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nope never had homework in Pre-K

Yes, he gets a worksheet every Wednesday. It varies between tracing letters, coloring, cutting, or all three. If they turn it in the next day they get to pick something from the treasure box. At back to school night his teachers said it was just to get them use to doing something at home and helping them with their skills.

His only homework so far as been to "practice using scissors for 3 min a day" and "practice putting his own coat on".

DD1 went to a "play-based" (supposedly) preschool last fall. Her teacher used to teach the pre-K class, but had my DD1s age (3-4y). They would do at least one worksheet every day (and often they were not age/grade appropriate), and routinely came home with packets of worksheets -- it was never called homework, but I guess was more work that they could do if they/you wanted them to. I ended up pulling her out of that preschool mid-year because I thought it was ridiculous.

No, but I specifically chose a nature and play based program that didn't have homework.

LO attends a nature based preK and they don't have homework but 2-3 times during the school year, they send home a free picture book and some extension ideas. THe kids are encouraged to draw/journal themselves doing the ideas (they are things like visit some farm animals or build a snowman). And they have a wall for photos with the families who do the activities. They aren't mandatory but we have had a lot of fun doing them!

@mauxie: my son loves doing it too! When they first told me he would have homework I was a little skeptical, I mean it is preschool! I didn't have homework until 2nd grade. Times sure have changed. But it is just one worksheet once a week and he gets so excited when he brings it home. I hope the excitement continues on to Kindergarten next year...

This is kind of blowing my mind. I think the "look for circles" and "practice x skill" assignments are fine, but I had no idea that preschools would send home worksheets (even if it's not mandatory for the kids to complete them). I'm not even a little bit okay with that for my DD, and would definitely switch if that happened.

DS is in preschool and has homework every night. Reading is every night (read with child and child reads there DRA leveled book). Math,, Spanish, Writing, Phonic, and Sight Words are once a week. So each night we read together and then do one subject.

Yep, she's almost 3. I was honestly shocked about it. I pretty much just let her scribble on the paper and turn it in, because....homework at 2? No.

Yes - but not assignment/workbook type assignments. It's all fun and things to encourage social sharing: make a collage about your family, bring in an item for show and tell (and come up with 3 "clues" about the item to get friends to try guessing what the item is), share your favorite activity of the weekend, find and bring in a fall themed item, etc.

We get the homework on Thursdays and turn it in whenever the following week. The point is to get familiarity with homework, but just as much about encouraging togetherness activities at home, and sharing with the class too.

There don't have homework at LO's pre-K. There are occasional family things, like we had to decorate a section of their classroom border together to represent our family -- that's all she's had to at home since school started.

Yup - at first I scoffed at the idea but I don't mind it now. The folder comes home Monday and goes back Friday. It's very simple stuff that correlates to what they do at school at week. Like Monday was practice tracing then writing upper case L. Just 5x. Tuesday was lowercase l. Wednesday was the number 1. Thursday was practicing recognizing their name. 5-10 minutes each night.
She is also at UPK at her elementary school. This is the real thing! LOL