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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    
 just as it’s easier to fathom and comprehend the passing of time by looking at the hands of a click face as they mark the passing of the hour, rather than watching the numbers on a digital timepiece click by. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    My hands have arthritis so I can't open them fully. One is 6 ins, other is 7ins. 
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Both of my children use imperial,  can’t remember what they were taught at school but metric is never mentioned.
    I was surprise at modern teaching methods,  granddaughter came to stay last week, she’s starting school this September,  the pre school she’s at teach them a nursery rhyme for their letters,  she needs to recite the rhyme to get to the letter,  it reminded  me of parrot fashion tables we had to do,  if you wanted 9x8 we’d have to start from 1x8.
      Why can’t they just learn what ‘a’ is ,  why have to recite a rhyme first. She had her pen in one hand and doing the actions for apple tree with the other hand.  I hadn’t  got a clue what she was doing for ‘e’ 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited March 2023
    A fer ‘orses and e fer brick in the Cockney alphabet.
    Rutland, England
  • Both my 4 year old grandchildren are learning letter sounds in preschool. They might have learnt rhymes to help with this but they do lots of other activities too.

    I think they've done stuff on weights and measures as well and my 6 year old grandson certainly has.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It sounds to me that you had a 
     "What did you do at school today?"
     " Nothing"
    type conversation with your grandchild @Mrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited March 2023
    Why is it that when a man loiters near a parked car, he kicks a tyre? I've never seen a woman do it.
    Same with chucking babies into the air.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    
 just as it’s easier to fathom and comprehend the passing of time by looking at the hands of a click face as they mark the passing of the hour, rather than watching the numbers on a digital timepiece click by. 

    Apparently many children, and even young adults, can't "read" an analogue clock or watch. They don't understand what the hand positions mean.  They are used to digital displays on phones and other devices.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ...the trick is in catching them again...
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • I did tell my OH that daughter of 3 mths had just finished feeding. Oh the joy of removing his T shirt and cleaning the sofa. I know mums know best but why do people think they know better.
    Southampton 
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