Instead of memorizing the poems in the First Language Lessons books we’ve been using scripture mastery cards for C and primary songs for M. I decided I needed to be more consistent about it. On Mondays we’ll pick the scripture mastery and song for the week and each of the kids will write some of the scripture/song as part of their handwriting practice for the week. I’ll also write out the words and hang it on the fridge so we all get the reminder to work on memorizing those and to have something we can refer back to for later review.

I think all of us are suffering from memory loss these days because there’s so little we have to memorize – we can always look it up quickly online or on our laptop or in the iPhone, right? 🙂 But I think memorization is good for our brains and necessary for some things in life so I hope we can make this a relatively fun way to develop this skill.