Every year, I have a list of things I’d like the kids to memorize. Some of it is {of course} dependent on their ages. Not all of my children are memorizing all of these. Many of the items on the list are simply a review from previous years – refreshing their memories.
Here is what’s on our list this year:
The Girl Scout Promise
The Cub Scout Promise
The Girl Scout Law
The Law of the Pack
The presidents {in order}
The Preamble to the Constitution
The Pledge of Allegiance
“Happy Thought” by Robert Louis Stevenson
“Whole Duty of Children” by Robert Louis Stevenson
“Rain” by Robert Louis Stevenson
“The Months”
“In Flanders Fields” by Lt Col. John McCrae
“Blind But Happy” by Fanny Crosby
“I’m Glad”
“Beautiful”
“Love Between Brothers and Sisters” by Isaac Watts
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
“Dreams” by Langston Hughes
“True Nobility” by Edgar Guest
“I Never Saw a Moor” by Emily Dickinson
“All Things Beautiful” by Cecil Alexander
“Mr. Meant-To”
“Try, Try Again”
“Results and Roses” by Edgar Guest
“Fog” by Carl Sandburg
The Army Song
The Air Force Song
The Navy Song
The Marines Song
“A Child’s Prayer”
“A Smile”
“Hearts Are Like Doors”
“If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking” by Emily Dickinson
“Mr. Nobody”
“Bed in Summer” by Robert Louis Stevenson
“If You Were”
“Count That Day Lost” by George Eliot
“My Gift” by Christina Rossetti
“The Grass” by Emily Dickinson
“Who Has Seen the Wind?” by Christina Rossetti
“The Purple Cow” by Gilette Burgess
“Mice” by Rose Fyleman
“Good Books” by Edgar Guest
“Trees” by Joyce Kilmer
“The Goops” by Gilette Burgess
“The Arrow and the Song” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“You Musn’t Quit” by Edgar Guest
“Thoughts”
“The Sin of Omission” by Margaret Sangster
“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll
“Bear in There” by Shel Silverstein
“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout” by Shel Silverstein
“Daffodils” by William Wordsworth
I consider the poem memorized when they can recite it in front of the camera. I won’t necessarily post it {they are camera shy}, but it’s nice that they can watch themselves recite it and improve.
When they have memorized a piece, I add it to their memorization page.
You can download the page as a PDF by clicking on the image below.
