to be annoyed with Cbeebies for getting the rainbow wrong?

[ZingOfSeven]

Katie and another girl just arranged coloured pencils on this order

red
yellow
orange
green
blue
indigo
violet



either teach something properly or don't bovver innit?

[ILoveCwtches]

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us New Potatoes (obviously including poor Pluto before it was demoted)!

[ithoughtofitfirst]

I need to go back to school.

[WillWorkForMoney]

My Very Empty Milk Jug Steams Under No Pressure

[MrsKranky]

Richard of York gave battle in vain.

And My Very Early Morning Jog Surprises Ugly Nosey People for planets, including Pluto, obviously.

[TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge]

*that's what

[TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge]

It's gained battle in vain.That's what I was taught anyway

As for planets,we were taught My Very Easy Method Just Set Up Nine Planets

[Pipbin]

As for the planets. Don't try to remember a nemonic. Watch this for a few times and you'll know them all straight off:

[MrsNBM]

I remember being in primary school and being taught
Red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and blue for the rainbow then Richard of York instead in high school
As for planets it was
My Very English Mother Jumped Straight Under Nellys Pussy..... Cat
I still laugh childishly at that one!

[Delarosa]

Who cares ffs

[hazeyjane]

Rinse Out Your Greasy Boots Vigorously

Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet

no indigo, because it doesn't make sense, you might as well have light green or orangey red as a separate colour

Each alternate colour should be able to make up the colour in between continuously like this....

red orange yellow green blue violet red orange yellow green blue violet red orange etc (red + yellow = orange, yellow + blue = green, blue + red = violet, red+ yellow = orange etc etc)

I can't quite believe I typed all that out!

[Pico2]

A rainbow is a full spectrum, so it is fairly arbitrary as to how you divide it into colours. The thing that puzzles me about colours is why pink isn't just referred to as light red.

[OneMillionScovilles]

Planets: Make Very Easy Mash, Just Squash Up New Potatoes

[Tanith]

I looked it up for DS. They reckon that Newton would have known the colours differently. His blue would have been more of a greeny blue or turquoise colour, while the indigo would have been the true mid blue.

So, according to that, it should be red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise or cyan, blue and violet or purple.

Makes more sense to me that way.

Mnemonic anyone?

[ZingOfSeven]

goodboy

My Very Elegant Mother Just Scrubs Up Nicely

that is sooo MN!

[ZingOfSeven]

mawbroon

[mawbroon]

Doh, no it was Listen with your EYES!

[mawbroon]

Listen with your ears was another gem from that song that I remember

[NewEraNewMindset]

Where did this indigo and violet shit appear in British education? I am nearly 40 and have never heard of the Richard of York thang.

I learnt: red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and bluuuue. I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too.

Not once to I recall violet or indigo being mentioned. Izzit coz I'm a Gimmer.

[CatIshoo]

Pluto is a dwarf planet. My son gets very twitchy when someone calls it a planet (he was very indignant when his teacher told the class it was a planet, not that he said anything, he was 6)

He know the most random things about the solar system.

[HollyAndIvyTime]

No, no, no, no, no. It's:

My Very Earnest Man, Just Show Us Nine (Planets).

Obviously learnt some time ago! :)

Yy to 'Richard of York gave battle in vain'.

[PurpleSwift]

Yanbu.

But pluto is a planet.

[Hatespiders]

We were always taught 'Richard Of York Gained Battles In Vain'.
I don't think one 'gives' battle?

[Discopanda]

Katie is responsible for both the savoury muffin recipe (she also presents I can Cook) and this new rainbow travesty, we should start a petition to get her removed.