73349 Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 True story: I really had no idea why magnets work until reading some books on the topic to DS today. (I went to public school for K-12 and hold a B.A.) There's a gap, eh? Anybody else learn something new lately? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Pluto is not a planet. W is sometimes a vowel. (When acting with another vowel, as in ow or ew. It replaces u and is the sound making the u sound in ew. Hence, double-u.) I am cool with w being a vowel but want Pluto back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicia64 Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 I've learned so much it's . . . sad. 1) I've learned why to wrap cookies you're sending through the post office so well. . . from our Science Museum demonstrating an egg drop from several floors up. 2) I've learned tons of grammar. 3) I've learned tons of history. 4) I -- FINALLY -- learned where the Uncle Sam guy came from in the old posters, "Uncle Same Wants You!" From US for United States. Well, I didn't know! 5) It goes on and on. Alley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK_Mom4 Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Just recently, I have learned.... that it is possible to actually calculate how long it will take for my cup of coffee to cool to the "perfect" drinking temperature thanks to Newton's Cooling Law and logarithms. The Quagga was a real animal, now extinct Saturn has storms. Including a cool hexagon shaped one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 I've learned so much it's . . . sad. :iagree: I only mention an occasional thing I learned to my husband, if I mentioned them all he would worry, I think! And, I went to a good elementary school, average middle school, good high school, a good college, and got a M.S. from a land grant school with a good reputation, so my M.S. was both practical and educational, most land grant schools are big on practical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 I learned how to draw! I always thought I was terrible at art. Turns out I either didn't have enough guidance or just wasn't trying enough. I have learned quite a bit more geography. You can't count to a googol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Marple Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 I don't think I could even begin to list the things I've learned while home educating my boys. I was a STEM major so, for me, delving into literature and writing was an eye opening experience. Although I read a lot growing up, even some that are considered classics, I never really studied them. Practical skills: patience, mercy, compassion, grace, discipline, being a good drill sergeant, creative consequences...oh, the list goes on and on. Truly it has shaped me as a person, not just academically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staceyshoe Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 History! I thought I had a decent education, but I knew *nothing*! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 I've improved my mental arithmetic abilities greatly! I was never bad, but now I think it's fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmrich Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Grammar. I also love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama27 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 I've learned way more since I started homeschooling than I ever did in school. But the most recent thing is that home mail delivery started during the Civil War and that the last Civil War vet died in the 1950's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momacacia Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 I've learned more than I've forgotten for sure. And, realized how education is, in a very real sense, wasted on the young because they will forget so much. Of course, now I'm old and sleep deprived and can't remember anything either. Wait ... why are we doing any of this anyway. Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Pluto is not a planet. W is sometimes a vowel. (When acting with another vowel, as in ow or ew. It replaces u and is the sound making the u sound in ew. Hence, double-u.) I am cool with w being a vowel but want Pluto back. LOL! My very educated mother now serves noodles at my house, instead of nine pizzas. My kids are big fans of the TapQuizMaps app or whatever it's called, so they're learning European geography. I keep having to stop myself to say "Czech Republic" and "Slovakia." They're fascinated when I tell them that when I was their age, it was all completely different. I had a BLAST last year when we did Ancients. My degree is in medieval history, and I'm pretty decent in US history and had a basic exposure to early modern and modern world history -- but nothing in ancient history at all. So that was pretty cool. I also love learning the Singapore way of doing math. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daffodil Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Mental math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethben Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Grammar. When I was looking for a grammar program and asked my husband to help, I said, "Should I get the one that he does on his own or the one I have to teach him." He then asked me what a verb was. I had NO IDEA! So, we bought the grammar that I had to teach and I have since realized diagramming sentences is fun. Beth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 My kids are big fans of the TapQuizMaps app or whatever it's called, Ooh, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Pluto is not a planet. W is sometimes a vowel. (When acting with another vowel, as in ow or ew. It replaces u and is the sound making the u sound in ew. Hence, double-u.) I am cool with w being a vowel but want Pluto back. It actually still is a planet. The group that decided it wasn't a planet didn't have a quorum. So, the vote wasn't valid. They split the difference and call it a "Dwarf Planet" now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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