Miss 8 is in year 4 and this is the first time we've faced 'homework'. While I grimaced at first, I've found that the homework activities are all open-ended and really suit my gifted child. We can make the projects as big or as small as we like. She LOVED her geography homework this week - which was to play a game of naming countries (like China) and then the next player names a country starting with the last letter (like Australia). It was designed to be an oral game but we turned ours into a written exercise and then mapped all of the countries in our game (@75 or so). It was quite cool! If homework is boring, monotonous worksheets - I'd have a real problem with that. So I guess what I'm saying is ... it's the nature of the homework that's the real issue. And I guess that all depends on individual teachers *sigh*
