This is what a typical week's worth of homework looks like for our program. This is only for the homework that happens in Chinese, not anything that happens in English.
As you will see, none of it is very difficult. The teacher usually accepts a wide range of sentence qualities. Earlier in the year, they were required to write sentences with at least 13 charcters or more. I wonder if that requirement was dropped since they were now required to write book reports in addition to this homework.
Weekly homework packets were distributed on Fridays. Kids could decide if they wanted to get a jumpstart over the weekend, but official due dates were Tues through Friday for select pages. I've organized this by what was expected to be done, Monday through Friday.
I have also included the teacher's markings on my child's actual homework so you can see how the teacher corrected homework from Tues through Friday and returned those corrections directly to the student. This meant they were getting immediate feedback on their homework each day, so the assignments were not submitted into a void, but treated as very active parts of the current learning.
Each week introduced a set of characters and expressions based on narrative texts they were reading together in class. Here is what the kids received and worked on writing a few sentences to show comprehension:
Monday:
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| Character practice to match pinyin; write sentences for phrases of the week; provide an answer to an open-ended question based on the story being read in class. |
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| Story problems in Chinese; calculation skills practice. |
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| More character practice matched with pinyin; fill-in-the-blank to show comprehension. |
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| More math word problems and calculation skills reinforcement. |
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