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What have YOU learnt from helping your kids this week?

71 replies

Workyticket · 10/01/2021 23:43

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!

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Lupinhere37 · 10/01/2021 23:49

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 nowGrin

buckleten · 10/01/2021 23:50

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

Lupinhere37 · 10/01/2021 23:50

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!!

Workyticket · 10/01/2021 23:51

@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!

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Workyticket · 10/01/2021 23:52

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

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ILoveAnOwl · 10/01/2021 23:59

That snails hibernate.

megletthesecond · 11/01/2021 00:03

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

PutYourBackIntoit · 11/01/2021 00:16

@ILoveAnOwl really?? Just into their shells??

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

2020out · 11/01/2021 00:26

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!

Luckyrabbitfoot · 11/01/2021 00:30

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

KeyboardWorriers · 11/01/2021 00:55

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

Workyticket · 11/01/2021 08:03

@iloveanowl wow - who knew!?

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Scaredykittycat · 11/01/2021 08:09

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.

LynetteScavo · 11/01/2021 08:24

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 Hmm.

ForeverBubblegum · 11/01/2021 08:46

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

ForeverBubblegum · 11/01/2021 08:49

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.

2020out · 11/01/2021 18:30

@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!
EcoCustard · 11/01/2021 19:18

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. Grin.

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).

slfk3 · 11/01/2021 19:24

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

Hazelnutlatteplease · 11/01/2021 19:31

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

grumpypug · 11/01/2021 19:34

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

PhantomErik · 11/01/2021 19:40

That my times tables could do with some work!

Mol1628 · 11/01/2021 19:43

Perfect present tense.

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

Luckyrabbitfoot · 13/01/2021 14:07

@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!
Mol1628 · 13/01/2021 20:08

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!