You can help your child with homework. Provide a quiet, well lighted place for your son or daughter to study. A desk is ideal, but a corner of the kitchen table after dinner is fine, too.

Establish a regular "homework time" in your home. During this time, there should be little, or no distractions.

Make sure your youngster has the "tools of the trade". These tools include pencils, paper, and a dictionary appropriate for his or her age group.

Encourage and support your child's efforts. Be available for questions.

Students in kindergarten should not have any homework unless it is the completion of a project or work that they missed, or did not get finished in class. Students may be sent home with books from our home reading program.

Students in grades 1 through 3 can expect approximately 10-30 minutes of homework a night, about 10 minutes per grade plus home reading.

Students in grades 4 through 6 should can expect to spend 30 to 60 minutes a night on school work, about ten minutes per grade. A good idea might be to spend Monday, Wednesday and Friday on language arts and social, and Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday on math and science. There is always work to do. It could be reading, writing or actual assigned homework. As students move from grade 4 to 6, the workload increases to meet the demands of the curriculum.

Many junior high students have assumed a very narrow definition of homework. If nothing specific is assigned, they feel that they have no homework. Each of the areas listed below should be part of their regular homework.

• Completion of work not finished in class.
• Completion of daily assignments.
• Completion of long term assignments. If an assignment is due in 2 - 3 weeks work on it regularly.
• Review work taken each day. Studies have shown that 70% of material learned is forgotten within three days if there has been no review.
• Study for exams and tests. If you review daily this will be easy.

Junior high students should be prepared to do one to two hours homework, study, and review, five nights per week. They should also be prepared to do extra work for tests and exams beyond the one to two hours.

Assignments that have been designated by a teacher as being long term assignments must be handed in on, or before, the due date. It is important, for all assignments, that students are responsible for accomplishing tasks on time.

SCHOOL ZONE

Our school is on the school district's school zone, an excellent program that allows students and parents to monitor assignments, homework, news, newsletters and views.  All students who have not been assigned passwords in previous years will be assigned passwords (upon completion of an application form) from our office. SchoolZone if fully operational at our school.