PEARLS OF WISDOM

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Anyone got any of these to help children to learn?
For example: Never Eat Shredded Wheat (for the order of compass points)
Left and Fork have four letters so you hold a fork in your left hand. Similarly Right and Knife have the same amount of letters.

If you hold your left hand up, the thumb and first finger make a capital L.

On compass points,
Naughty Elephants Squirt Water (the nursery version)
Never Ever Smoke Weed (the junior school drug awareness version).

I take no credit for these - my children told them to me!

Hold both hands up using thumb and first finger to make "L" shapes, (facing each other) you then have a bed shape which you can use to remind children which way b's and d's go when writing.

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain - colours of the rainbow.

These are great keep them coming PLEASE

Never Eat Cakes Eat Salad Sandwiches And Remain Young - Necessary

Never Eat Sea Weed!

and bed making a bed shape to help remember which way round b and d go

Don't know if this is really a school one but spring forward, fall back for which way the clocks go.

9 times table.

each answer if you add the individual digits equals 9. E.g 18 = 1+8=9

Also, if you hold down the first finger on your hand to represent 1 the remaining fingers add up to 9. Hold down the second finger, the first finger becomes 10 and the remaining are 8 therefore 18. Third finger, the two before are 20 add the remaining 7. Etc... easy to show than type and explain.

Could/Would/Should Old Uncles Like Dancing - spells could etc

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

FACE in the space.

The notes on a musical stave

gdg - what is your cake/salad sandwich one about?

Silly Mr Venus Eats Me - by JaSUN Pluto

(Sun Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto)

I am really enjoying these. LOve the 9 times table one. Any more?
My son is just so impressed when I give him hints to help him learn.

I've always loved the one they use in Matilda:
Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY
There was a maths one about SohCahToa (sin=opposite/hypotenuse, cos=adjacent/hypotenuse, tan=opposite/adjacent), and another one about All Stations To Charing Cross, but I can't for the life of me remember what it stood for.
At school we had one for remembering the city gates of London, (doubt anyone anywhere has to learn that these days), and another one for the Country Code... definitely one for the Guide laws, and one about trout eating pizza that I can't remember what it's the key to...
I must have used hundreds of them.
sorry - not much help for your DS!

don't forget the ever simple

I before E except after C where the sound is ee

Many Vicious Elephants Munch Jelly Sandwiches Under Northern Pines (order of the planets)

Two Old Angels Sitting On High Chatting About Heave is the one I learnt about Tangent = Opp/Adj etc

the cake/salad one is how to spell necessary. I learnt it as Never Eat Cheese Eat Salmon Sandwiches And Remain Young though

MrsBadger: that reminds me

Mrs M
Mrs I
Mrs SSI
Mrs SSI
Mrs PPI

aha, the Country Code one has come to me!
Eat Greens For Kapital Kontrol Under Lenin To Help Protect Tara's Mother!
if only I could remember what they stood for...

Meanwhile, in the bass clef, All Cows Eat Grass in the spaces
and Good Boys Deserve Fat Apples on the lines.

Blimey, that one still works after 20 years! country code

Mrs Badger - I think I can explain All Stations To Charing Cross - it's about the quadrants in which the various trig functions are positive, All, Sine, Tangent, Cosine ("Cross" is superfluous).

hurrah!
thanks Hallgerda!

Also, necessary has one Collar and two Socks

Sir Oliver's Horse Came Ambling Home To Old Agatha = SohCahToa
Mr Vans Tramped - monter, retourner, venir, arriver, naitre, sortir, tomber, rester, aller, mourir, partir, entrer, descendre = the etre verbs in French perfect tense
soryy about lack of accents

Divorced Beheaded Died
Divorced Beheaded Survived

Henry Eighth's Wives!

I always remember my rainbow backwards for some reason - VIBGYOR