MON, I think you're right about the rules, and we can do that at home, but I honestly don't recall writing being that big a deal in elementary school.
We have so little time after school (he plays two instruments) that I really have to cherry pick what our after schooling looks like (and DS typically prefers that we spend that time on Beast Academy math and now Grammar Town which he's really taken to).
I don't want to come across to the teacher as having a total disregard for what they are pushing in terms of writing though (it was the same story in 3rd grade, too, different state, btw)--I just find it hard to believe that writing is such a huge deal at this stage of his education.
But, as my son recently told me, "Mom, you've been wrong before."
:-)
