What are some samples of busy work? My son was in k last year and didn't do too much busy work. They did some art project every day almost if art center was open. And they might color a themed picture of a topic they were studying, but most of the time as far as I can see he didn't do too much busy work. Some work was too easy for him. But once she realized just how far ahead he was in reading, I stopped seeing that he was even doing phonics papers by them millions...more like an odd one here or there.