Alan's Winter Vacation Homework

In Taiwan is very popular for teacher to give vacation homework to their students. No matter it is winter vacation or summer vacation. Alan is in the fifth grade now, he has a lot of homework to do.

First, he has Chinese reading. He has to go to he public library and borrow 8 books from teacher's list. After reading each book, he has to write the summary of the book, what he thinks, the author, publisher and more.

Second, he has to arrange his own space. If he has messy room or desk, it is time to clean up. He can clean his room or desk or wash his dirty shoes or bag packs. For each of these, he must take a picture before and after the process. After that, he has to write a summary on how he felt doing the cleaning.

Third, he has a math book to do. Teachers gave them a book with whole bunch of math problems. He has to finish the book and the fist day of school, teachers will give them a little test.

Fourth, he has to do Chinese composition. He has to find mistakes and correct them. It is like reading, he has to read it first and see which word is wrong and correct.

Fifth, Antonyms and Synonyms homework. Teacher made them to buy a little book, this book has date on date. They have to do it each day and they have to find words that are similar of different.

Sixth, English homework. It has reading, a little bit of grammar, and writing. They have to complete the book that teachers made for them.

Finally, Alan has to write a diary.

Homework sounds fun for them, but the child did not even have more vacation. Taiwanese education push the child to learn the material, but too much material, sometimes is not good for the child.