Is there an easy way to learn the kings and queens of England and dates?

[ThatBeetroot]

DS prep!!

[NoodleStroodle]

Buy a Ruler ruler

[ThatBeetroot]

need to learn them for a test

[NoodleStroodle]

Ah...there is a neumonic (sp) for it

Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry Three,
One-To-Three Neds, Richard Two,
Harrys Four-Five-Six... then who?

Edwards Four-Five, Dick the Bad,
Harrys (twain), Ned Six (the lad),
Mary, Bessie, James you ken,
Then Charlie, Charlie, James again...

Will & Mary, Anne of gloria,
Georges ( 4! ), Will Four, Victoria,
Edward Seven next, and then
Came George the Fifth in 1910...

Ned the Eighth soon abdicated,
So George Six was coronated,
Then Number Two Elizabeth...
And that's all, folks (until her death...)!!

[dyzzidi]

BBC website does do a timeline with bits of info for each ruler.d

[rabbleraiser]

All of them, Beetroot? Or just within a specified time period?

[ThomCat]

Hah, you beat me to it Noodle!

[rabbleraiser]

Bloody hell, Stroodle. That's amazing

[NoodleStroodle]

Yeah but it does have dates which is a bit made really...but at least it includes William IV who usually gets forgotten

[NoodleStroodle]

I didn't make it up Rabble - it's ancient

[ThatBeetroot]

ds thinks that is really difficult noodle -

yes all of them in order.

[NoodleStroodle]

Tough - that's all I've got!

[ThatBeetroot]

what has dates noodle?

can't use ruler, it is for a test

[ThatBeetroot]

I otld him to try learing his way then come back to me when he couldn't

[NoodleStroodle]

My brain has some dates but I am not sure how easy it is to lend for test.

I am afraid that his is one that you have to knuckle down and learn

[ThatBeetroot]

3 per night wil do it

[NoodleStroodle]

As the risk of ranting it's a bit mad just to learn them unless you know why one led to another. We have a funny old fashioned book about this which is quite good. If you know about H IV wives and George III being a nutter and Bessie Virgin Queen then it is all alot easier - give them personalities

[wychbold]

To show how old I am:

George the Third said with a smile,
Seventeen-Sixty yards in a mile.

< Mum ... what's a 'yard'? >

[wheresthehamster]

Make a list of all the royal houses and their start and end dates.

Learn the Normans first and fill in the kings and their dates.

Then the Plantagenets, then the Lancasters ,Yorks etc.

By doing it in stages it should be easier.

[ThatBeetroot]

He has a time line that he has been doing at school and now needs to learn them.

[roisin]

Crikey that's a tall order.

Good luck!

[ThatBeetroot]

he has 3 weeks so have said 3 per night.

[katelyle]

Have you thought about telling the teacher that it's a bonkers thing to do, and you're not doing it? Or at least asking him/her what the educational benefits of doing it are? If they want them to learn something by heart then how about some poetry or their times tables.

[Fauve]

Noodle, what's the name of the funny old fashioned book?

Beetroot, if it were me, I'd make simple posters of each day's three monarchs, with pictures if possible, and stick them up on the wall to make a visual prompt. I just mean their names in big writing, so Willy, Willy, Harry, then dates, then some kind of illustration if you can.

It does sound exceptionally challenging. Bet none of us can recite them (or not many of us), esp not with dates. How many grown-ups could? Can the teacher?

[PedroPony]

thast is a VERY odd way of doin history?
how odl is his history teacher?
94?

[wychbold]

"Have you thought about telling the teacher that it's a bonkers thing to do, and you're not doing it?"

What's bonkers about it? [genuinely puzzled emoticon] Are you one of the people that they trot out in surveys about History that thinks that Queen Victoria was a Roman or the Battle of Waterloo happened in 1066?