Homework – To Help or Not? Getting involved with homework can reap rewards, writes Helen Currie.
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ow much should we help our children with homework and projects? There is no right or wrong answer regarding helping with homework. Homework allows parents to see what is being taught at school, and one of the reasons for homework is to teach your children how to work on their own. But, it’s not your homework, so don’t do the homework for your child. Your role is to help, advise and guide them and to plan and make suggestions. Here’s how: Reading is the most important aspect of learning, and affects everything we do in life. Encourage your child to read on their own every day, but at the weekends spend time listening to your child reading. Tests often stress children because it’s too much work at one time. Help to form a study plan, spreading the workload over a number of nights, allowing time for testing and revision. Where you can, turn learning into a game. For instance, write the different colours in Afrikaans on a piece of paper and stick on the bedroom wall. Then when dressing each morning your child can say them out loud. Orals can be a rather frightening experience, but also a good life skill to master. Let your child prepare, practice and perfect at home, which will build confidence for the
class presentation. Stress the importance of making eye contact and not burying their head in their notes. Getting into a habit of encouraging and overseeing your child’s homework each day - testing, guiding, supervising and showing interest in what your child is learning, will ultimately form a Kick-start your solid foundation in child’s 1st term junior school which Read & learn better, will see them through faster & more effectively with high school and our revolutionary beyond. A parent’s programme! job is never done, but From Grade R to Adults. being involved – and English & Afrikaans Hilton not actually doing the and Hayfields work – will pay off in 033 - 343 3226 the long run. devon@wiseeye.co.za www.wiseeye.co.za
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