To support homeschooling mums.

[Jlpst]

One to support you mums at this strange time, or just relieve the boredom, make you laugh. I am a primary school teacher,ask me anything.!

You u mean the site that is labelled "by parents for parents"?

This website is called Mumsnet. OP is hardly sexist to assume that most of the users are mums!

Sorry, I may be pedantic but I have to say it. Just mums? Seems odd for a primary teacher to say that when surely children in your class would come from a variety of family backgrounds with various types of guardians - dads, grandparents, foster carers...

It's so tedious when people assume it is the mothers doing all the donkey work.

@Jlpst

My ks1 son HATES writing. He has always been behind in this area and after exhaustive meetings and reports his school don’t think he has a diagnosable condition (although his teacher nods along with me when I say he is somewhere on the spectrum). I was very happy leaving the English side to the school and doing extra maths at home when he was heading towards his SATS, but now of course it’s all down to me.

He really struggles with writing imaginative work. He finds it easier just to copy words from a book. We try and do writing every other day and he will do some drawing too. With the imaginative stuff we’ve been reading short stories together and then I’ve written a question for him to try and encourage him to write about the story or the character or to come up with an alternative ending etc. Sometimes he runs with it, often he just can’t do it and will get himself into a state.

Any advice? 😬😬

Have another 🙄

Digraph NOT diAgraph. It’s 2 letters that make 1 sound like ‘ch’ ‘ea’ ‘ai’.
You can also have a trigraph where 3 letters make 1 sound like ‘tch’ or ‘dge’.

What a lovely gesture OP

I have a nursery aged child who is ready to learn the number 10 to 20. She can count them but doesn’t understand what they mean. I’ve never realised how illogical the teen numbers are before. Any tips to help her learn them?

How do I teach blending? She is following read write inc.

@self try counting objects to give meaning, like dry pasta shapes. Not sure what you mean by illogical numbers.

SoupDragon
Do you only plan to support mums? How will you check they are female?

You really are a specimen
Congrats & well done. You get one of these for your astonishing skills of observation. Enjoy it you silly tool

@justanotherneighinparadise is he able to tell you an imaginative story? If so, can you try to record him on your phone maybe? Some young chn lose the focus when it comes to thinking of a story and then writing it down with all the other writing skills they need to remember.If he stores his imaginative ideas, then he can focus on playing it back and writing it down so breaking it down into two separate tasks. We use voice recorders in school for this sometimes.

For blending, some children enjoy the Jack Hartman videos on YouTube.

That’s a bloody fantastic idea!! Yes, he can verbalise an imaginative story and also does lots and lots of role playing with his younger sibling. So he definitely has an imagination. He struggles hugely with concentration so it makes sense it would be difficult for him to write and formulate his thoughts at the same time.

When he has completed a page of writing he is really pleased with himself and shows it off to everyone. So he gets the feel-goods afterwards.

I shall try your suggestion tomorrow and report back. Thank you ♥️

You’re welcome. Good luck!

Thank you.
1 = one
11 = eleven
21 = twenty one
31 = thirty one

Numbers from 10 to 20 don’t fit the rest of the pattern.

Ok I see. Well, when your child learned 1-10 there was no pattern for them to refer to but they learned them. Treat 11-20 the same; new words to learn. After eleven and twelve, the teens kick in and children pick up the repetitive pattern quite quickly. As with lots of learning at this age it’s repetition so count often not just when ‘learning’ so up the stairs, how many clouds, how many hairbrush strokes etc

Well I skimmed the op and had a few things I thought I might ask but the thread has been so horribly derailed I expect the poster has moved on.
If you are still reading, any tips how to teach my reception child about split digraphs. She's really got the hang of all the sounds, phonemes etc and reads all the phase 3 words but the split digraph thing hasn't been covered at school yet and it seems like the next step. However I can't seem to find a way to help her understand, especially as there are so many exceptions! My eldest just seemed to understand it without any input from me so wondering if there's a way you teach them? Thanks for the offer of help. I don't feel I can ask our school, we had some contact from them but it had quite a strong underlying message of, see you when we see you!

Just reread that your DD can count them, which is great! With recording them, it’s just practising often as she did 1-10. But really, she’s ahead of the game.

Thanks everyone, I've found some modelling clay at the back of the big cupboard (unused bday present) so will try and play with that this afternoon.

Selfsettling3 numberblocks on cbeebies has episodes on teen and bigger numbers, 4 year old DS loves it and seems to understand the concepts behind it.

Soup dragon has a point.

It's not just mum's home schooling and it's not just mums on here. Staying a fact, not being nasty. Targeting thus at just mum's is not fact its presumptuous and yes indirect sexism where if the shoe was on the other foot many on this post would be feeling a bit miffed.
Again I'm not being mean, just want anyone home schooling at the moment to feel welcome on this post nit just mums.

I’m not sure where the OP has gone but I’m a HLTA in KS1 and teach phonics in y1&2.
A split digraph is where a digraph for example ‘ae’ making an ‘ay’ sound is split in two by another letter such as ‘t’ in ‘ate’. So you write ‘ate’ but you sound ‘aet’. The digraph’s sound or phoneme is still intact as ‘ae’ sounding like ‘ay’ but a naughty or rude letter has pushed in when we write it.

@raydeeo there are videos on YouTube that might help.
When I teach it, it’s a daily short burst of 15/20 mins. I’d write the word but use 2 colours so in the word ‘bake’ I’d write the digraph(ae) in red and the rest in another colour so they quickly recognise the digraph and see where it’s been split.

I dont know any men doing the 'donkey work', just the mums