Homework is a fact of life, along with soccer practice, dance lessons, and all the other demands on a student's time.  Start homework routines when children are young, so healthy study habits are implanted by the time homework becomes more complex and time consuming.


· Establish a homework routine, preferably the same time and place every day, with
  some flexibility.

· Treat homework as an important activity, something that needs to be scheduled and
  not just squeezed in between activities.

· Establish appropriate study settings, distraction free.

· Be aware of your child's best time to do challenging work- usually when they have
  the most energy.

· Parents can set a good example by doing their homework at the same time: paying
  bills, reading the newspaper.

· Draw the line between helping your child do his/her homework and doing it for
  him/her.  That can be difficult to determine but it's crucial that parents do so.  Help
  your child when he/she becomes frustrated, but do not do the work.  (Adapted from
  the Star Ledger-Heading off homework hassles by Dave Curtin, October, 1996)


Please check your child's folder daily for notices, letters, schoolwork and assigned homework.  A homework packet will be handed out on Mondays.  The assignments given should take no longer than 15-20 minutes for your child to complete.  If your child should experience difficultly completing an assignment, please inform me, via a note or call.  Homework should be completed according to the day assigned.  I discourage children in going ahead in their homework because that day’s lesson has not been taught yet.  All homework needs to be turned in by Friday.  Any tests that come home should be signed and returned.  In this way, I know you have seen it. 


A homework notice will be sent home in the event that homework is not completed by the due date.  The missing assignment will need to be returned to school by the following day.  Absences from school will be taken into consideration and ample time to complete assignments will be given at my discretion.  Plausible excuses will take exception, again, upon my discretion.  Please send me a note if your child was unable to complete an assignment.  Too many missing assignments will result in a lower grade but can be redeemed by completing extra credit assignments. 


Please do not hesitate to call me any time about any questions you may have regarding the homework.  Thank you!

                                                
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