I feel like homework has been going home more frequently recently. I hope no one feels too overwhelmed. I understand that students have extra curriculars and that homework can't always get done. As I have informed students, having incomplete homework is only a concern if it happens constantly. I generally don't give out homework for the sake of it, but sometimes I like to have some work going home so that parents and guardians can be involved and know more about what their kids are learning. In terms of math, our class, that is 75 minutes long, usually consisting of Mad Minutes, our Daily Problem, a short lesson and then 20 - 30 minutes to work on practice problems. Ususally that should be enough time to complete the 4 - 5 questions, but lately I feel that I spend so much time having the students quiet down during the transition of different activities, they are not able to have enough time to complete work in class. I just want to ask students and parents to be patient as we work on our listening skills and realize that we shouldn't always have homework if we work hard in class. I believe math class can be fun, but we always need to take care of buisness first . . . and lately there's been a lot of buisness.
Soon we will be starting into our math games to practice numeration skills, so we have that to look forward to!
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