Do you know what our opening is? It's where we all sit together and memorize things. We have a song, a poem, and a scripture to memorize. We've memorized two poems already, and we need to find another one to memorize. The second one was pretty easy. But we haven't memorized any of the whole song or scripture. We just do little parts at a time. But before we do the song, we do the Pledge of Elegence. We take turns from oldest to youngest to hold the flag, and whoever holds the flag, after they have a turn to say the prayer. Then we do the memorizing stuff.
The first thing that we practice is and memorize is the song. It's called America the Beautiful, on page 338 in the Hymns book. We've learned the whole first verse, and I think there's four verses. This is how the first verse goes: Oh, beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!
After our song, we do the scripture. It's Helamen 5:12 in the Book of Mormon. (We haven't gotten the whole thing memorized, though.) Here goes: And now my sons, remember, remember, that it is upon the rock of our redeemer, who is Christ, the son of God; that ye must build your foundation, that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds; yay, his shafts in the whirlwind. And that's all I've fully memorized.
Next, after our scripture, we do our poem. We've memorized two poems, and so now we need to find another poem to memorize. This is how the first poem goes: Keep a poem in your pocket and a picture in your head, and you'll never feel lonely at night when you're in bed.
The little poem will sing to you, the little picture sing to you, a dozen dreams to dance to you, at night when you're in bed.
So... Keep a picture in your pocket and a poem in your head, and you'll never feel lonely at night when you're in bed.
The second poem goes like this: I never saw a purple cow, I never hope to see one. But I can tell you anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.
After we do our memorizing, we do flashcards. Sometimes we do science, and there's vocabulary words, and there's also math flashcards. They're all on my mom's tablet. We use it for school. And soemtimes I use it for e-mailing people. So, that's all that we do with our opening!
