If your child is learning from home.. what's made you smile?

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DS (year 4) has the school's music teacher for registration and class time. Every morning once the register is done, he puts the words of a song up on the screen and tells them all to stand up and join in while he sits at his piano playing and singing the song. Luckily he tells them all to mute themselves or it may not be so pleasant

It really gets the day off to a lovely start and DS really seems to enjoy it.

Hearing DD laughing. Either lane, with her mates or with the whole class.
One of her teachers forgot to unmute herself the other day and the whole class were waving at her, shouting and all sorts of other gestures. They were all on the floor with giggling. It was a real treat.

We asked DD (4) what she missed most about school; she thought very hard before settling on Fish & Chip Fridays. So that's now our Friday lunchtime routine. Obviously it'd be better if she missed her friends or something, but at least there's something...

DD's teacher had a quick 121 video call with everyone in her class as they haven't had any face to face time this term. Her dog jumped up onto the sofa and whatever she wanted to talk about went out the window because DD just wanted to see the dog.

Also DS has a teacher that looks like Jon Snow. And another that sounds like he's got his own YouTube channel - 'hello and welcome to Mr X's history lesson. Today we are going to start with .....' I can just imagine him finishing the lesson with a "thank you for subscribing'

@PeterPandemic

DD's teacher had a quick 121 video call with everyone in her class as they haven't had any face to face time this term. Her dog jumped up onto the sofa and whatever she wanted to talk about went out the window because DD just wanted to see the dog.

Also DS has a teacher that looks like Jon Snow. And another that sounds like he's got his own YouTube channel - 'hello and welcome to Mr X's history lesson. Today we are going to start with .....' I can just imagine him finishing the lesson with a "thank you for subscribing'

Wait Jon Snow the broadcaster or Jon Snow from GOT because of it’s the later, can I have the link/ code to this lesson? 😉

DS’s Spanish teacher always starts with a song which DS and I sing along to 😂.

We do fish and chip Fridays in remberence of school dinners too. DD wistfully talks about who she'd be sitting next to and what the dinner ladies would be saying

My youngest is very imaginative. This can lead to her getting one wrong end of the stick with her work sometimes, or filling in knowledge gaps with her own musings (such as the date of Easter being related to when rabbits give birth... Or drawing a fabulous diagram of 17pencils then asking me how it was supposed to help answer the maths question.). This insight into her mind is fascinating.

Also seeing how they light up when they read feedback from their teachers on their work.

I've been so impressed with how engaged DD is with lessons. She really struggles with homework, and non-zoom school work, and is in an extra support group, so I had assumed she was sat quiet in lessons or not paying attention but it's really made me smile overhearing "Mr X, Mr X, Mr X!!!" Every few minutes as she asks a million questions and has a response for everything the class is asked (Makes a change from Mum, Mum, Muuuummmm!") Her teacher is really patient with her too

My Y7 - so proud of the way she just seems to sit and get on with it. Best of all she is really letting fly with all the artistic stuff - because she has longer in the day - her "posters of the solar system" and "cartoon of how to extract DNA from a Kiwi Fruit" are works of Art she has spent AGES over them!

So lovely to see. She does really love art.

My Y8 DD who struggles (and I mean really, really struggles) in maths and science just got 75% in an end of topic test after never getting more than 30%. She has revised her socks off this week and now can't stop smiling! I feel a bit emotional

My Y4 is much more ambivalent and I don't blame him - lots of the SPAG worksheets are pretty dull. But he designed a rainforest in a shoebox which made me smile a LOT - he got really into it and for once was not clock watching until he could finish and get back on his games!

Forgot to say it was a science test.

@tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz

My Y8 DD who struggles (and I mean really, really struggles) in maths and science just got 75% in an end of topic test after never getting more than 30%. She has revised her socks off this week and now can't stop smiling! I feel a bit emotional

Aw! Well done @tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz 's DD! That's awesome.

I relate to this - my DD gets so lost in her drawing and diagrams that she can forget what it is all about ...

Ah, that was to @Aroundtheworldin80moves ...

Great idea for a thread. It’s lovely when you hear them laughing.

We had a muddle when older child was accidentally invited to a younger child’s music class and younger child to his A level physics class. Lots of laughing all round and both children enjoyed visiting each other’s classes.

Teacher getting side tracked one day and showing kids progress being made on his 1,000 piece Harry Potter jigsaw.

Listening to DD's History teacher describing various wacky cures for the Black Death in medieval times, including tying a live chicken to your underarm and groin 😂. And DD telling me about a teacher (possibly the same one) having to teach a live lesson with his toddler in tow, and trying to stop said toddler from picking her nose.

I just adore seeing how their little minds open up, or when I find a way to explain something and you see it click.

DS is not a reader at all, but we had a serious chat during the week about why reading is so important. Now he's started taking my Kindle to bed and has read two Wimpy Kid books in the last three nights.

It makes my heart so, so happy to see kids learn to love reading.

IncludeWomenInTheSequel same here, I have one who reads and one who sadly doesn’t. Have you read Bookworm by Lucy Mangan? I just finished reading it and it brought back happy bookworm memories.

LadyCatStark Jon Snow Jr. Long curly hair in a man bun and Kit Harrington glasses. Sadly ruined by bad lighting (under the chin) and airline pilot headphones with attached big microphone.

They tried to have an all school assembly the other day on Teams. It was scheduled to last 10 minutes. It was a total shambles, kids couldn't get on, couldn't hear. Principal trying to show a video via WhatsApp. It took an hour. Hilarious

This thread is reminding me what stars many of our teachers are

DD (yr 2) getting to grips with doing the tech (muting/unmuting/hand up/hand down) during her live classes.

She unmutes to answer a question and does this massive deep breath and announces the answer in a very posh voice. Like University challenge

It was also very funny to submit her video of 'How to Make a Pizza' (using her toy kitchen stuff) with a full scale cat fight suddenly whizzing by on the sofa right behind her in the middle of it. Huge bundle of fur, growling and hissing, shot past and she just carried on like a pro Teachers were amused.

@PeterPandemic

LadyCatStark Jon Snow Jr. Long curly hair in a man bun and Kit Harrington glasses. Sadly ruined by bad lighting (under the chin) and airline pilot headphones with attached big microphone.

I’m going to need to know which school this is so I can move my child immediately 😂

My dd watching live english lesson when teachers toddler bursts into the room to announce she'd done a big poo 👍🤣 . Lesson abandoned!

When dd's teacher (year 2) asked if there were any questions about the story she'd just read to be followed by 5 different children showing off their newly lost teeth and gums close up to their cameras and at least another 6 children saying it was their birthday soon (ranging from this coming Monday up to April 😄) makes me and dd chuckle a lot.

The teacher also picked on dd as she thought she was asking a question but had in fact just put her hand up to turn on a lamp cue rabbit in the headlights expression from dd.