We've been trying to figure out our magic way to learn bible verses for Sam.
So far Joe's have been fairly short and manageable. Sam's have begun to get
longer and he hasn't been exactly excited about learning them.
I told him he that his teacher had promised a prize if he learned 3 big verses
by the time Discovery Club came around again...his response was
that is ok mom, I have enough stuff.
Hmm, well ok little man, you are gonna learn them anyway!
I wrote them out we jumbled them out and he arranged them into the correct order.
He played this a few rounds, working with the words and associating them along the way.
But the real trick was recording him saying the verses and letting him watch them over
and over (and over)...I mean kids love to watch themselves on video. And it was portable.
He watched it a lot on the way to school in the morning.
When Wednesday night rolled around mama was a little under the weather and called reinforcements to teach her class and DH took the boys. He helped Sam find his teacher and say all three verses and he earned his prize. DH and Sam were proud, I was too and was excited that he was proud he stuck with it too. I took him as an extra reward to lunch on Thursday. This meant he got to leave school a bit. That was a real treat.
We have also been keeping our learned verses in a little index card book, as to keep track of those words commmited to our hearts.
