Have to agree but my patience is wearing thin now and it’s unfair on my daughter we literally see each other so much it’s becoming tiring, she needs to socialise in fact when her friends FaceTime her we let her go on for hours now just to give us a bit of alone time and she has time with her friends.I know I shouldn’t laugh but every time I see this tread, I can’t help but think of Homer strangling Bart and saying ‘WHY YOU LITTLE!!’
Apologies but my sense of humour is the only thing that’s keeping me sane at the mo!
The last two days I’ve learned what a simple and compound sentence is, I mean seriously why does an 8 year old need to know this, just learn how to spell and write a fucking sentence would be a start. I’m sure as shit never even got taught this in senior school and you know what I’ve never needed to know it. I know one thing home schooling has taught me is that the curriculum needs a fucking overhaul.
Roll on next Monday.
I had a look at it recently because I'm a second language teacher, and it's a shambles. If there's one thing I've learned in 10 years of teaching foreigners English, it's that there's absolutely no link between knowing the names for bits of grammar and being able to actually use it. Unfortunately, the test doesn't check their ability to use the language, just whether they can label bits of grammar.The last two days I’ve learned what a simple and compound sentence is, I mean seriously why does an 8 year old need to know this, just learn how to spell and write a fucking sentence would be a start. I’m sure as shit never even got taught this in senior school and you know what I’ve never needed to know it. I know one thing home schooling has taught me is that the curriculum needs a fucking overhaul.
Roll on next Monday.
Good call mate they actually do that at my daughters school but for some reason I’ve not done it this lockdown, lesson learned I thinkI had a look at it recently because I'm a second language teacher, and it's a shambles. If there's one thing I've learned in 10 years of teaching foreigners English, it's that there's absolutely no link between knowing the names for bits of grammar and being able to actually use it. Unfortunately, the test doesn't check their ability to use the language, just whether they can label bits of grammar.
One of the most effective things you can do for kids' writing is give them silent reading time with a book they've chosen (not one that has been chosen for them because it has particular grammar points in it). Unfortunately, not enough teachers do this because they feel like it's not doing their job to just sit there while the kids read by themselves. But for parents in lockdown, that's exactly what they should have been recommending. Get down to the charity shop and let them pick a few books out.