Fun Facts & Memorization (3rd-6th)

[Fun Facts Activities and Memorization 3rd-6th}

Grades: 3-6

Course Description: 

“Fun Facts” uses songs, games, and activities to help students memorize facts and concepts that they will need in their elementary years and beyond.

Each week we will learn a new catechism question/answer (from the New City Catechism), as well as a new song that will introduce a set of facts. During the remainder of the class we will review songs, play games, discuss content, and do activities that reinforce what’s being learned and memorized. Each class culminates in a snack and quiet activity as we listen to the class playlist — followed by a raffle prize winner (tickets are earned by doing homework and learning the facts).

To encourage at-home memorization, students will be tested each month on the chosen list of the month (for example: labeling a US map, reciting the books of the Bible, labeling the planets, listing the presidents, filling out a portion of the periodic table, etc.). 

For homework, students will be required to review songs, memorize a catechism answer, and spend 20 minutes on a learning app that will help them memorize and label states, and learn various facts about the presidents. You will not need to purchase any curriculum outside of these apps. 

If your student took the younger fun facts class, they will learn lots of new content in this older class. (There is a little overlap, but not much)

Below are examples of facts/concepts we will memorize:

Social Studies

Facts about ancient civilizations

State capitals

Presidents

The Gettysburg Address

Historical events like the Boston Tea party

Preamble to the Constitution

Science

Scientific method

Periodic table

Muscle groups

Bone groups

Body systems

Classification of living things

Bible

New City Catechism questions 27-52

10 commandments

The books of the Bible

Psalm 23

12 Tribes

40 events of Scripture

Paul’s missionary journeys 

Math

Skip counting 6-9

Prime numbers

Order of Operations

Steps for dividing fractions

Steps for long division

Types of angles and lines

English

Helping verbs

The 8 parts of speech

Preposition words

Pronouns

Adverbs

Linking verbs

Cost Per Semester: 250, plus $15 supply fee

Textbook, workbooks, or materials needed for class: 

All materials will be given. The only purchase will be the at-home learning apps. 

Payment Methods: 

Venmo:  @lucas-pace

Check made out to: Heather Pace 

Email:  [email protected]

Bio: Heather Pace is a homeschooling mother of 6. She’s a pastor’s wife and has been partnering with her husband in ministry at Compass Bible Church since 2005. Heather was educated at Biola University where she majored in Intercultural studies and minored in Bible. She also earned a teaching credential in elementary education. Before motherhood, Heather taught 6th grade at Saddleback Valley Christian School. She now has the privilege of teaching her kids, teaching at PC Prep, and teaching kids, teen girls, and women at her church. In her spare moments she enjoys writing, and she blogs at Truth4Women.com.