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Anyone else in this situation? Been doing it for 3 days and already losing the will to live!
Anyone else in this situation? Been doing it for 3 days and already losing the will to live!
I'm helping with my grandchildren - the problems arise when they have to explain the question to me - 'replace the words with digraphs with a different words'
Understood mate. How old is/are yours?
My daughter is nearly 8...her school work is brilliant, but trying to do it at home its a lot of huffing and sighing and “thats enough for today” when she has 6 lessons to finish each day!
Buddha, I would imagine you are a brilliant teacher, your son should be proud to have a father who thinks like you :)
Wonder where he gets it fromThanks Teg. But my boy is 15 now and doesn't want to listen to me about much at all. Bloody teenagers!
Wonder where he gets it from
My niece is 8 and my sibling is also finding the home-schooling very challenging. My advice has been not to worry too much about it as she is only 8. IMO the real worry for chidren that age is that they're not getting to mix and socialise with their peers. Obviously the schoolwork does have some importance but with little hobbits that age I don't think it is anywhere as important as with the older kids who are studying for their GCSEs etc. Another suggestion that I've made is to try to do some fun but educational activities/games rather than get stressed (and have the kid get stressed) trying to complete tasks that the school has set.
Just my opinion. Good Luck with it, I know how challenging it can be.
Throughout most of last year I was doing video one on one lessons with all three grandchildren. Great fun and about to resume again. As a linguist I was giving my 11 year old grandaughter spanish lessons and french refresher lessons and the same for her younger brother. What I concentrated on was speaking the languages and learning vocabulary and not on grammatical rules and irregular verbs.
My grandaughter is so keen on languages that I also gave her some basic russian phrases lessons (phonetically) and also started some basic mandarin chinese (which I did not speak so I could learn with her).
The third grandson aged 7, he of the incredible goal scoring record, is football crazy so I devised quizzes and problem solving based on football. Maths coaching involved sums like "add all goals scored in the PL last weekend" etc.
By basing it for each one according to their particular interests their attentions were maintained. Very enjoyable!
Well his mother rarely wants to listen to what I've got to say either...
it is your destiny
Cheers Buddha. I can speak spanish and french and some very basic russian but not mandarin chinese. I was learning some basic mandarin together with my granddaughter. When she started secondary school in September she was delighted to find that one of her new classmates was chinese so could "show off" with her.You can speak all those languages, Phil? Fair fcking play to you!