We prepare a week's assignments because many families may not get home at a consistent time every evening. Work, dance class, soccer practice, and meetings back at school make it difficult for many children to complete overnight assignments. At Barrie, we sent a week's assignments home with the child's portfolio on Thursdays. They were due at the end of the next week, when the teachers would sit down with the children to review what worked, what they enjoyed, and what they fould difficult or unappealing. It is always good practice to build in many opportunities for children to choose among several alternative assignments.
More ambitious schools can prepare individually negotiated weekly assignments with each students.
Discuss the books that the children are reading in class on Fridays. Meet the rabbi, priest, or minister and learn as much as you can about this other faith. Pretend tha you have a thousand dollars to invest, ten thousand, a million. Convert this number into square yards. Call two carpet dealers.