OCS asks that all students read together with their parents for 20 minutes per school night. In addition to reading together, additional homework assignments may begin sometime in 2nd grade. Initially, homework is a simple task-oriented assignment that helps the students practice basic responsibility for materials and the routine of carrying them home and returning with them the next day. As students move through the grades, homework assignments grow to match the student’s developmental stage, with roughly 10 minutes of homework per grade level. For example, a typical 5th grade student may have 50 minutes of homework, a 6th grade student may have 60 minutes, and so on.
