No but the "middle kid's" K teacher made a good suggestion. Instead of make a line from the picture to the word... cut out all the big words on the "extra" sheet and make them into sentences or use in a story with some of her own words added in extra. I think the goal is to manipulate whatever you can and then just supplement so there is a general sense of "doing homework". Although I'm very glad for your post because I've gotten away from thinking "do homework" ever since the bigger kid never seems to have any (does it on the 9 minute bus ride home).
Yes, we rework things sometimes, even the regular assignments. We have an ok from teacher to take spelling practice and do vocab/word meaning/origins lessons instead because that is definitely an area where practice is rarely needed for ds8.
When he gets the word sheet we definitely go over it, but if it's clear he's got them down, more spelling of the same just seems like a waste...also, why learn to spell the word if you are unclear on it's meaning?
