Homework

Though Victoria is only in pre-K, her homework is like what my second graders did at the beginning of the year. Of course that was about 9 years ago, but still, her homework is getting very challenging! Check out what her homework was last week:

Monday: 35 addition problems (not just 1+1, but all combinations of two numbers equaling 10)
Tuesday: a front and back page of sounding out 3 and four-letter words; and ten groups of three words to put into alphabetical order (some of these words were ones they couldn't even sound out yet)
Wednesday: putting triangles around 5's and squares around 10's to 100 on the front page and fact families on the back

Their homework is due Thursday, so they don't have homework that night, but every night they also do their sight words (there are 41 of them now) and read a small phonics book. Up to this point the homework took about 15-20 min, which I think is about right for young 5-year-olds who aren't in K yet. Some nights last week it took her over an hour to complete the work! I'm just hoping it's not like this for the rest of the school year. The funny part is, she likes to make it even harder by wanting to put each sight word into a complete sentence and counting in Spanish for her math homework. At least she's ready for kindergarten!