8 year old homework...help!

[di]

Is it just me or is a lot more expected of eight year olds now....maybe I've just forgotten it all???

DD's homework this week is to make sentences involving the words aerodynamic and displacement.
Last week was similar but each sentence had to be an example of assonance,alliteration,personification and onomatopoeia...and yep,she had to learn to spell them too

[binley100]

[Rabidbun]

Blimey, never even heard of assonance!

[zazen999]

Is this what's wrong with education? Not that kids are not taught, but that they are taught things so early that by the time they come to be able to really understand the context, they have forgotten most of it.

[di]

Not just me then!

I knew what onomatopoeia meant...although still have to check the spellings...but assonance and alliteration had to be looked up,I also had personification muddled with metaphors

Still struggling on the 'displacement' sentence if anyone can help

[di]

Is this what's wrong with education? Not that kids are not taught, but that they are taught things so early that by the time they come to be able to really understand the context, they have forgotten most of it.

I think so...poor little girl was so chuffed with herself that she'd looked up displacement in the dictionary and copied the definition...I felt bad asking her what exactly the definition meant when she obviously didn't have a clue.

We've spent the weekend studying Ancient Egypt...far more appropriate....and interesting...IMHO.

[dogsbody]

The displacement of the air over the wing added to the aerodynamic effect lifting the aeroplane's wing enabling it to fly.

[Jeanied]

I think both sentences could be linked to flight in some way. How about looking a bit at how birds fly and the action / shape of their wings and make a couple of sentences about that.

He he - great minds, Dogsbody!

[dogsbody]

I might have missed a comma there somewhere.

Last week's has me foxed though (some of it).

Just which school is this?

[PAULW]

Not just me then!



Still struggling on the 'displacement' sentence if anyone can help

Archimedes law
His most famous theorem gives the weight of a body immersed in a liquid, called after him, Archimedes' principle - that a body immersed in a fluid is subject to an upward force (buoyancy) equal in magnitude to the weight of fluid it displaces.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Not just me then!

I knew what onomatopoeia meant...although still have to check the spellings...but assonance and alliteration had to be looked up,I also had personification mudled with metaphors

Still struggling on the 'displacement' sentence if anyone can help

Displacement of the arabs from the West bank by the Israeli's has caused strife in the middle east.

[binley100]

........and this is for an eight year old......ridiculous .

[lottie dolly]

Is it just me or is a lot more expected of eight year olds now....maybe I've just forgotten it all???

DD's homework this week is to make sentences involving the words aerodynamic and displacement.
Last week was similar but each sentence had to be an example of assonance,alliteration,personification and onomatopoeia...and yep,she had to learn to spell them too

glad i not got any home work to do,thats complicated for me,never mind a young one,the education would be better spent on the basics of,how life works first,like the 3RS,then some of the kids minds will understand more,but 8 is way to young for THAT kind of homework,or am i out of toutch

[swansea girl]

I think its ridiculous,they will learn them just to pass the test the following week and they will be forgotten the following week while they learn the new ones! poor kids!

When my son was 8/9 his teacher gave him homework like this every week along with maths homework every day and reading books which he had to read 3 or 4 chapters a night! not too mention an absurd amount of writing work(and the occassional extra project).He was coming home from school having his tea and bath and then doing his homework until bedtime.
I went in to see his teacher and explained that he was having too much homework and he had no time for anything else,not too mention either myself or his dad had to sit with him and help him and we only just got to grips with what he was supposed to do,she told me that nobody else had complained (I asked around and a lot had!) and if he wanted to get anywhere he WILL continue to do the work....I told her that he will do 30 minutes a night and no more,which we stuck to...he was a much happier boy at home but hated school for the full year he had that teacher.
Thankfully the following years he had a much more reasonable amount of homework and work that was challenging but he actually learnt from.He is now 12 and in the first year of comprehensive and loves school and is doing really well.

Good luck with your homework

[di]

I agree it's ridiculous...last weeks I can sort of get my head around...as long as they continue to cover the subject,therefore not forget it all.But displacement???...it's way above me!
I'm going to chat to her teacher tomorrow and suggest that once she's been taught in school what the word means then I might be able to help putting it into context with her.