What have YOU learnt from helping your kids this week?

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Fronted adverbial for me - in a past life I was a primary school teacher but I still had to Google it!

Year 4 ds seemed to know what his teacher was on about though and cracked on!

This week I appear to have become an expert on Henry VII’s relationship with the Church and can now spout all kinds of fun facts on the establishment of Grammar Schools during the Tudor times.
In fact, I feel I could be a contestant on Mastermind with this subject now

Heads, shoulders knees and toes... in German!!

Despite having an English A Level, I have just had to Google what a fronted adverbial is, as well!
Every day is a school day!!

@Lupinhere37 I'm definitely trying to embrace the positives! I do a weekly pub quiz online with friends - if frobted adverbials don't come up next week I'll feel proper cheated!

I have an English A level too (I got a bloody A!) The shame!

That snails hibernate.

Sitting in on 14yr old DS's science lesson I learnt about diatomic molecules, things made of two atoms.

@ILoveAnOwl really?? Just into their shells??

That 'initial velocity' is impossible to explain in your own words!!

Don't worry about never having heard of fronted adverbial before. They were invented for the new national curriculum! Weirdly, it's one of the things the children do remember and use!

English degree here and I had to google ‘extended noun phrase’. Oh, the shame. DD is 6!

That New England is a region of the USA containing several states! I always thought it was a state!

@iloveanowl wow - who knew!?

What a synonym is. Which is mad as I have an English a level. And now I know I can’t believe I didn’t know.

That's pasteurised milk is so called because of Louis Pasteur, who originated to process of pasteurisation. The fact that I'd never twigged about this before has cases DD and DH much amusement .

That two sticks you hit together are called claves (though in our house they're the handles of 2 wooden spoons)

More importantly, I learnt the words to a song that causes my 4yo to tidy away his toys. It's almost like a pavlovian response.

@ForeverBubblegum

More importantly, I learnt the words to a song that causes my 4yo to tidy away his toys. It's almost like a pavlovian response.

EYFS teachers are full of magic!

DD’s reception teacher uses “Choose it, use it, put it away” to a song. She started singing it and magically she and her older brother started tidying. .

I learnt about split diagraphs today. Ds6 had me pulling my hair out today when I finally cajoled him into some phonics practice (he is somewhat behind).

That Australia has been renamed as Oceania as a continent. And that 6 year olds are too young for RE.

Alot of the syllabus is completely irrelevant to modern life and reliant on memory.

How to make an animation video using PowerPoint. Will come in really useful

That my times tables could do with some work!

Perfect present tense.

Which I understand is actually past tense but said in a different way. Utterly bonkers.

@Mol1628

Perfect present tense.

Which I understand is actually past tense but said in a different way. Utterly bonkers.

Not always! It could be something ongoing too...such as ‘I have lived here since 2002’. It isn’t past, because it’s still happening. I bloody hate the tenses though!

Right I see. Well thank you to my sons teacher for providing a power point for it because clearly I have no idea! But he seems to get it 🤷‍♀️ I was sure there were only three tenses when I was at school!