Earthmerlin Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 We've memorized the 1st part of the Gettysburg Address. My 8 year old delights in this. She likes quoting lines from Shakespeare as well. Shel Silverstein poems tickle her pink. She's got the 50 states down alphabetically. Next week we'll work on pi. I believe memorizing is a good skill to have and helps develop other skills. So long as it's a 'no pressure' atmosphere and couched in meaning (the reciter knows what s/he's saying), I'm digging this new pleasure and mental exercise. What other things are good to memorize? What speeches, poems, verses, etc. do you have your young kids commit to memory? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 My kids have learned the Preamble to the Constitution, beginning of the Declaration of Independence, presidents, poetry, bible verses, states and capitals. WTM has suggestions in the book too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 As far as which bible verses, we started with the memory verses sent home from Sunday school and verses I liked. I asked the grandparents for some of their favorites too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 (edited) We like to do longer Bible passages, poetry, and geography, history, and grammar facts. I get a lot of our poems from the book Favourite Poems Old and New. Edited March 9, 2018 by indigoellen@gmail.com 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenaInTexas Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 (edited) MLK's Mountaintop speech beginning near the end at: 'Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead...' Edited March 9, 2018 by RenaInTexas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rose Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 How about the periodic table song? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 (edited) I've got music history on the brain, that's why I suggest this - when I was in high school, taking music history, we were taught mnemonic tag lines to the famous pieces of music we were supposed to recognize. Little ditties that matched the melodies. So for Eine Kleine Nachtmusik we learned "Eine kleine nachtmusik is this! Written by Herr Mozart, not Herr Liszt!" and for Haydn's Surprise Symphony we learned "Papa Haydn's dead and gone, but his music still lives on. When you hear this melody, you will be SURPRISED" and... oh, I don't know, there were lots of them. I can't hear Mozart's 40th without thinking "I'm not Bach, I'm not Brahms, I am Mozart" and so on. There must be some resource out there with simply scads and scads of these, and if it isn't exactly useful information to have at the tips of your brain, well, at least it does train you to remember things! My parents, at your daughter's age, had us memorize world capitals. Whenever I look back on my childhood, I think of Pippi Longstocking saying that if you're so determined to know the capital of Portugal, you should write to them and ask directly. But that's all right, she's been to Lisbon with her Papa. That knowledge has never come in handy. Not once. Nobody has ever called upon me to tell them the capital of anything. (And yet, I only accidentally memorized that 7! is 5040, and that was astonishingly useful at the most surprising time! So I guess you never know.) Edited March 9, 2018 by Tanaqui 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 (edited) My kids have learned the Preamble to the Constitution, beginning of the Declaration of Independence, presidents, poetry, bible verses, states and capitals. WTM has suggestions in the book too. The Preamble is a good one! We started that during Constitution week. I played the Schoolhouse Rock song for that, which was catchy. Edited March 9, 2018 by Earthmerlin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 MLK's Mountaintop speech beginning near the end at: 'Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead...' Oh, I like this idea! I had thought about an MLK speech but it slipped my mind. Thanks for reminding me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 How about the periodic table song? Yes! Great idea! Is this found on YouTube? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 I've got music history on the brain, that's why I suggest this - when I was in high school, taking music history, we were taught mnemonic tag lines to the famous pieces of music we were supposed to recognize. Little ditties that matched the melodies. So for Eine Kleine Nachtmusik we learned "Eine kleine nachtmusik is this! Written by Herr Mozart, not Herr Liszt!" and for Haydn's Surprise Symphony we learned "Papa Haydn's dead and gone, but his music still lives on. When you hear this melody, you will be SURPRISED" and... oh, I don't know, there were lots of them. I can't hear Mozart's 40th without thinking "I'm not Bach, I'm not Brahms, I am Mozart" and so on. There must be some resource out there with simply scads and scads of these, and if it isn't exactly useful information to have at the tips of your brain, well, at least it does train you to remember things! My parents, at your daughter's age, had us memorize world capitals. Whenever I look back on my childhood, I think of Pippi Longstocking saying that if you're so determined to know the capital of Portugal, you should write to them and ask directly. But that's all right, she's been to Lisbon with her Papa. That knowledge has never come in handy. Not once. Nobody has ever called upon me to tell them the capital of anything. (And yet, I only accidentally memorized that 7! is 5040, and that was astonishingly useful at the most surprising time! So I guess you never know.) Pippi's a hoot! Thanks for the music idea! We geek out on that stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 For anyone interested, the link below has some really good poems (w/ activities) for kids to memorize. We're working slowly hrough the list. https://www.mensaforkids.org/read/a-year-of-living-poetically/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 So far we've done: Nursery rhymes The Jabberwocky I'm Nobody (Emily Dickinson) The Flag (William Bennett) Months of the year poem Verb endings Noun cases Newton's Laws Next year we'll be tying more to history rather than the simple sentences we've done: The beginning of the Declaration The Preamble Washington's Rules of Civility (only a handful) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamanthaCarter Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 IEWs Poetry Memorization is a fantastic collection. It’s not just poetry, it has speeches too. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted March 11, 2018 Author Share Posted March 11, 2018 (edited) Lol- that school house rock song is still in my brain 30+ years later. Now I’ll be thinking “We the people....†all day. :) Just in case you needed that ear worm to dig a lil' deeper.... https://youtu.be/yHp7sMqPL0g Edited March 11, 2018 by Earthmerlin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted March 11, 2018 Author Share Posted March 11, 2018 My kids have learned the Preamble to the Constitution, beginning of the Declaration of Independence, presidents, poetry, bible verses, states and capitals. WTM has suggestions in the book too. Sorry, perhaps I overlooked it but I don't see a list mentioned in the book for this age set (8 years old). Do you know which page or section? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Sorry, perhaps I overlooked it but I don't see a list mentioned in the book for this age set (8 years old). Do you know which page or section? In a quick skim thorough my 2nd? edition, pages 116 and 117 has memory suggestions for 2nd and 3rd grade related to history. Page 794 of the index lists some other pages where memorization is discussed. I don’t have my 4th edition handy, but I’m sure it contains similar information. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lots of little ducklings Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 (edited) Yes! Great idea! Is this found on YouTube? I'm not RoseM.... But thinking she meant the ASAP Science version on youtube. My kids have loved learning this. We converted it to mp3 and play it in the van. Our version is a couple of years older than what I see now (not the "updated 2018") , but for our version you can find slower recordings out there, and an instrumental-only version too. Edited March 11, 2018 by Lotsoflittleducklings 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Peanuts Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Elements Song by Tom Lehrer. Just search for it on YouTube and it’ll pop up. There’s even a video of Daniel Radcliffe singing it. As if I couldn’t love Harry Potter any more! :) I wanted to 2nd (or 3rd?) IEW’s Linguistic Development through Poetry collection. Level One has some great age-appropriate poems for the younger set. I’ve been working through it with my DS8 and he’s already got some 35 poems under his belt. I admit that Level 2 of the IEW program has some poems that didn’t inspire us so I switched them out with more whimsical selections from Fujikawa’s A Child’s Book of Poems. I also supplemented with poems by diverse authors since the poets in Level 2 are predominantly white males. I used Poetry Foundation’s website to find some good ones. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Living Memory is the only resource you will ever need. Brain Beats CDs are cool. Earworms Foreign Language CDs are fun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaLisa Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 We've memorized: the poems in IEW's Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization grammar lists -- prepositions, Shurley English jingles Declaration of Independence Gettysburge Address chapters of scriptures (Psalm 1, 8, 19, 23, 51; Romans 8, 12; 1 Cor 13; Phillipians 2; etc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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