School is rolling along here and as usual I'm always looking for ways to enhance and reinforce ideas and concepts that we are learning about.  This weekend I am going to work on putting together a memory box for the boys.  I'm going to get a plastic file folder hanger box thingy with a folder for each day of the week.  Each day of the week I am going to have them work on memorizing something of importance for different areas.  There are so many things that I want them to know and  think will be beneficial for them when they take college entrance exams and just want them to have as a base of knowledge to draw from.  I think I will set it up something like this:

Monday:  Work on memorizing the 50 states and their capitols

Tuesday:  Work on memorizing the planets

Wednesday:  Work on memorizing the Great Lakes

Friday:  Work on memorizing geometric shapes or some math conversion like how many quarts in a gallon type thing.

Once they have mastered whatever is in the folder for the day, which could vary for each child, then I will check them off and put something new in for that day.  So once they're done memorizing the 50 states they will work on filling in a blank map from memory.  I will also make it a spiral memory curriculum so that they will come back to previously memorized things just to further cement it into their minds.  I'm thinking this will be a good tool for them to use when I get busy with changing a diaper or I get a phone call or any other inevitable interruption that happens on a daily basis!  You have those too don't you??   It will be easy enough for them to go to the hanging folder and pull out their sheet for that day and quietly work without time being wasted.  We seem to have a lot of time that flies away because I do have two little ones around that require much care and attention.  I got this idea from someone else's blog sometime last year and have just never implemented it.  I tucked it away for just the right time and now seems as good a time as any! 

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