memorize a poem

Memorizing a poem is a good activity for children (and adults) to do over the summer.  Learning something from memory is good brain exercise (see here for an article that extols the virtues of memorization).  For younger children, I would start with something short, but my hunch is that younger children will memorize things just as easily as older ones or adults.  The Poetry Foundation has a part of their website dedicated to poems for children.  Some poetry books for children that I like are written about here.  I also like this book, Falling Down the Pages.

This is my last post for summer learning.  I start back to work next Monday, most students I know will be back to school soon, too.