupperware container, then finding out the real number - much splashy pouring with him standing on a chair at the kitchen sink.

I'm really happy with the amount he gets, because it's almost always fun and generally gets done in less than 20 mins. Yours sounds very excessive. Your poor ds.

have just remembered he also has to do a book review once a week as well.

dd is in Year 2 and is 6 years old

she gets:

10 spellings a week (tested on Monday)
a new reading book a day
one piece of homework a week in various subjects - linked to whatever they're doing at the time

2 reading books a week (ort), a list of 10 spellings to learn, with between 3-5 additional words for if they feel able to tackle more, which they are tested on, and another sheet of homework for at the weekend.

we probably spend 20 mins learning spellings, 20 mins on the weekednd homework, and read school books 2-3 nights a week, on the other nights she reads her own books. anymore than that, and you just wouldn't be able to fit it all in around swimming lessons/rainbows etc, plus kids do need a bit of downtime too. some schools do give out way too much homework.

Reading book changed as and when it's read , spellings every Thursday and a maths homework to be done over the weekend.

My ds hates doing homework and it's a struggle to get him to do it. I aim for short sessions and try to make it as fun as possible. So far, we haven't managed to complete 5 sheets of maths as I think it is far too much. The sheet we've been doing today is division facts with 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 10s. Ds found it really difficult and got a little upset which is when I decided enough was enough.

His school is one of the highest achieving in our area, and I think the pressure is on for his class to get high scores in the KS1 sats. I dread to think what it will be like nearer May when the SATs take place. Ds is a bright child, but I'm concerned he isn't enjoying school as much as he used to.

Apart from reading, nothing whatsoever. No maths, no spellings. And this is a school with very very good KS1 SATs results. The OP's school's approach sounds excessive to me.

tessieb - that sounds way too difficult for the average Y2 child. They won't have covered that if following the normal NC stuff that's for sure.

DD is at a prettya cademi prep school and gets nothing like that. Research has shown that spelling tests don;t make a difference to spelling ability over all too. I am so glad we get 10 min max. TBH it ought to be less.

4 times table def not in the standard Y2 syllabus.

Oh well.. my son's class are a bunch of slackers. He gets one reading book a week, although it hasn't been changed for three weeks and numeracy and literacy home set on Friday to be handed in on Wednesday. This week he spent 15 minutes on numeracy and about 45 mintues on literacy.

He hasn't yet had any spellings, his school believes that learning spellings for a test is a waste of time.

I know, Hulababy. Think his teacher treats the class more like KS2. Ds found it very difficult. I tried to make it a bit more fun and practical by using crazy bones to help as there was no way Ds could work it out mentally.

I'm going to talk to his teacher tomorrow.

Ds1 (Y2) gets 10 spellings a week, two books to read, Literacy homework every Friday (this week ten sentences where they had to insert an adverb), and Maths every other Friday (doesn't take long and is usually in the form of a game involving 10ps and 1ps).

DS got time homework this week and for the first time struggled will have to do that more with him!

My daughter had 3 maths sheets over the whole of year 2! She read normally 4-6 books a week (only changed when she wanted to) and 10 spellings to learn and tested when she was ready. This was in a state infant school . She now goes to a private girls school and gets even less. When they are at home they should be relaxing - she did not learn any times tables last year and has now mastered tables up to 7 in under 3 weeks (and understands them.) Your homework seems excessive for year 2.

Reading every night.

One worksheet per week, with a literacy exercise on one side and a numeracy exercise on the other.

Received on Thursday, to be handed in any time before the following Thursday.

No spellings, thanks goodness, and oddly enough, her spelling is improving much faster than it did in Yr1, when they did get spellings