Parents of 2nd/3rd graders

[tiggerlover]

I have a question for parents of 2nd and 3rd graders. How much homework do your kids get, how often do they get it and what kind of homework are they getting?

Thanks!

 

[snoopy]

Well I have a 3rd grader. He has about 1/2 hour worth of homework each night. What the homework consists of varies from day to day, but mostly its math (right now he is working with fractions), and spelling. He is also required to read 30 minutes each night. They don't get homework on the weekends.

 

[kaseyC]

I have a 2nd grader and she gets her Homework packet at the beginning of each week and it usually has 2 assignments per day. It usually takes about a 1/2 an hour to 45 mins to complete. She is also required to read at least 15mins a night, 7 days a week and we have a reading log to turn in every monday.

 

[elgerber]

My dd is in 2nd grade, and has had homework twice this year. I don't get this school, she never ever had homework in 1st grade either. When my son was in these grades at our old school he always had homework. It was 1 sheet per week in K, 2 per week in 1st, 3 in 2nd, M-Th in 3rd and then it got fairly heavy by 4th.

Erika

 

[shelbyjosh]

My DD is in 3rd grade. On Monday she gets a math homework sheet (due by Weds) and on Wed she gets an English homework sheet due by Friday. She does have weekly spelling tests. That is the extent of her homework!!

 

[tar heel]

In third grade, my son had about an hour a night -- spelling each, either math or reading and independent reading 25 minutes.

 

[cindysteve]

My second grader gets about 1/2 hour per night. She also need to do 200 minutes of reading per month. There are incentives awarded for more minutes. She does get weekend homework as well.

 

[BriarfoxinWA]

My second grader has a reading log that must be turned in every day. No reading or homework required on weekends. He also has either math, spelling, or english each night which takes him about 20 minutes.

 

[Beth E. (NJ)]

My dd is in 3rd grade. Some nights it takes her almost 2 hours to do her homework but she tends to dawdle. She gets homework Monday through Thursday. They get a packet on Monday of each week with their spelling words then they have a variety of assignments to do in the packet and it is due on Friday. (They usually have to complete 10 points worth of work and the assignements vary in value so they can pick a few to equal ten points.)

They also have math nightly -- usually 12 problems. Lately they have been doing long division and then they have to check their work so 12 problems become 24. They occasionally have social studies or spanish to do as well. Plus they are learning the recorder and they are supposed to practie it.

 

[padams]

My 2nd grader has homework on Mon-Thurs. nights. It's usually 1 math worksheet that takes less than 5 minutes (his school uses the Everyday Math program) and something to do with his 12 weekly spelling words (i.e. put them in a sentence, write a story with the, etc.). The spelling usually takes DS about 10 minutes. He is also expected to read either independently or some nights, to a parent for 15 minutes.

 

[DSNY FN]

Our daughter is in 2nd grade in french Immersion and she has about 10 to 20 minutes a few days a week. The teacher gives them time every day to do the work thus not having to bring it home other than some reading stuff they do 3 days a week that we need to go over with her and sign off on so the teacher knows it is being done.

 

[Gupsmom]

My son is in 1st but I have asked the teachers what to expect for next year...out of pure curiosity. I was told 2nd grade homework is the same as first. My son has a very short (less than 5 min) math assignment and usually a small spelling assignment (again, about 5 minutes). We also read for 15 minutes a night.

I was told, by other mom's, that homework increases in 3rd grade.

Jess

 

[Disney Ella]

My DDs are in second grade and they usually have a math sheet and a reading/English sheet every night, which depending on what they have to do takes anywhere from 15 minutes to a half-hour. They also have spelling homework (have to write the words in sentences, etc.) They also have to write five sentences (selected by the teacher) correctly each week, using the correct punctuation and spelling and study for that over the weekend.

 

[Cindy B]

My 3rd grader homework varies. Sometimes it can be 10 minutes, and sometimes its about an hour. Usually its math sheets, language art sheets, and problem solving.

There are long term projects as well. He occasionally gets a weeks to do a "project". This project is either a weather chart, a newspaper article summary, or a problem solving activity.

He was also assigned a literature project that can take about a week to complete (at a small slower pace)

 

[RitaZ.]

My DS (2nd grade) gets homework M-T; it usually includes math sheets, reviewing spelling words and writing stories. They do get projects assigned to them, usually a week to complete it depending on the complexity of it. Two weeks ago, they had to come up with an original invention, they were given a week for that.

At his old school, he used to get quite a bit of homework, but the school didn't perform well on the FCAT. At his new school, he does get homework, but it's manageable and his school performs very well on the FCAT (always an A school).

 

[buzzlady]

DS is in 2nd grade. He has a math worksheet (both sides of paper) nightly along with another assignment that involves his spelling words. It could be writing them in a sentence, using the spelling word and rhyming it with a word in a sentence, proofreading a paragraph and picking out the mis-spelled words (always their spelling words) and correcting them. He also has a monthly project. This month it is a diorama. He was assigned a dionosaur and has to do a 4 paragraph report and a diorama on this dinosaur.

 

[JESW]

DS9 is in the third grade. On monday they get a math packet with 4 pages of homework. The can choose to do one page a night or 4 pages the first night or whatever else as long as it's all done by friday. They just started the unit on geometry.

One monday & tuesday they have 2 pages in their spelling books. Again, they can do the 2 pages on mon. and then the next 2 pages on tues., or they can do all 4 on monday. The pages have various assignments that have to do with their spelling list that week.

On wednesday night they get a double-sided spelling sheet with more tasks for their spelling words.

Friday is the spelling test.

Sometimes there is a math test on thursday.

Right now they also have a book report that is due in a couple of weeks. They have/had a month to do the work - this time around the book has to be a biography - DS chose a book on Walt Disney.

Right now DS' homework averages about a half-hour a night, depending on what he chooses to do. I need to sit with him to work on the book report (he is almost done reading the book) and that will increase his time. Last book report he was up to two hours some nights.

My DS is also a dawdler and has other issues we are dealing with so some nights homework is a disaster. I should have earned a medal for getting him through the chapter on multiplication!

So far no homework over the weekends or over vacation weeks.

He is supposed to read every night and I think he does. Writing is what we have our major issues with.

Jill

 

[Otto's Doll]

HI Debbi,
Kari (3rd grade) has 15 spelling words every week, and has a different assignment each night with them. (ABC order, 3x each and sentences) as well as a math sheet or language arts paper. It takes her about 20 minutes if she actually does it or longer if she dawdles. Both my kids have to read 30 minutes a day at home, but both mine love to read, so usually spend a lot longer than that. (To get some reading time in, we extend bedtime by 30 minutes, but the rule is that they MUST read during that time).
Is Tyler excited about coming home?

 

[Kallison]

Our school district subscribes to the 10 min. per grade - 3rd grade = 30 min. If they don't have any I make some up, maybe not the 40 to 50 min. they are supposed to have.

 

[wendyl]

My DS is in 2nd grade and every Friday a homework sheet comes home that tells what all the assignments for the upcoming week will be. It is nice.

He has homework every night--Mon-Thurs. It usually takes him around 30 minutes. It's a mixture of math, reading, practicing spelling words, making up his own stories, etc...