Jenny's Classroom - Terrific Teaching - Open-Ended Homework Tasks

Book 1 Lower Primary contents:
- Cover the lot

- Sight word search

- Always and never ever

- Speech: procedure

- Under the hat & jokes

- Boxes

- Cut up sentence puzzles

- Five squares puzzle & a pat on the back

- My country

- Four in a row

- Weight and chair quoits

- Flip books & everything about 20

- Egg-carton doubles & walking alphabet

- Kindness to others & Number bottle

- Blocks & fingers

- Music & maths buzz

- Spoon, cup, bucket and bin

- Spelling challenges & matchstick puzzle

- Relative sizes

- Doubles bingo

- Planning an information report

- Money

- Getting closer & pets

- Five in a line

- Digit game

- Snowball toss

- Obstacle course

- Sixes

- Horizontal, vertical, odd and even

- Writing procedure

- Graphing

- Time

- Stetching sentences

- Switch it, shadow chasings & twelve

- Hundreds chart puzzle & mystery number
- Making cards

Each of the 36 tasks in each book are varied to avoid boredom and open-ended to allow all students to complete the same task at their ability level. More capabale students are challenged and struggling students are not demeaned by work that is too hard or is different to the work set for the rest of the class.

As family participation is required, parents can observe their child's progress and students benefit from positive adult input. Many of the tasks do not require teacher marking as they are games to play at home or they require students to make a presentation to the class. There is usually very little to be corrected if parents are supporting their child. However, this mean that homework presentation time needs to be in the the timetable.