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Hello 2nd Class,
We loved your comment on our blog. Thanks for voting. Monkey won by 2 votes in the end! We will make a graph to show that.
We have just seen your homework page.
If you do homework, how long does it take you to do your homework? -Nate
At our school, in Melbourne, every week, we take a letter of the alphabet to do our homework on and it’s in alphabetical order. -Alessandra
The whole school does the same letter and we can do anything beginning with that letter. For example, for the letter “A” Ruben made a map of Australia and marked in all the “A” places. For “B”, Alessandra made a book. For the letter “H”, Dawet drew a horse.
We change the letter each week and this week its I. -Kyla
Some people in this class do homework but only a few. It’s optional. -Lily
We have to do reading each night for at least 15 minutes. Some do skip counting too.
It’s ok that you write in Irish. Our teacher can translate. She can speak Irish because she is from Ireland!
From the boys and girls in 1-2 E (aged 6, 7, 8) and Edel.
Dear Boys and Girls from 1-2 E and your Teacher,
How wonderful to hear from you and to hear that
your Teacher can speak Irish because she is from Ireland 🙂
Our Teacher loves the sound of optional
homework because she finds she can spend 40 precious minutes
at the beginning of the day checking that it is done. Though it
is a link to home and shows parents how a child is doing.
As you might guess, homework here is not optional.
It is compulsory.
Nate asked ‘How long does it take to do your homework?’
Well Nate here is the ‘rule of thumb’
1st Class/Grade: Their homework is meant to take 10-20 minutes
In 2nd homework is meant to take 20-30 minutes.
In 3rd, it is 30-40
In 4th: 40-50 minutes
In 5th: 50-1 hour
and in 6th: an hour to an hour and ten minutes.
Well you can imagine what happens!
Our Teacher gives homework that she estimates
will take 20-30 minutes.
Some children work very fast and are finished in
ten minutes and then for other children there are lots
of interruptions and distractions and their
homework may take an hour.
It is very hard for teacher to assign homework
that will take everyone the same amount of time.
In fact it is probably impossible.
The alphabet method of homework that you describe
sounds very interesting and creative.
You will learn a lot from reading 🙂
Teacher always thinks that it is an easy way to
learn spelling and it helps with your style of writing too.
We do skip counting too and number patterns.
For homework we have done a lot of addition
and take away tables.
We are looking forward to our summer holidays
and you have winter weather.
We are in school now, and it is probably bedtime
where you live.
We think this is really interesting
and we only started to understand the time differences
between Ireland and other parts of the world when
we started blogging.
With every good wish
2nd Class Room 6 and their Teacher, Merry Beau
Cool Blog 🙂
Thanks JP, glad you think so. Did you try the musical games on this post?