Memory Work

A great benefit of homeschooling is customizing your family's memory work! I was excited to pick out what the girls and I would memorize this year. They did memory work at their private school in the past but it was very short and scattered throughout the Bible. This year, I chose three longer passages (one per term) that we are going to work our way through.

First up is Proverbs chapter 3 (35 verses)- averaging 2 verses a week. We are doing a little more than that right now, and that's okay because review is good too. As of right now we have memorized 3:1-10 and have only been at it for 11 days!  The girls memorize pretty easily though! Probably better than I do.

Next term we will be doing Colossians 3:1-25 and then for our last term we will be doing Ephesians 6: 1-20 and then probably another shorter passage like Psalm 1, since the Ephesians passage is a little shorter.

In addition, I plan to have them memorize 2 poems each term (so six poems total)- of their choice from the selections we have been reading.

I also forgot to mention that we will all be memorizing six hymns (all verses) over the course of the year... those that I felt are important to learn and know.

AND !!! they are going to memorize their times/addition tables!!! I am shocked at how difficult this is... especially for one of them.  Anyways, hopefully this will help to shore up their basic math skills.