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October 2008 Newsletter
October 25, 2008
Friday is Halloween! I hope all the bumble bees, Dracula’s and other dress-ups have a wonderful and safe night! What a good thing it is on a Friday evening this year, so that Saturday can be a day of recovery and self discipline and not eat all the sweets off in one go!
We are now well into the term and there seems to be mixed feelings towards the Homework. Some schools seem to have cut back on their demands of the students. The teachers from these schools set work in class. If this work is not completed in school time then it would be done for “Homework.” Some parents are quite satisfied with this as the evenings are stress free. Other schools are trying to stick to the 10 minutes per grade. For example grade 1 has 10 minutes homework, grade 2 twenty minutes and so forth. Then of course there are the other schools that set homework that takes so much longer and involves mom and dad. What can parents do in situations like this? Making the teacher aware of what is happening is important. Sometimes they do not realize that the work they have set takes some students such a long time or perhaps there has been a misunderstanding and it was never meant to have been done like this. The teacher does want the work to be done by the student after all and should insist that it is so this might mean cutting back on the expectations.
This term, schools seem to be forging ahead and packing as much as possible into the already busy school day. Parents should keep a keen interest in what is happening in their child’s school life because the child could easily become over whelmed with all the demands. The child needs a variety of outlets to release his/her energy that is not just playing video games. Physical activity is important
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