What have YOU learnt from helping your kids this week?

[Workyticket]

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!

That “magpie” is now used as a verb - in Yr 6 English the kids are encouraged to magpie nice turns of phrase from other writing.
Also the thing of Australasia having been renamed as Australia and Oceania(?)
Also that the interval between a B and a C in music is a semi tone, not a tone

How in inbred the Greek gods were and that there are 12 of them. Also that my 10yo is distracted by thoughts not relevant to the subject every couple of minutes and really needs some help.

Arrays in maths (year 2). We were never taught this I'm sure.
Thankfully no fronted adverbials yet. But DH and I are both of the time when grammar simply wasn't taught in any depth so that's our excuse to blatantly google the grammar questions. I have a degree in English Lit, but took English Language classes for a year as well. The lecturer was quite shocked at our lack of grammar knowledge.

I have learnt that a lot of people don't use books at all. Everything is done on a laptop or some other tech and they don't use dictionaries/thesaurus reference books or any other books.
That I really do love the smell of paper.
That parenting must have been much harder before Google.
And I probably should already have noticed this, but that my hand is not flat. Doing hand prints with the kids today (4, aged 3-11) and the little ones hands were flat so they got a whole print, but mine have a dip in the middle so there's a gap in the print.

@HerRoyalNotness

Actually there's shedloads (actually fuckloads fits here due to the way gods beget other gods and demigods) of Gods, particularly if you like the personified concepts (like Thanatos Death and Hypnos Sleep and Eris Strife etc. There's 12 Olympian Gods, but even then they change about and sensible Hestia might have quit and let Dionysus take over her seat.

(not from school learning this week)

I did learn this week that Dionysus can be pronounced a couple of ways, neither of which I was quite getting right. As he's the God of Wine I feel I should have done better.

@infinitediamonds

Henry Vll learning is happening with lower sixth; part of the Tudor era. I’m loving it; listening in on all the lessons, when I’m meant to be doing my own (less interesting) work! I was surprised to see them covering this as well.

That turtles can breathe through their bums.

@tulippa

That turtles can breathe through their bums.

Olaf taught me that!

That kids should be learning in school and not at home.

Oh if only we weren't in the middle of a world crisis @Seriouslymole 🤷‍♀️

Ahhh great thread. I learnt about energy transfer from a hot environment to a cold environment. Year 7 science. I also learnt that apparently,one way that Christians are advised to help the environment is to pray....

@Workyticket

Oh if only we weren't in the middle of a world crisis *@Seriouslymole* 🤷‍♀️

You're right, I'm a moody old baggage.

I have learnt that the jump between year 6 and year 7 work is pretty big...

I have learned that you never forget Catholic Prayers 😂😂
Dd(5) told me very seriously that you have to say your prayers before you start your work in the morning. I'm more than happy to leave her praying at the kitchen table😂😂 but she was completely shocked and confused to realise that I also know the same prayers yet I'm not in her class.
I think my child is a nun in waiting😂😂😂

I have learnt what a Venn diagram is, never realised that it had a proper name. We start year 2 animal worksheets this afternoon so who knows what we will discover.

I do now need to learn how to get biro off the sofa and should insist on work being done at the table.

Just in case anyone is interested the National Marine Aquarium are doing a live 20 minute lesson tomorrow afternoon and then onwards each Friday:

www.national-aquarium.co.uk/learning-at-the-aquarium/home-learning-sessions/

When my DS10 was lying on the floor on a theatrical strike because he didn't want to do any more of his literacy I realised that his teacher is a saint ♥️

That the best split digraph I can think of under pressure is shite

Russia really is huge. They’ve over 100 languages and share borders with loads of countries.

How to use SOH/CAH/TOA to find missing angles in a triangle.

They they are arseholes.

How to read 'I want to eat noodles/vegetables/meat/rice' in Mandarin. DS hates it, I'm thinking of taking it up for fun.

Also that the 2 internal base angles in an isosceles triangle are the same.

I will have forgotten it all by tomorrow.