September 29th, 2015
Your student should work 40 minutes each night
Daily Homework Time
Students should plan on about 30-50 minutes of homework each school day (ten minutes per grade level), not counting time to read. It’s best to pick a consistent time each night, such as after dinner, or right after school–whatever works for your family. The important idea is that your student is working at least 30 minutes every night, even if there is no actual homework assigned from school. Here’s a sample schedule:
Math
- Time: About 15 minutes
- Work on math skills. KhanAcademy.org is a great place to do this.
Writing
- Time: 15 minutes or more
- Work on the current writing piece.
- Continue from the work that was started at school.
Homework from class or other practice
- Time: about 15 minutes or less, based on what was completed in class.
- Finish up science experiments or social studies notes from class.
- No homework from class? Do some of these things:
- Cursive handwriting, reading aloud with fluency, spelling words, learning practice at Khanmath facts, or reading, science or language skills at Khan Acacdemy.
Reading
- Time: 20 minutes or more
- This is not part of the daily homework time. It’s extra! That means 40 minutes + 20 minutes. That’s because reading is that important!
- Students could read books from home, library books, fiction stories, informational books, or at Epic or other digital reading sites.
