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.

WE had Mrs Vandertramp for the french verbs which take etre not avoir in the past tense.

Polly Makes Awful Trifles
Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase - something to do with cell division, I think!

golly, these are compelling.
Enzymes of the digestive system working down from the mouth:
Any Peculiar Trout All Like Mrs Smith's Pizza
Amylase, pepsin, trypsin, amylase, lipase, maltase, sucrase(?), protease

1 coat, 2 shoes - necessary.

Big Elephants Can't Always Use Small Exits

Bugger! That didn't work, did it?

It was meant to highlight all the first letters.

I was taught this by my head master when i ws 5 and i still catch myself saying it sometimes

B-betty
E-eats
C-cheese
A-and
U-uses
S-some
E-eggs.

My ds1 has been taught the Big Elephants version

Another one dredged up from my misspent youth:

How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics...

necassary- double s or your an ass

oops wrong word now i am the ass as i cant remember which word this is for !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big Elephants Cant Always Use Small Exits

See Aunty Mandy - doesn't work, does it??

Very annoying!!

amyd2 - necessary is with an 'e' as well .

yeah i realised that as soon as i had posted it. oops. by the way i have changed my name was amyd2

BECAUSE

Big
Elephants
Can
Add
Up
Sums
Easily

Someone told me this and I still say it all the time (thus irritating everyone I know)

• you know what they say about "assume"? It makes an ass out of u and me

I told dd1 about the necessary "one coat, two shoes" thing today - she was most impressed!

OOOOOhooooh I've just made one up (same principle)

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One coat
Two mittens

SAID
Sally Ann is dancing
Once
one nasty cold evening