{"id":1535,"date":"2013-10-03T12:10:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T16:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2016-01-18T20:53:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T01:53:53","slug":"parentwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/03\/parentwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Parentwork"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honeybun’s kindergarten homework regimen started this week.\u00a0 Let me start my rant (and yes, this is going to be rant) by saying any work assigned to be done at home by a 5 year-old kindergartner should not be called homework but rather \u201cparentwork\u201d.\u00a0 This is because even my \u201cadvanced\u201d kindergartner is completely incapable of doing her homework without my full attention.<\/p>\n

Monday she had 2 tasks. The first was to complete a #5 handwriting sheet which she also had to last week.\u00a0 Her teacher (whom I do really like, I think) was not satisfied with how Honeybun\u00a0did it the first time so sent it home again.\u00a0 The second task was for her to write her phone number, address and birthday.\u00a0 I am not allowed to do any writing, spelling, cutting or gluing for her homework which is fine but after the #5 debacle, I\u2019ve realized the teacher is going to expect proper handwriting so the two tasks took us an hour and half.\u00a0 What I could have completed in less than 5 minutes (probably less than 1 minute even) took us an hour and a half.\u00a0 An hour and a half that I sat at the table with her, erasing, correcting and explaining how to better form her numbers and letters.\u00a0 An hour and a half that Sugarplum napped and Doodle fussed.\u00a0 An hour and a half that Honeybun\u00a0would have usually spent napping and I would have usually spent resting.\u00a0 An hour and half of rest that I really needed.\u00a0 An hour and a half.\u00a0 For a five year-old’s homework.<\/p>\n

Tuesday she had to write 10 words: 5 beginning with M and 5 ending in m.\u00a0 This sounds like an easy enough task, until 40 minutes later.\u00a0 We got tripped up on this one because the first words she chose were \u201cmonkey\u201d and \u201cmouse\u201d and since I\u2019m not allowed to help with spelling it took her awhile to work it out.\u00a0 I\u2019m also still being very particular about her handwriting.\u00a0 When she concentrates and writes carefully, her handwriting is pretty neat but when she tries to hurry and forgets the \u201crules\u201d (like all lowercase letters need to be below the dotted line on her paper) her handwriting is very messy.\u00a0 After the first few words of erasing and trying again, she finally started to remember to write below the dotty line and luckily her words ending in m were \u201cbam,\u201d \u201cJam,\u201d \u201cam,\u201d \u201cmom,\u201d and \u201cma\u2019am\u201d and she breezed right through them!<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday she had to write 3 sentences, 1 each using the words \u201cthe,\u201d \u201clike,\u201d and \u201cI\u201d.\u00a0 I gave her 30 minutes to do it since Wednesday is ballet day and she needs to rest before going to class and time is limited!\u00a0 I was not as picky about her writing as perhaps I should have been and gave up the fight over whether or not her teacher would know \u201cbdin\u201d was building due to the time limit.\u00a0 Even 30 minutes of homework is too much for a 5 year-old, I think (really, homework is completely developmentally INappropriate for kindergartners).\u00a0 Though she could have easily finished in the allotted time if she could remember the simple writing rules from day to day!<\/p>\n

Today is her math homework.\u00a0 Two workbook pages and she has to draw and label all the shapes she knows.\u00a0 This should be fun.\u00a0 At least today is our free night, nothing for any of us outside the house so if we get too tired\/frustrated before nap, we can finish before and\/or after dinner.\u00a0 This is why I refused homework in VPK last year (see\u00a0“Battle of Mommy vs. Educator”<\/a>) but unfortunately not doing homework is not an option when she\u2019s being graded.\u00a0 I guess we just need to get more efficient at getting it done.<\/span><\/p>\n

As hubby said when I angry texted him 20 minutes into Monday\u2019s homework extravaganza (if only I\u2019d known\u2026): \u201cYay for homework.\u00a0 It\u2019s reallllly helping our country close the gap.\u201d\u00a0 Indeed sir, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honeybun’s kindergarten homework regimen started this week.\u00a0 Let me start my rant (and yes, this is going to be rant) by saying any work assigned to be done at home by a 5 year-old kindergartner should not be called homework but rather \u201cparentwork\u201d.\u00a0 This is because even my \u201cadvanced\u201d kindergartner is completely incapable of doing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-home-school-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10035,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/10035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}