Huh, I am doing homework with a 5th grader every day. Found a quiz in his backpack...he got a lousy 60 on it. Not ashamed at all...bunch of excuses. We reviewed it and had quite the discussion. Fantasy, science fiction, memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, historical fiction, fiction, and nonfiction. He had to write out the meaning of each. Epic fail. OMGosh......I think I made it fun to look it all up and figure it out. Then we started naming movies and books and he fit them into the right category.
When they left for the day, I enjoyed a good ten minutes of absolute silence. Felt great.
You are a braver man than I, Gunga Din-I don’t mind helping my neighbors’ kids who are 17 and older with their papers and reading when they ask-especially English and History. But I’m pretty certain that even an hour with a 5th grader would send me screaming into the woods, never to be seen again...