Have you learnt anything through homeschooling?

[homeschoolmyarse]

Just having a little stand off with ds.
Homeschooling is an absolute nightmare in this house.
But if he was less resistant and more pleasant I think I could enjoy it
Lots of maths memories coming back and liking relearning chemistry and physics. And midsummer nights dream and poetry. Think I’d forgotten everything I learned.

As per pp.. if this system of math had been in place when I was at school I would have had less problems. It is how I used to do it, and got in trouble for it.
I am helping the kids in my second language so grammar a learning experience.

Yes learned about hexadecimal system and how it relates to binary today. Made my brain hurt.

I’m very good at year 2 maths. I think this is my top level so I’m glad I’m not quarantined with an eight year old. So far, so good.

You can't end a sentence with because because because is a connection.

I knew this grammatically but love the word play.

Fucking conjunction

That home ed in normal times is a million times easier than having the dc cooped up at home all day.

(And that there’s no 0 AD and lots of other things.)

That although cucumber is a vegetable culinary wise, botanically it is a fruit.

Honestly, I can't say this to anyone else because it sounds so smug, but it turns out my DC really are a joy to teach! Tbf, I'm a better, more patient teacher than I thought I'd be, but it's mainly thanks to them, they are fucking fantastic. Hard working, interested and so keen to learn. They amaze and impress me every day.

DrKnickerbocker9
I’ve learnt that I most definitely do not want to be a teacher. Over my cold, dead body.
that's me too!

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal - I love your response, it's so sweet. So often we moan about our DC. I love it when I meet people who genuinely think their DC are great for defined reasons (as opposed to my child is the second coming types).

That all this time I thought I felt education was important and now I discover I dont care what they are doing as long as they are doing it quietly

DS 13 (ASD) needs me to do 1 to 1 with him for everything and keeps going off at tangents / needing adjustments so I'm learning / redoing quite a lot. Today was a Harry Potter quiz, history of Weimar Republic (recap for me) and Bank of England GDP scenarios and South Sea Bubble after DS decided to ask if any significant economic events happened in 1706. Not according to BoE so we got to South Sea bubble. Then DS needed to know about what happened to Sweden and Norway between the wars. And silkie chicken is poule soie in French.

As DS hates music I started listen with cat (he refuses music lessons at school), the cat seems to love all the music school sends and DS has stopped moaning about it now he listens with cat.

Here goes with my ‘Please don’t ridicule me’ question about The Moon...

Was the moon named after months or months names after the moon? As in does a month only exists as roughly the time is takes for a moon to go through it’s cycle? It would be quite a coincidence to the time of a month to be created before the naming of the moon.

That we 'waste' a lot of our time moving around to school and work each day.

I always knew English grammar was a bit of mess compared to say Spanish (or even Irish). I have now realised just how much of a disaster it really is. No wonder the kids struggle it. It's a total clusterfuck.

My kid will do anything for a point (which he is saving up for pokemon stuff), including spellings. He loathes spellings.

Lesson planning is hard. Even just for one relatively willing and able child. OK the actual concepts might be basic (year 1) but trying to deliver it in a way that is engaging and that I can assess. Worksheet after worksheet just isn't cutting it.

Ds is bright and can pick up on concepts quickly, and use logic to work out the next piece of the puzzle, but only if he applies himself and isn't too busy trying to get his foot behind his ear.

If he fidgets as much in class as he does at home I am getting him assessed. He is NEVER still.

Teachers deserve every single penny they get and more. (though tbh I always thought this. A good teacher is worth their weight in gold)

DrKnickerbocker9

Me too, god I hate teaching one child, let alone being trapped in room with 30 of the buggers.

On the positive side I'm so glad my DC's have inherited their fathers abilities in maths, so my 2 older DD's (Yr11 & Yr7) can help DS with his maths when he doing Y6 and Yr7 math because I have no idea where to start. Luckily he know what he's doing and when he gets struck can ask his sister, if dad is working.

That homeschooling is worse than I ever imagined and that bribery is the only way to get a 10 year old to co-operate

That it's a lot easier teaching someone else's kids than my own!

I know my three times table!
DS still has no clue.
My Mum says she only learnt her times tables trying (and failing) to teach me. So it's a noble tradition.

That YouTube isn't just for cat and 80s music videos! I've re-learned so much maths that I've slid into the habit of doing on my calculator. I also didn't know that Ada Lovelace was the daughter of Lord Byron until this week.

When I used to say "Oh, my kid loves school!" I did always wonder if I was kidding myself. But no. After six weeks of playing at home and doing junk modelling and baking and whatnot, he is still adamant that he loves school and wants to go back. Which I guess is a good thing as lockdown won't last for ever. (We do do maths and English as well, but he's only in Reception, so it's mostly been play.)

Yes that I do not or could not ever in my life be a primary school teacher. It's so painful and stressful

I see now why dd2s teachers all seem to really like her. She is a joy to teach

I have learned lots about grammar from my Year 2 son.

We have also learned just how much our son struggles in one area and how much the school have been misunderstanding of this (they have said he can’t have dyslexia because she scored highly on his phonics test, but he can barely write. He can’t even copy accurately).