My 1st grader (6 yr old) gets a packet of math everyday that ranges from 5-7 pages of homework daily. Does this seem like a lot? My oldest didn’t get any homework until 2nd grade and it was only 2 or so sheets.
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Definitely too much for a kid that young, even most high schoolers don’t get that much homework.
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Seems like too much in my opinion. I’m not a homework fan anyway, unless the kids need to study for a test.
Definitely too much my kiddo gets 2 sheets a week
repetition in math is crucial to learning - at that level there are maybe 8-10 problems on a page? it will pay off in the long term - we all had homework when we were kids!
To much for us. He gets 1 page a day and always has. Up to 5th grade.
My kids are 4th and 6th grade they don’t get homework
It’s supposed to be review. It shouldn’t take 30 min a page ir anything crazy. How many problems per page? The amount of pages isn’t a good gauge since we don’t know what it looks like. I thought at that age homework shoukd be like 20/25 min ? Best thing to do is ask what the teacher expectations are. “How long shoukd homework take for your class”? See what they say. They coukd be giving too much , it could be they are struggling early which is a good time to catch it. Pretty sure studies have shown homework isn’t super helpful .
Omg! Our first grader gets 2 pages of homework on the weekends only
My kids didn’t get home work till they got to highschool .if they wanted homework prior to that they would have to ask the teachers
Absolutely too much! Mine is in high school & hardly ever gets homework!
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That’s a lot but they’ll be a scholar
mines in grade 3 never had homework …
Maybe they aren’t finishing their class work? I would check with the teacher.
Any homework for a first grader is too much. I could get behind reading every night and maybe looking at vocab/spelling but that’s it. I don’t think elementary school kids should have hw unless it’s a special project.
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Our 1st grader’s teacher sends home a weekly math practice sheet to work on throughout the week and reading 15 min per night. 5 to 7 pages seems excessive for a 1st graders and I would definitely talk to the teacher about it.
My 3rd grader gets 2 pages on Tuesdays and Thursdays… 5-6 daily is excessive
My son got that much in 1st grade for math homework every day and also had weekly spelling homework on top of it where he had like 7 words and had to write a sentence for each one and then write each word so many times that took nearly all week to finish.
It should only be about a page or two of problems a week and maybe times tables too. They should only be learning about one area of maths a week so anything else is either too much or going too fast.
My sons in grade 1 he recently switched school as we moved he now gets no homework but at other school was getting online homework and paper homework daily I feel there should be a happy medium between the two
My 1st grader hardly ever had homework other than reading for 20mins & spelling words we practiced til Friday for the test. That’s too much
We got a packet like that but it came home monthly not daily.
I will start checking if that is actually homework or unfinished daily work.
5-7 pages might be too much depending on what are they doing and how many problems are in every page .
I don’t believe elementary kids should get any homework. Their teacher has 7-8 hours to do their job. Your child only has a few hours a day to be a kid, to play & connect with family. But their teacher takes that little time from them too. I’ve never made my children do homework unless it was stuff they didn’t do during class or make up stuff from being absent.
Too much. Before my daughter was homeschooled I loovveedd her 3rd grade teacher because she didn’t believe in homework. Kids are at school all day so aside from 30 min of reading she never assigned it. Too young for 6 hrs plus an hour or so at home
Wow, yes, that is waaayyy too much.
It does seem like a lot but I promise you in the long run it pays off. My girl loves math and is so stinking good at it