A recent Google Alert led me to Lisa's blog, Home School Evangelist.
Lisa has a Powerful Learning Trick:
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All you have to do is ask the child to document in some way the jist of what was learned in each subject that day. Younger children can draw a picture. Older children can write a few sentences.
Boring? So non-creative? Ah, therein lies the secret.
When we read information, we can move through quickly, get to the end of the book and then if someone asked us what we learned from that text, we say, “Uhm, well, see, it’s about… uhm… Well, hand it here again…”
But if two minutes are taken at the end of each chapter to form a two sentence synopsis of what the chapter was about, WOW! That information ends up rubber cemented to the brain. If the child talks about what she’s learned within 24 hours, and actually explains those two sentences to someone, the info ends up super-glued to the brain.
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This makes a lot of sense. I'll talk with Janine to see if maybe we should get each of our daughters a notebook and have them write two sentences after each lesson. Maybe we should try it for two weeks and see what happens.
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1 comment:
It's kind of like notebooking! We do it. My kids can opt to draw a picture, write something, do copywork of a quote, paint, color - basically anything - to help them remember it later. Then later, when they're showing Dad what they've done, or the grandparents, the memories get cemented even further. See my blog for a few of our WW2 notebooking pages. http://homeschoolhome.blogspot.com
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