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scripture memory vs. recitation in CM
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I’d heard of recitation in classical eduation but then saw it scheduled in AO’s weekly plans for Yr 1. So perhaps it was something CM utilized as well? Is there a difference between scripture memory and recitation, or did they do a variety of recitations, some of which happened to be scripture passages? What else do your kids memorize/recite besides scripture? Specifics regarding ages, types of things, and amounts would be great!
We just started our scripture memory box with dd6 last month and have been working on Luther’s Small Catechism which will take a good long while. It seems odd to put poems or other things in our “scripture memory” box but I’ve been wondering if it wouldn’t be good to have her memorize other things as well. In your house is the sm box a family memorization tool and each child also learns their own extra recitations, or does each child have their own box? Right now our box is for dd6 but ds3 could possibly join in without much trouble at this point. Would it be easier to have two boxes going? One for scripture and one for everything else?
I use a similar system, just on paper in a binder. The Catechism sounds like a great place to start! Our family also does timeline, math facts, history and science sentences as a sort of “spine” to go with living books, and we’ve memorized prepositions this way. Other things we’ve memorized are math conversions and poems from Serl’s language lessons books.
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Becca<><
I keep everything in our Scripture Memory Box: Scripture, poetry, math skip counting, speeches my kids learn, etc.
We have only started with scripture memory. We have dd4 and ds2 and the oldest will memorize a verse in 1-2 weeks just reading it at breakfast lunch and dinner. Not sure if that helps because I have not gotten to memorizing more information. I know for sure they will learn the 50 nifty United States song 🙂
We just started the scriptures memorization and wondering why I didn’t start before!?! loving that!
We have done poems memorization too but not a tone. I have one who is very good at memorizing and the other not so much so I don’t want to push it too much!!
We do mostly Scriptures – we’ve added in a few things like their Cub Promise, etc. I would like to do some stuff like poetry as well, but really haven’t yet.
I use ANKI – it is free, and spaces out the review of known “cards” based on how well we are remembering.
I started with a family box – but discovered that not all my kids knew the ones we had already done – and my “next” child wasn’t learning them at all. So they each now have their own ANKI “deck”.
One thing I am going to do (but haven’t yet) is setup “reverse” ANKI cards for the scriptures…. that is a card where I read the scripture, and they tell me the scripture reference….
Suzukimom I like the reverse idea. My oldest has a hard time remembering which scripture is which so some days I could read the scripture and have him guess which one it is.
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