Memory Verse Program
Prime Time Memory Bank Rules

Set Up:

A table will be set up in the hallway just outside the Geneva Room every Sunday morning from 8:50 to 9:00 am and 10:00 to 10:30 am. There will be Memory Verse Listeners there to listen, record and reward the child.

General Rules:

• A child may begin saying verses at any age. If the verse is not from our memory bank, please have a copy of the verse in the version that the child has memorized.
• The child must say each verse from memory with no more than two “helps” from the Memory Verse Listener.
• A child may quote a maximum of 5 verses (or entries) each week. He/she may repeat that verse again the next month.

Procedure:

• The child goes to the Memory Verse Table to recite. If someone else is reciting, wait in line quietly until they are finished. It is harder for some people to recite (and hear!) when it is noisy. If you are loud while waiting in line, you will not be allowed to recite that week.
  
• The child says each verse (up to 5 entries) with no more than 2 helps. No learning verses in line.
  

  The Memory Verse Listener records the verse successfully completed and pays the child according to the length of the entry and the age of the child.

Payment:

• The general rule is “One verse, one buck,” however, if a verse is in the learning period and the child also learns the hand motions, the child is paid 5 bucks per verse, when recited perfectly.
• If a child cannot read (usually Kindergarten and younger), a parent usually has to take extra time to work with the child so that really both of them are learning the verse, so double bucks are paid.

Prime Time General Store (and Bank):

• For 2, 3 and 4 year olds brought by their parents, the Prime Time Store is open before Sunday School, after they have recited. For all others, the store is open only after Sunday School. Prime Time Bucks may be banked before Sunday School.
• Prices are subject to change due to supply and demand.
• If you would like your child not to be allowed to buy specific items of any kind such as candy or stuffed animals, just let Mr. Henry know!
• Most of the items in the Prime Time Store, both new and used, are donated. All donations are happily accepted, but it is most helpful if your donation is something in particular that motivates your child, but not normally available in the store.

Awards: “Who’s Got the Bucks?”:

Our annual award ceremony in June entitled “Who’s Got the Bucks?” is the program’s way of awarding both effort and excellence. Each child that has recited at all during that school year is reviewed. The records are checked for how many different Bible verses each child
recited and recorded on a worksheet. Then, certificates are given out to every child who has participated in the program, with special award ribbons for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place at each grade level.

There is also an Honor Roll for each student who has 20 or more points in the program, and they receive a special award as well for attaining that notable level of excellence.