Can You Name Them All?

Kids love to memorize facts (at least, they used to love memorizing facts), so early elementary age was a great time for memorizing simple poems, history dates, basic science facts, the eight parts of speech, and so forth.

At least, that's how we did things during our home-schooling years.

One list of facts we memorized was all the U.S. presidents (in order), along with remembering three "facts" about them.

My rationale was this: if you're a U.S. citizen, you should know something about the history of the country in which you live, including the names of the leaders that helped shaped the nation.

Perhaps you'd like to challenge yourself on this President's Day.

Now maybe memorizing a list of each U.S. president (in order) is a tough job for today.

But how about looking up three U.S. presidents that are less familiar to you and learning three facts about each?

Here's a book we used (and it's still available) to help get you started!

Happy President's Day!