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Scripture Memory System Question
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I have our year planned and am finishing things to start on Tuesday, we are all excited! I will have a dd in K and dd in 2nd and we did scripture memory last year through a Wednesday night church program. We are not doing that program this coming year so I want to start the SCM memory system. I have the box and dividers purchased and labeled but I have two questions.
First, it says to label all the days of the week, including Saturday and Sunday. I don’t want to use this on the weekends so can I just take those days out or will it screw things up?
Second, the instructions say to divide any verses you already know evenly between the dividers in the box. I would love to include the 35 verses we learned last year, but do you do that for all 12 years? Won’t that be a ton of verses each day? I am not saying I don’t want to make work of memorizing, but by the end of this past year we were saying 35 verses per day and that took forever! Do verses ever get “retired” from the box or do you keep them in there forever?
Thanks for all your help and I pray those of you starting your years up this coming week have a blessed time!
If you aren’t going to practice your verses on Saturday and Sunday, take those dividers out of the box so you don’t put any verses that are practiced on that day.
As for the number of verses, I’m not sure how many you would end up having over the 12 years…. but you said you learned 35 verses last year. When you divide those over the 30 days in a month, that is 1 verse that you have to practice from those a day… 2 on 5 of the days of the week.
So assuming you learned the same number each year… after 12 years, that would be 420 verses to be “keeping up”… which divided over the 30 days ends up being 14 that you will say each day from the review each day. then add in the 1 for the day of the week it is, and add in 1 for the day being either odd or even, and 1 more for you new verse you are saying daily – and that is 17 verses. Much shorter than the 35 you said each day last year in your old system – and that is only after you have 12 years worth of scriptures memorized…
I hope that helped???
After reading your post, I decided to time our Scripture Memory this morning. In the numbered slot for today (behind the “4” divider), we had these verses:
- Romans 8:38, 39
- Psalm 100
- John 4:24
- Acts 24:16
- Psalm 27:1
- Romans 10:13
- Galatians 5:22, 23
If you count the multiples, that makes a total of 13 verses. It took 3 minutes. It seems like we can get through many verses in a short amount of time once they are solidly learned.
You might want to take 14 of your verses and say them aloud — one after the other, along with their references — and see how long it will take. We usually have the “keeper of the cards” say the reference, then everyone repeats the reference together, recites the verse, and says the reference again at the end. Next card.
It’s wonderful that you want to keep these verses in front of your children every month, so they will become deeply engrained in their heads and their hearts!
Thanks for your help. Dividing it up like that makes so much sense, not sure why I didn’t think of that. Probably getting down to the last few days before school starts I was just putting too much pressure on myself. I think 17 verses a day by the time you have 12 years or so in is not too bad, in fact I think it would be great. I have a hard time with memorization myself and this will help me do something that I long to be better at. Crossing that off my list right now and I only have two more things to accomplish before Tuesday (fill our weekly activity drawer and print my K’s 1st copywork pages)! Have a great year everyone!
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