Rhymes for remembering

[Psychick]

My daughter, who is in year 2 at school and just turned 7, has been having a spelling test each Friday and each Friday, she comes home with a list of new words to learn for the following Friday. She often complains they are too easy and has knows them all already. Friday just gone I looked at the new words and said ha! there's a hard one to learn. The word was "because". She knew it! Then revealed they had been taught a rhyme to remember it which was Big Elephants Can Always Upset Small Elephants. Then I remembered being taught a way of knowing how many c's and s's in words like necessary. Never Eat Crest Eat Salad Sandwiches Always.

What other rhymes do you know to help you remember things?

[funnygirl]

I know there is one for remembering all the planets, but I've forgetten it.

Also I am sure there is one for remembering the colours of the rainbow.

[Gromit]

The musical notes one is very well known
Every Good Boy Deserves Favours.

For those who have trouble with the usage of there and their:

"If 'their' can be 'my', it's spelt with an i."

[Psychick]

The rainbow one I was taught was to remember the name Roy G Biv (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)

Gromit another musical one I learnt when learning to play the guitar but cant remember it! Argghhh!

[Psychick]

Oh! Its Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie.

[bigmamma]

Mrs m mrs i mrs ssi mrs ssi mrs ppi

[natalie_1982]

Never Eat Shredded Wheat or Naughty Elephants Squirt Water (North East South and West)

Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs F-F-I, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs L-T-Y (DIFFICULTY)

FRIday is the END of the week (FRIEND)

Do I get a smiley face?

[Lucy Thomas]

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Virgins Go Without.

This helps you remember the colour coding bands on electrical resistors. Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Grey, White.

[natalie_1982]

M, I , double S , I , double S , I , double P , I

MISSISSIPPI

[Psychick]

No natalie because I was about to post the diffculty one lol (I learnt that one from watching Matilda lol) You do get three stars though!

[Psychick]

lol ok Lucy, I may leave that one a while before I teach it to my daughter though (and yes, I know I didnt state I wanted more to teach my daughter these. I forgot to mention that bit, oops lol)

[creampie]

get a life

helps you remember the slang for girl, gal.

[creampie]

lucy who the hell would want to know that apart from an electronics geek?

[Lucy Thomas]

Probably the geeks who built any of the appliances in your house.

[creampie]

what? isnt that what I just said?!

[figure]

In music class for remembering the notes on the staff:

Lines - Eat Good Bread Dear Father

Spaces - F-A-C-E

[coco pops]

Colours of the rainbow: Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.

R ed , O range, Y ellow, G reen, B lue, I ndigo, V iolet

[4GS]

Tomorrow You Eat Sweets day

Tuesday!!

[jackthehat]

Mother
Very
Easily
Makes
Jam
Simply
Using
No
Plums
...................the order of the planets moving away from the sun. Although, this presupposes that you can remember the names of the planets themselves..............and ignore the fact that Pluto has been removed from the list as they have downgraded its classification as a planet.

[creampie]

4GS thatr doesnt make sense its stupid. Im not having a personal dig at you it just is really stupid

[mccfluff]

god bless you

for remembering the order the green brown and yellow balls go in the D in snooker

( just what kind of education did i get apart from 'never eat shredded wheat' i've never heard of any of the others)

oh and poets day - p!ss of early tomorrows saturday