When my kids and their cousins were babies, my father-n-law used to sit all the babies in a circle (aged newborn to about 10) and say the following.
"My Grandpa is the best Grandpa in the Whole Wide World". He would say this over and over for about 10 minutes. The older kids, the ones who could talk, would begin to repeat with him. "My Grandpa is the best Grandpa in the Whole Wide World". When he was happy with the chant (which is what it became), he would bow out of the room leaving the instructions: "Say it till you know it."
The kids are all teenagers and young adults today. If someone where to stand near them and say, "My Grandpa..." They would continue by saying "is the best Grandpa in the Whole Wide World". The programming is complete.
This week is the third attempt at testing my kids on The Cell, a biology unit. They have been completely frustrated from trying to learn all of the little parts and what they do. We did the curriculum unit week 1... they had learned 30% of it. Week 2, we reviewed the units using sparknotes.com, they had learned 60% of it. After another after a week of doing internet research and videos on the cell, are much closer to full understanding, but not quite there. They will do a 3D project next before moving on to the next unit.
This would never work in a classroom. They would have had to take a failure for the unit and move on.
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