DD has just turned 9 and is in Primary 5 (not sure what the English equivalent of that is, but it is a class of 8&9 year olds)
Since her first year at school they have been given homework almost every night and this is something I agree with and am happy for DD to do.
For the past 2 years they have been given 4 or 6 words most nights, they have to write the word out 4 times, look it up in a dictionary, write down the meaning and then put the word in a sentence. On a Friday they get these words in a spelling test.
At the start of this term DD's new teacher dropped the dictionary work, as she said it was too hard
So last week was parents night and since parents night it has been decided that the homework is just too hard now (despite it being what they have been doing since they were 6) so now each night they can pick to do one of the following.
Write each word once using bubble writing and colour in.
Write each word once using a different colour for each letter (like a rainbow)
Write each word once but colour vowels red
Write each word once but colour consonants blue
Write the words in alphabetical order.
Does this not seem like a bit of a waste of time? And a total turn around from what has been done previously. I would rather DD done no homework than write rainbow words.
So I would be interested to hear what others in her age group are doing.
(Obviously she gets other homework too, maths once a week and various things to do on topics etc)