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.

Tropic of Cancer is over the
Tropic of Capricorn

and

Arctic is over the
Antarctic

because you can't have a top heavy equation. Does that make sense to anybody else?!?

Also you spell desperate that way because pa doesn't pay the rates

Stalagmites & Stalactites - mites go up and tights go down!

Big Elephants Can't Always Understand Small Elephants (because)

Easter Bunnies Get Drunk At Easter. The strings on a guitar

ON -OM-ATO-POEIA to the tune of old macdonald

I've just remembered our mnemonic (c.1979) for the quadrants in which the trig functions are positive:

All Students Take Care (official version)
All Students Take Cannabis (when the teacher wasn't listening)

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
(red, orange, yellow, green blue, indigo, violet - the order of the colours in a rainbow)

we learnt the french verbs that take être in the past tense as:
Draper's Van MMT

and stalagtites hold on tight.....

and Never Eat Shredded Wheat

father charles goes down and ends battle

• The order in which sharps are added as you go through different musical key signatures

battle ends and down goes charles' father

• The order in which flats are added.

And...

Said Y, eggs double you V
Your tea is our QP
Oh, NML, KJ
I hate G if he deceives BA

(Helps you learn the alphabet backwards! Mad but it works. Though somehow I suspect that's not on the National Curriculum.)

My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets

StalaGmites are on the Ground, StalaCtites are on the Ceiling

e for envelope...helps you remember how th spell stationery.

All Silly Tom Cats (quadrants in which all, sine, tan and cosine are positive)

Fancy Catching Green Ducks After Eating Breakfast
(order of the sharps in music)

There is A RAT in sepARATe

cheers Alexsmum - that one still gets me

I ate and I ate and I slipped on the floor

8 X 8 = 64

9X one is great. ds use it

Our geography teacher taught us that stalactites are women and stalacmites are men... therefore

The tights come down the mights go up!

Or stalagmites MIGHT reach the roof one day and Stalactites have to hold on TIGHT so they don't fall off

To tell the difference between a weasel and a stoat
Weasels are weaselly recognised but stoats are stoatally different!

A more useful one: existence is full of ease (eee's)

Ooh, I had two for the first two lines of the periodic table (after the first short one with only Hydrogen and Helium in).

Living Before B.C. Nero Often Fiddled. Never!

and

Narcotics Magnify All Simple Pleasures So Clearly, Actually.

Not sure the school would have approved of the sentiments contained in the second one, come to think of it!

I also remember from German lessons:

Aus, bei, mit, seit, nach, von, zu
mit dem dativ schreibest du

... to remember which prepositions take the dative.

And following on from 'e' for envelope to remember how to spell 'stationery' (someone should tell my dd's school that one, as they have a 'stationary cupboard' ... which admittedly doesn't move much, but I don't think that's what they mean), there is also 'e' for electricity to remember the spelling of 'current' (as opposed to the currant which you eat).

For the order of the planets in the Solar System - My Vicar Eats Marvellous Jam Sandwiches Using Nelly's Peanuts OR Mallory Valerie Emily Meezters Just Served Us Nine (hundred and ninety-nine) Pizzas.

And there used to be a huge long rhyme to remember the kings and queens of england from William the Conqueror which my dad knew, but I can only remember the first few:

Willie, Willie, Harry, Ste,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry 3.

Er, might have Dick and John the wrong way round.

God bless the internet - here it is in full. I wonder if anyone memorises this stuff anymore?

Willie, Willie, Harry, Steve,

Harry, Dick, John, Harry Three,

Edward One, Two, Three, Dick Two,

Henry Four, Five, Six, then who?

Edward Four, Five, Dick the Bad,

Harrys twain and Ned, the lad.

Mary, Lizzie, James the Vain,

Charlie, Charlie, James again.

William and Mary, Anne o'Gloria,

Four Georges, William and Victoria.

Edward Seven, Georgie Five,

Edward, George and Liz (alive)