Do school children not have to learn state capitals anymore?

[ElizK]

I was discussing this with a co-worker the other day. I know I had to learn them 2 or 3 different years (but I moved a LOT when I was a kid). I have a DD12 in 7th grade that has never had to learn them, nor my DD9 in 4th grade.

Is this just a North Texas thing, or are kids in other parts of the country not being required to learn them, either?

 

[monarchsfan16]

I learned them my freshman year in Civics class.
We were also supposed to learn them in 5th grade but we uhhh were wonderful distracting little children who somehow made the teacher run out of time to teach them to us. All the other classes had to learn them though

 

[ElizK]

Ya'll were terrible! LOL! and soooo smart, too!

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

<font color=navy>My kids had to learn them in 5th grade, and then they had to pick a state out of a hat (not California where we live), and had to do a report on the state, plus do a 3-d relief map. I thought it was a good project.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

My neice is 12 and she had to learn them last year. For several days, that was all she talked about because she was practicing them for her test.

 

[monarchsfan16]

Originally posted by Mary Jo
<font color=navy>My kids had to learn them in 5th grade, and then they had to pick a state out of a hat (not California where we live), and had to do a report on the state, plus do a 3-d relief map. I thought it was a good project.

We had to put together a state box in 5th grade. Lots of different things that made that state unique. That's one we weren't able to get out of, and ours couldn't be our home state either.

 

[tinatark]

My son had to learn them last year, in 4th grade. He had to learn the states in the order they were admitted to the Union, along with the capitols of each. A LOT of work for all of us!

 

[lisajl]

My 10 year old son is learning them now for fifth grade.

 

[100%Disney]

We learned them in 8th grade. My DS should have fun learning them, he has a memory deficit problem, I dread quizzing him on them.

 

[janette]

We're in North Texas and my DD learned them in 5th grade. My youngest is just in 4th now but I expect she'll learn them also since it's the same school.

Your school district might have the curriculum on line you could check it to see if it was not there or if the school just didn't do it.

 

[tinatark]

we used this web site... it's great!

http://www.50states.com/tools/

 

[piratesmate]

I don't think I ever had to learn them back in the "Dark Ages". (late 50s, early 60s) Each teacher taught what they wanted as there was no school district.

Both of my children learned them in 4th grade. My nieces & nephews have also had to learn them in 4th - and they are in different districts around the state. (PA)

100%Disney - Does the school know about the memory deficit? Perhaps they can give you some suggestions for alternate ways to learn them.

 

[aprilgail2]

I don't know what grade they learn them in here but my daughter is going in kindergarten and knows most of them already....she has puzzles with the shapes of the states and their capitols on them and an interactive state and scapitol thing so she is pretty good with them. We are also up to about the 15th president she can recite in order who they were...we try to add a new one every week or so once she has the previous onces down pat.

 

[ElizK]

Originally posted by tinatark
we used this web site... it's great!

http://www.50states.com/tools/

Thanks for the link. That's a great site!

 

[LScot]

DD (5th) has been go over states and capitals every year since 2nd grade.

 

[candykisses]

My boys studied states and capitols in 3rd and 4th grades.

 

[Jeanny]

I had to learn them in my dark ages of 4th grade and I also remember using a phone--yes a landline phone--not a portable or a cell phone to call my friends to test each other on all the states & capitals. I also remember them laughing at my pronunciation of Arkansas... I thought it was a R with Kansas after it...

We never really had to learn the President's names though, and to this day, I only know probably half, but I do know my states & captials.

 

[chager]

My son had to learn them in 2nd. They were given a map had had to match the state and capital to the correct spots. In 3rd they were given a map and had to write them out on their own. Spelling counted too!!

 

[mom2alix]

We had to learn them in 4th grade and had to do countries and capitals in 5th.

Of course that was back in the dark ages and Eastern Europe and Africa in particular no longer resemble the maps I had to learn. It seems like I have to relearn where some countries are when they come up in the news.

At lease those good old states and capitals never change!

 

[Kitty 34]

At our school they learn them in 4th grade and review them in 8th.