Memory box with longer passages?

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  • September 14, 2009 at 1:41 am
    Abbaschild
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    Anyone memorize longer passages from the Bible with the memory box method?  I can’t figure out how to make that work.  Well, to be fair, I haven’t thought about it extensively – just thought if someone else was already doing it, I could glean from their experience. 

     

     

     

    September 14, 2009 at 2:35 am
    Sonya Shafer
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    We do longer passages regularly. We just do them the same way as the shorter passages: 

    1. Person with the card reads the reference and everyone repeats it.

    2. Person with the card reads aloud the passage one time through and everyone listens. As time progresses, we join in on the parts we remember.

    3. When everyone can join in on the whole passage, we promote the card.

    So for us, the method is the same, it just takes longer to master the passage.

    September 14, 2009 at 4:04 am
    Abbaschild
    Participant

    Thanks, Sonya, for the response.  I was thinking about tackling whole chapters, etc.  I guess you would just have to have it front and back (maybe typed) on several cards and put it in as a “set”? 

    September 14, 2009 at 12:55 pm
    missceegee
    Participant

    We use the pre-printed foundation verse cards that I bought online from http://www.childrendesiringgod.org/product_group.php?id=2 . They have a picture on one side and the verse or part of the verse on the other. For Psalm 1, there were several cards and we just flip through them.

    I’ve found the pictures helpful with the younger kids, esp. I also have their fighter verse cards that we will eventually get to.

    I try to alternate long passages with short ones.

     

    September 14, 2009 at 2:16 pm
    Sonya Shafer
    Moderator

    One thing we’ve done to fit longer passages on a card is to type the passage in a word processing document. I try to reduce the font to make the passage fit my card from top to bottom (Times, font size 10 works well), but I let it go out to the right as far as needed. Then I print the paper and cut it out and tape just the left side onto my card. I fold the right side of the paper back over the card, so it opens like a backwards book. (Hard to describe in words!) 

    September 14, 2009 at 6:52 pm
    Abbaschild
    Participant

    Thanks, Sonya, for explaining how you do that.  I think I’m visualizing it right.  Great idea –

    And, missceegee, thanks for the Desiring God link.  Those do sound good especially for younger children (with the pictures).  I love the Desiring God ministry! (You were speaking my language when you mentioned them LOL)

    September 19, 2009 at 9:02 pm
    mrskatie
    Participant

    I am wondering if people using the memory boxes use the 3×5 or the 4×6 card size. 

    I am gearing up to make one for our family. I have all I need in the 3×5 size but would need to buy dividers to make the 4×6. That would mean a trip to Walmart, and that might not happen for a week or two.

    Any recommendations?

    September 19, 2009 at 9:21 pm
    Sonya Shafer
    Moderator

    I use the 3×5 size box and dividers, but my cards are of various sizes: some are the little memory packet size (1.5 x 3 or so), others I have written on little square cards that we had in a file drawer (3 x 3ish). 

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