Post #4

How does the teacher manage assignments?

She assigns math homework on Monday's. They pull out the assigned homework from their math book, attach a sign off sheet that asks parents to sign the sheet when they have checked their students work and then they turn it in every Friday. The students know the schedule and are prepared on Friday's to turn them in. Some students don't have their parents sign the paper so she sends the assignment back to get the parent signature. They are in 2nd grade so she doesn't really put a dead line on it, but if they don't get the homework turned in it affects their grade at the end of the year.

She doesn't have send home homework like the math assignments in the other subjects. She starts a "paper" of things that they learned about an animal or a topic of choice. They are starting on the 5 paragraph format. They are really little paragraphs, but it starts them on the writing path and they work on this is class. She does set a deadline on these, but again she is a little bit lenient. The students get really excited and creative when it comes to these assignments. It makes me laugh every time!

This teacher always tries her hardest to make sure that her students don't fall too far behind, but there is only so much you can do. She follows the guidelines of "No Child Left Behind" but after a certain point it is up to the students and their parents to keep them caught up in the material.