T1 goes to a school reputed for slave-driving kids with academic pursuits and lots of homework but really, she doesn’t get much homework at all. Not to me anyway. I’ve seen kids with lots more, or perhaps she does it independently and quickly that it doesn’t appear to be a lot?

She gets homework once a week on a Thursday and has 3 whole days plus half of Thursday in order to complete her homework. When she is focused, she usually finishes it within 15 minutes. When she is not focused, meaning the TV is on, she takes up to half an hour. We have a rule in that she has to complete all homework on that Thursday itself or no going out over the weekend. Might as well get it over and done with and out of the way, right?

This weekend’s homework was this:

Mathematics: She was given 12 sums in total in equation form (double digit numbers within a hundred, addition and subtraction) and had to convert it into vertical format and then complete the sums. She did this in a breeze and I caught one careless mistake.

Bahasa: She was given 8 jumbled up sentences (of only 3-4 words each, like Kucing itu comel, Nama saya Ali, Kereta itu sangat laju) and had to rearrange its order to form a correct sentence. She surprised me by being able to do this without help and got it all correct. I didn’t realise her Bahasa had progressed so much. At the start of the year, she was just starting to learn some vocabulary and now they’re doing sentence construction?

English: She had to practise her Similes. Earlier at school this week, she was taught Similes (as blind as a bat, as strong as an ox, as graceful as a swan, as cold as ice, as cunning as a fox, etc. 15 Similes to be exact – we have a standing joke now – as chatty as a Tessa, she hates it). So for homework, a worksheet with some fill in the blanks of 8 similes were given.

Another worksheet was to match by drawing lines joining pictures of 6 animals with their corresponding habitats (lions live in a lair, rabbits in a hutch, wild rabbits in a burrow, blablabla…..).

The third worksheet was matching masculine and feminine words (doe and buck, duck and drake, dog and bitch – love this one, lord and lady, boar and sow, stallion and mare, fox and vixen etc).

I must say I am very happy with the school’s standard in English because even I am having difficulty with her English work. T1 knows more than me! English is her current weakest subject in school and has been from Day One. And her English is not bad at all. The standard is just exceptionally high.

T1 had no problems doing this English homework as she has a good memory and has remembered the necessary.

Science: She had one page of pictures of objects and she just had to tick which objects were noises made at home and which were noises made outside the home. Easy, right? I think so! But she got the cat wrong. Cat was supposed to be a house noise (I checked!) but T1 is not familiar with cats at home and only know of stray cats lurking outside some homes…….hence the mistake. Actually, our syllabus is really lousy.

Doing homework – Macam ini pun boleh?

So what do you think? Do you think it is a lot of homework for a 6 year old, considering she completes it in less than half an hour? I think half an hour of homework is not much at all. Of course, some kids may find it overwhelming but T1 isn’t complaining just yet. I hear that there would be homework everyday next year when she starts doing Standard Two work, but just one page everyday. Yikes!

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