Jump to content

Menu

What are your 2nd graders memorizing??


Virginia Heather
 Share

Recommended Posts

Mine is learning his awana verses, poems (spends about 3 weeks per poem), we did Sonnet 18 during the first 12 weeks of school, and then some random things for science (planets) and history (is memorizing the Kings and Queens of England...but I have to admit this is not going as well as I'd hoped. Partly b/c I keep forgetting about it, and then he forgets some and we have to back up.) With FLL he's memorizing some grammar stuff but we skip their poems.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

We spend about five minutes per day on memory work, but we can actually get a lot memorized.

 

Bible verses

Days of creation

excerpt from the Declaration of Independence, year, reason why it was written

Preamble of the Constitution, year, three facts about it

Three facts about the Bill of Rights, year

12 major wars of the U.S.

Presidents

Various goegraphy facts (continents, oceans, longest river, tallest mountain, largest waterfall, largest lake, largest island, largest continent, major deserts...)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

An American history timeline I made up.

A history sentence about what we are learning that week.

Science definitions

Parts of speech definitions and lists

Poetic/literary terms

Skip counting/addition and subtraction facts

Bible verses from Proverbs

 

We alternate what we work on during memory time each day except Bible verses and the American history timeline which we do every day. We only work on it for 15 minutes each day.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

We're working daily on our AWANA verses, and we've memorized the Old/New Testament books. We're slowly working our way through the VP history cards, and this week I plan to start states & capitals (with older brothers). Any other ideas??

 

Oh, states/capitals is a great idea.

 

We're doing 1 Cor. 13. This one is taking us a looong time.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

 Share

×
×
  • Create New...