Saturday, 6 June 2015

Home Learning - Update

A few weeks ago we posted about how home learning had been a big topic of discussion in Room 14. 

We continued to ask why we have home learning, and in particular - Which activities are more beneficial to our learning than others? Mr K agreed that he would not set any tasks purely for the sake of giving homework and is aware of the many activities that some students are involved in outside of school. 

We decided that the best use of our home learning time would be for such things as:
  • Preparing us for upcoming learning activities in class
  • Practising basic facts and other maths concepts
  • Word study / Language activities linking to a current focus 
  • Discussions with our friends or family about a current topic of interest to us
  • Preparing for our Friday Readers' Café
Speaking of Readers' Café, we should blog about this soon and share how this is looking in 2015. As a result of our home learning discussions, we now need to have a parent initial as evidence that we have been reading a particular text at home and in turn have entry to our Readers' Café on Friday mornings. 

Our 3-Way Conferences were a great forum to discuss home learning. All parents supported home learning in some form. Their main reasons included developing study skills, practising concepts taught at school, and having family involved in their child's learning. For a number of us, having our teacher and parents together was a good time to create some agreements and shared expectations. 

Since our last post we have had over 90% of us completing our home learning each week. Can we keep this up? 

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