And really good teachers are geniuses. You are brain surgeons of the subtlest type. I want you to know that I have quite a few of them at home in special keepsake boxes, in case you ever need one. You might think there would be more than 685 Words over that many years, but I felt I should count such perennial favorites as Pilgrim, Menorah, Snowman and Martin Luther King, Jr. only once each, and that cut the total down. And magic happens in between.
G is the hardest Cursive letter to learn.
In addition, my experience with approximately three bagzillion Book Sharing Projects leads me to the sad conclusion that you 4th grade teachers are part of an elite ring of petty criminals getting rich slowly on kickbacks from the companies that produce poster board, glue sticks, indelible markers and bottles of white-out. But I won't mention that here. The countries were considerably more difficult than the presidents, since the world kept fracturing and re-naming itself, while the presidents were very considerately always men, always the same men, and sometimes even men with the same last name. Eventually, I realized it didn't matter whether I memorized or forgot, because I knew a lot of people, right in my own house, who I could ask if I ever really needed to know the name of, say, the 14th President. So far, I never have.