Update:

Rhonda pointed out in the comments that this system is recommended over at Simply Charlotte Mason. Click over there because they do a better job of explaining it than I do, PLUS they've got a lot of other great info. Thanks Rhonda!

Over the years in homeschool, church and Community Bible Study, the kids have had a lot of memory work to do. Lots of Bible verses, of course, mixed in with poetry and other literature readings.

What I found, though, was that they would memorize the passage, move on to the next one, and promptly forget the one they just learned!

It's enough that they forget to do their chores and trim their nails, but forgetting all that memory work that we spent hours on was driving me a leetle beet crazy.

So last school year I devised a system, that I'm sure some much wiser homeschooler told me about, but I promptly forgot who it was. No, the irony is not lost on me.

Here it is:



Now some of you crafty folks will be able to make this much cuter and fun than I did. But I used what I had on hand so it was FREE. Ha.

This is how it works:

When we learn a new passage, or group of latin vocabulary words, or poem or whatever, it goes into the "daily" file. We work on it every day at breakfast. Once it is mastered it moves into the "odd" or "even" file, and whatever was there gets bumped to a Monday through Friday slot, and the item bumped from there gets put into a dated slot.

So everything we memorize gets practiced until it is firmly in our brains, and from then on it comes around at least once a month.

I'm pleased to tell you that it works. We've been using this system for about a year, and we all seem to remember things as they come back around.

I'm off to put a toenail clipper in the Friday slot.

Labels: Bible study, Homeschooling