I think that your school put their curriculum on Calvert's platform, which is unfortunate because their platform is buggy.
The work that you are describing sounds nothing at all like what my son is doing. First of all, there is only schoolwork, no homework beyond the schoolwork. There are no worksheets. I wish I could upload some photos to show you what the assignments look like, but they are either multiple choice questions or writing assignments. I just looked at quite a few assignments again from both the student side and the parent/teacher side to make sure that I hadn't missed numbers, and the only numbers I see are: Science 500, Language Arts 500, etc. (He's in 5th grade. In 4th grade, they were all subject 400).
My son's math assignments are taught much the same way it was taught to me in school... and I am wayyy before common core!
The only things that sounds similar with your curriculum and ours are the research reports. Most of them have been reports where he could gather the information from any source, including online. He had to do a book report on a fiction book of his choice and a book report on a non-fiction book. The parameters are loose to start with, and since parents are the teachers, we can loosen them even more if we want to. He's working on a biography now about any prominent person not born in the USA. Personally, I think the research reports are great assignments to teach him to do research, sort information, put the information together in an understandable way, etc. But, if he had to do them IN ADDITION to other schoolwork instead of AS HIS SCHOOLWORK, I would be mad about too much work, too.
I think that your school put their curriculum on Calvert's platform, which is unfortunate because their platform is buggy.
The work that you are describing sounds nothing at all like what my son is doing. First of all, there is only schoolwork, no homework beyond the schoolwork. There are no worksheets. I wish I could upload some photos to show you what the assignments look like, but they are either multiple choice questions or writing assignments. I just looked at quite a few assignments again from both the student side and the parent/teacher side to make sure that I hadn't missed numbers, and the only numbers I see are: Science 500, Language Arts 500, etc. (He's in 5th grade. In 4th grade, they were all subject 400).
My son's math assignments are taught much the same way it was taught to me in school... and I am wayyy before common core!
The only things that sounds similar with your curriculum and ours are the research reports. Most of them have been reports where he could gather the information from any source, including online. He had to do one on a fiction book of his choice and one on a non-fiction book. The parameters are loose to start with, and since parents are the teachers, we can loosen them even more if we want to. He's working on a biography now about any prominent person not born in the USA. Personally, I think the research reports are great assignments to teach him to do research, sort information, put the information together in an understandable way, etc. But, if he had to do them IN ADDITION to other schoolwork instead of AS HIS SCHOOLWORK, I would be mad about too much work, too.