{"id":11823,"date":"2017-06-13T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=11823"},"modified":"2017-06-12T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T22:22:31","slug":"memorization-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=11823","title":{"rendered":"Memorization Stars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/memorization-star-R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11804\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/memorization-star-R.jpg\" alt=\"memorization star R\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/memorization-star-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/memorization-star-R-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every recital I wish I had more students pushing to memorize their songs. \u00a0I don&#8217;t require the students to memorize the song, but I do think it&#8217;s a useful thing to have a song at your fingertips. \u00a0It&#8217;s also good to really work your brain &#8220;muscles&#8221; as well. \u00a0So, even though I don&#8217;t require it, I do encourage it. \u00a0This year I decided to try out a little incentive to those who wanted an extra push.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the Memorization Star wall!<\/p>\n<p>If the song was memorized they got to fill out their name on a star and put it wherever they wanted on the wall. \u00a0It actually worked surprisingly well for the first attempt. \u00a0I definitely had a few students eyeing the wall to figure out who had made it and came the next week eager to show me their song. \u00a0I think it will be a fun to bring back the Memorization star every recital!<\/p>\n<p>(As a side note, Josiah didn&#8217;t quite have his memorized by the recital, but he worked on it really hard the next day until he had it memorized&#8211;and came running to tell me he was ready to add his star. \u00a0If you look really closely at the picture, you&#8217;ll notice he has been able to add his star on the bottom right side. \u00a0I just didn&#8217;t have the heart to tell him no. \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every recital I wish I had more students pushing to memorize their songs. \u00a0I don&#8217;t require the students to memorize the song, but I do think it&#8217;s a useful thing to have a song at your fingertips. \u00a0It&#8217;s also good to really work your brain &#8220;muscles&#8221; as well. \u00a0So, even though I don&#8217;t require it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11834,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions\/11834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}