Homework!

We are still getting used to homework around here.  Luke has a quite a bit each week.  He has a homework packet from his homeroom teacher and then a homework packet from his reading teacher.  Luckily they come home on Fridays and aren't due until the following Thursday.  The reading packet is probably the most intense.  You are supposed to work on it five nights and the parent is to initial for each night.  It mainly consists of reading sight words, additional words and sentences.  It also has some writing as well. Each night (Monday-Wednesday) a small book is sent home for Luke to read to us.  During his recent reading conference we learned he excels in reading and he is one of the top readers out of all the Kindergarten classes.  The teacher stressed the importance not to let up and to continually challenge him.

The homeroom packet is math, science, etc.  He does well with this, too.  Since Luke works on homework most every night Katherine wants to work on homework, too.  She is doing better at identifying her letters and numbers.  She is not quite where Luke was at this point, but each child is different!