poetry memorisation

My kids have so much Scripture memorization with Awana that I don’t make them do any additional memorizing.

My children choose one poem per poet study (at the end of the study when they can choose a favorite) to memorize during the next poet study. We put them in our scripture memory box and just do them that way. We haven’t had any difficulty, but perhaps it’s because they choose their own favorites.

Like Christie, we put poetry memorization in our scripture memory box. I also let my kids pick out their own poem to memorize. This year, though, we are in a memory co-op (similar to Classical Conversations), so we aren’t doing any extra memory work beyond that and scripture passages.

We take one poem for each six weeks and say it together each day before we read our “poem of the day” 🙂 at the end of the six weeks they may have it completely memorized, or if it is long just parts of it, but they know the general flow. I don’t push memorization. We more enjoy it and get to know it. Right now we are doing Wynken, Blynken, and Nod. It is kind of long but we love it. I doubt it will be rattled off perfectly by memory in six weeks but parts of it will stick. My dd6 usually memorizes the whole thing easily, but my other two do not always get it all.

Tara