school sends no homework. my mother bought a stack of worksheets anyway, and she loves them

breezy_fern_7626

ib school, grade 3, and the homework policy is basically read, play, sleep. we were fine with that. my mother, who lives with us, was not, and came back from the stationery shop last week with three fat workbooks. sums, fill in the blanks, joining dots. i expected a fight. instead my daughter sits with her nanamma after school and does four pages like it's a treat. there's a sticker at the end of every page, which might be the whole story. not asking anything really. just didn't see it coming

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  • orchid_gecko_6482

    Children often enjoy the thing that has a clear end. Four pages, a sticker, done. Open-ended school work doesn't give them that. The only tradeoff I'd watch is whether the worksheets start to feel like the 'real' work and the school's reading becomes optional. With my daughter it went that way for a while around that age, and it took some effort to bring the reading back.

    • teal_kettle_1676

      Saw the same thing at home, and mine is in IB too. Her ba used to give her mental maths at breakfast, no worksheets, just 'ba ne kahe, 13 times 7?'. Years later she still does sums faster than her friends. The reading she did on her own, so I wouldn't worry too much about one pushing out the other 🙂

    • peach_lantern_1764

      Replying to @teal_kettle_1676

      both my sons can multiply in their heads too. neither can find his own socks. there are limits to what worksheets fix

    • sunny_compass_4090

      Replying to @teal_kettle_1676

      my little one does tables with her paati on video call, in tamil. she can't say them in english at all. school is confused but she's quick

    • breezy_fern_7626

      Replying to @peach_lantern_1764

      the socks problem is already showing at 8. good to know it's permanent

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