My Daughter and Grandson are Memory Masters

My grandchildren are in their fourth year of the Classical Conversations Home School program. In a previous blog I shared how this was all new to me and it took me awhile to wrap my mind around it.

I have to say that I am very impressed with the caliber of education being offered to them through this program. The purpose statement is:

• The purpose of education is to know God and make Him known.
• They combine classical learning with a biblical worldview.
• In Classical Conversations communities, parents equip parents and encourage students.  

Each year they have a criteria of what is to be taught and the opportunity to have the children and their parents memorize many of the pertinent facts. This year there were 400 pieces of information that had to be memorized.  

• 161 events and people in a chronological timeline.
• 44 U. S. presidents.
• 24 history sentences to add depth to the timeline. 
• 120 locations and geographic features in Africa, Europe, and the Old World.
• 24 science facts (including classifications of living things and each continent's highest mountain)  
•  5 Latin noun endings and their singular and plural declensions
• English grammar facts (including 53 prepositions, 23 helping verbs, and 12 linking verbs) 
• Multiplication tables up to 15x15, common squares and cubes, as well as basic geometry formulas and unit conversions. 

My daughter Lisa, who is also a director of her CC community, and her 10 year old son Jonathan decided to go the extra mile and learn the memory master information.  They are tested on this information and it takes over an hour to recite it all and they are not allowed to miss one fact. They worked diligently on this goal and both passed!

Memory Masters - Lisa and Jonathan

At the closing ceremonies Lisa and Jonathan were presented with the memory master medal.  Needless to say we were so proud of them! It was a wonderful accomplishment and doing it together was a wonderful bonding experience between mother and son.