Poetry Memorization

The Mother of Divine Grace syllabus has my kids memorizing poetry which is really sweet. Emily is working on The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear. It is rather long so we are focusing on the first stanza this week. To help them, I make puzzles out of the verses by cutting up the lines and mixing them up. It has worked very well! When that becomes too easy, I just cut them further to include only a few words rather than a whole line.