Learn With Me

I have this eery feeling that I'm ripping off someone's blog or book with the title "Learn With Me" but I hope not. I decided when I created the blog that it made sense to me. As I have taken on home schooling, I feel like I am learning right along with my children. Yesterday, Sterling and I were reading about Alkali Metals and Lithium was the first in the series. In just emphasizing three facts about lithium and what it is used in I think I have a better idea of one more element on the periodic table, albeit a common one. Chemistry always seemed so out there to me. I loved the math parts of chemistry, but all the memorizing of the elements was overwhelming because I was memorizing names and places and symbols and electrons and neutrons and protons without the practical uses. I was trying to figure out what lost an electron in a compound. I missed a lot. Hopefully, by taking it slow and enjoying the Basher book about the elements and the periodic table (LOVE it) and by introducing my children to the elements a little at a time--they'll have a better base on chemistry when they study it more in depth at a later point.

In the meantime, I'll be better versed in those foundations that somehow I skipped over. I thought I was well-read until I saw the list of one-hundred classics that The Thomas Jefferson Education put together. I thought I knew a little something about history until I read the guidelines of important people your child should learn about in certain periods of history--and I knew maybe half of the names (and that's being somewhat generous for my pride's sake).

Humbled, I realized when embarking on my children's education I have so much still to learn. Hence, the "Learn With Me" title of this blog.