Homework help guides for parents, K to Grade 5

How much homework should my child have? The 10-minute rule, grade by grade The 10-minute rule suggests about 10 minutes of homework per grade each night. What it means from kindergarten to 5th grade, and what to do when it runs long. September 25, 2026 · 7 min
Homework fights: what to do when your child refuses to do homework Tears, stalling, “I can’t”: why homework turns into a fight in elementary school, and calm steps that help, from a shorter routine to a note to the teacher. September 25, 2026 · 6 min
Math fact fluency by grade: what your child should know, kindergarten to 5th grade What the Common Core expects for math facts in each grade, from adding within 5 in kindergarten to knowing all one-digit products by the end of 3rd grade. September 25, 2026 · 7 min
How to teach sight words at home: a short daily routine for any list What sight words are, how the Dolch and Fry lists differ, and a short daily routine for the words your child’s teacher sends home, from kindergarten on. September 25, 2026 · 6 min

Kamelo at a glance

Kamelo is an iPhone, iPad and Android app for parents of 6 to 11-year-olds, Kindergarten to 5th grade.
A parent photographs tonight’s homework instructions, spelling list or lesson; Kamelo turns it into about ten minutes of practice on exactly that, with Kamelo, a small chameleon who changes color.
Kamelo never does the homework for the child or hands over ready-made answers: it has them practice what the teacher set, and the right answer only appears after they have tried.
A parent checks every exercise before the child sees it; the child never chats with an AI, and everything Kamelo says is written in advance.
Reading the photo is done by Anthropic’s Claude AI, with the parent’s consent; the child’s name is masked on the phone before upload and the photo is deleted from the servers within 24 hours.
No ads and no trackers in the child’s space; data is hosted in Paris, in the European Union.
The kinds of practice: spelling lists, sight words, addition and subtraction facts, multiplication facts, mental math, number words, lesson quizzes, poems to memorize and vocabulary in another language.
Free: 3 photo scans in the first 14 days, then 1 a month, one child profile, unlimited typing-in. Premium: $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year, up to 3 children, with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan.
A session lasts about 10 minutes; no timer by default, no red marks, no leaderboards.
Kamelo is made in France by Thomas Sobstyl, a parent and independent developer; the app is available in French, British English and American English.

Facts checked on September 25, 2026.

Tonight’s homework, without the fight.

Planned for the US in January 2027. France comes first, from October 2026.