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kids
school help
For mom's and dad's who want to make a difference!
"Mnemonic"
comes from the Greek word mnemonic which means
mindful.
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| Bible | Biology | Chemistry
| Geography | Government
| Grammar | Math | Miscellany
| Music | Periodic Tables
| Physics | Spelling | Weather
We hope these principles
and formulas assist or improve the memory of each of your students and maybe
even yourself. Karl and Jodee Kulp. Please share any CLEAN AND
HEALTHY new mnemonics your family creates with us at jodee@connetworks.com
About Mnemonics
You have heard "thirty days hath September,
April, June and November", to remember the number of days in the
months. If you've taken music you will have heard "every good boy does
fine" to remember the notes which appear on the lines of the treble
clef. Your English teachers may have taught the rhyme "I before E
except after C". These aid memory.
When you say "Oh, that reminds me...." you
can be assured that a memory was cued. Something has caused you to remember
something. When you originally remembered the thought, it was somehow
connected to the cue. When the cue appears again the memory returns. There
is an association between the cue and the memory which was made during the
original experience. Mnemonics also uses this principle.
The first step in learning mnemonics is developing the
minds eye. Simply using it improves its ability and increases the vividness
of mental imagery. The next step is to connect these mental images.
Connecting images is the basis for the "link method" of mnemonics.
When you or your student are faced with a memory
problem…Jump out of the box and create your own mnemonic!
My Nasty
Editor Might Occasionally
Not Interpret Commas
BIBLE
| Names of the the 12 disciples
This is the way the disciples run.
Peter, Andrew, James and John
Philip and Bartholomew
Thomas next and Mathew too
James the less and Judas the greater
Simon the zealot and Judas the traitor
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New Testament Order Helps
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians,
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Act 2 Corny (at the)
Galations, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians in the Bible.
General Electric Power Company
Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews
Then Timothy Titused Phi lemons Hebrew (and finally)
James, 1st Peter, 2nd Peter, 1st
John, 2nd John 3rd John, Jude, Revelations.
James, 2 Peters, 3 Johns and 1 Jude found Revelation.
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People
Learning
Awesome
Information
Divinely
Displayed
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LIGHT
Listen to God's
Word
I have a
sinful nature
God has a
plan for me
Have I
received God's gift of salvation
Take the
next step
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MATH
| The Roman numerals in order for I, V, X (1, 5, 10)
I Vant XRays
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The Roman numerals in order for 50, 100, 500 and 1000. (LCDM)
Lucy Can't Drink Milk
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Celsius for those who grew up with the Fahrenheit scale.
30 is hot
20 is nice
10 is cold
0 is ice.
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Metric system:
King Hector Doesn't Usually
Drink Cold Milk
Kilo
Hecto
Deca
Units
Deci
Centi
Milli |
1000
100
10
0
.01
.001
.0001
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King Hector Died Miserable Death Caught Measles
Kilometer Hectometer Decameter Meter
Decimeter Centimeter Millimeter
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Arithmetic functions:
Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally
Please excuse my dog and sister
Parentheses, exponents, multiply, divide, addition, subtract
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Long Division
Does McDonald's sell cheeseburgers raw?
Divide, multiple, subtract, compare, remainder
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Division:
Smaller unit to Larger unit they will Divide
Snails Love Dessert
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Numerator over the Denominator
Nice Dog
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Division:
Larger unit
to Smaller unit they will Multiply
Llamas Love Milk
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Subtraction Borrowing
Bigger Bottom Better Borrow
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I can find the RIM in PeRIMeter
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I need the whole AREA
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| Trigonometric equations:
Some old hen caught another hen taking one away
S(in) = O(pposite)/H(ypotenuse)
C(os) = A(djacent)/H(ypotenuse)
T(an) = O(pposite)/A(djacent)
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Adding and subtracting with 9's and 8's
9 and 8 want to be ten like any normal 8 or 9 year old child…
But luckily they both come with a great secret clue! The 9 has one
vacumn cleaner nozzle to suck up one unit and the 8 has two nozzles to
suck up 2 units. Making the sucking noises help a lot.
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| Multiplication Tricks:
Minus times minus is plus,
The reason for this we need not discuss.
Easy checkout:
Even times even is even
Even times odd is even
But odd times odd is always odd.
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Imagine you're in a town in the Wild West.
You've got good guys (+) and bad guys (-),
and they can either come to town (+) or leave town (-).
If the good guys (+) come to town (+), that's good (+).
If the bad guys (-) come to town (+), that's bad (-).
If the good guys (+) leave town (-), that's bad (-).
But if the bad guys (-) leave town (-), that's good (+)!
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Liquid measures
Two CUPS Make a PINT
And Two PINTS make a QUART
But you'll never get a GALLON
Unless you add FOUR QUARTS
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The direction of increasing position angle – it is
measured from North, sweeps through the East cardinal point, then
South, then West
Never Eat Shredded Wheat
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| Days in each month
Hold up two fists together. Starting with January the knuckles
(mountains) are 31 and the valleys between the knuckles are 30 day
except February which has 28 or 29.
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pi =
3.1415926535897932384626433832795...
(Word lengths are digits)
Now I, even I, would celebrate
In rhymes unapt, the great
Immortal Syacusan, rivaled nevermore,
Who in his wonderous lore,
Passed on before,
Left men his guidance
How to circles mensurate. (31 places)
See, I have a rhyme assisting my feeble brain, its tasks
oft-times resisting. (13 places)
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Division Tricks:
1 over 7
is .14 28 57
Just learn that one
the others are given
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Skip counting rhymes
make multiplication fun but does not always get the results you
need...why?
Use caution when using skip
counting to song as the information goes into the sub-dominant part of
the brain and may be difficult to find without singing.
- We make up rap and poetry for the interest of different students,
these have worked well when we are introducing the concept. The
reteach all songs with mono-tone voice even rythym and also flash
cards.
- Think of other math shapes that have 3 (triangles, yards), 4
(squares, wheels), 5 (pentagons, nickles, minutes on clock), 6, 7
(days of week), 8 (octagons, stop signs) sides.
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Fours…
(tune of Rollin' Rollin' Rollin')
Rollin, Rollin, Rollin, Keep those tires rollin.
4, 8, 12, 16 wheelers rollin
20, 24, 28, 32 rollin right along
36, 40, 44, 48 cruisin right along
Put 'em up, shout 'em down
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Threes…
(tune of This Old Man)
3, 6, 9…12, 15…18, 21
24 and 27…30 and your done.
33, 36, 39 and more
42 and 45 help me off the floor
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Sixes…
(Shortnin Bread)
6, 12, 18….24 and 30
Mama's little babies love shortnin bread
36 and 42….48 and 54
Eggs by the half dozen mama said
Give me a 60….Give me 66
Bring home the eggs for my shortnin bread
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Twleves…
(Rapped or said with a beat)
12…24…36….yard
48…60…72…not hard
84…96…how bout 108
120…132…144 that's gross
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Sixteens….
(rapped or said with beat)
16 oz. = 1 pound
2 pounds is 32.
48 ozs. makes it 3
60 might be absurd….ok its 4.
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Nines….
Multiply Nine Every Time Adds to Nine
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| Fives…
Five times Odd Ends in Five
Five times Even Ends in "O" it's Even Steven
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MUSIC
| The notes represented by the lines on
the treble cleff bottom to top |
Every Good Boy Does Fine |
| The notes represented by the spaces on
the treble clef, bottom to top |
FACE |
| Order of sharps: |
Father Charles Goes Down And Ends
Battle |
| Order of flats: |
Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles'
Father |
E B G D A E
(Standard guitar tuning) |
Earl's Bible Gets Dusty After
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WEATHER
Red sky at night, sailors delight!
Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning! |
Rain before seven, fine before eleven. |
| No weather is ill, if the wind be still. |
Crickets chirp faster as the temperature rises. |
| Low pressure forces smoke down
When smoke descends, good weather ends.
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Cold is the night, when stars shine bright. |
In fair weather, sound waves travel upward and outward
in the atmosphere and dissipate there; on humid, cloudy days, they are
sent back to earth.
Sound traveling far and wide
A stormy day this doth betide
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Finding the center of a weather system.Northern
Hemisphere only. Reverse for Southern Hemisphere
When the wind is at your back,
the low is on your left.
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| The louder the frog, the more the rain. |
When grass is dry in morning light,
look for rain before the night. |
GRAMMAR
| Conjunctions: (with a
scandinavian accent) |
Have you met the OR,
NOR, FOR sisters and their brothers AND and BUT of the conjunction
family? |
| Quotation Mark |
If it's important
enough to "hang it on the line" it gets quotes. |
| Periods and Commas |
Periods are like stop
signs, they stop the sentence
Commas are like yield signs, They make you slow down. |
BIOLOGY
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Kind pigs care only for good slop.
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The amino acids:
Hydrophilic Neutral: (Glycine, Alanine, Valine,
Leucine, Isoleucine, Methionine, Cysteine, Proline, Phenylalanine,
Tryptophan)
Girls Are Very Loving If Men Can Prepare Perfect Tea
Positive: (Asparagine, Glutamine, Serine, Threonine,
Tyrosine)
Alexander Graham Spoke Through (the) Telephone
Neutral: (Lysine, Arginine, Histidine)
Laurel And Hardy
Negative:
Aspartate and Glutamate (all that's left..
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Stages of Cell Division:
Prophase Metaphase Anaphase Telophase
ProMote Another Tadpole
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Taxonomic classification for humans:
Anamalia Chordata Mammalis Primate Hominidae Homo Sapien
Anthroplogy Can Make People Hate Helping The Sick
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| Bones of the skull: (The medical
profession is famous for mnemonics) Occipital parietal frontal
temporal ephnoid sphenoid
Old people from Texas eat spiders
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LICHEN are made up of ALGAE and FUNGI
She was all gal (ALGAL) and he was a fun guy (FUNGI). They took a
likin' (LICHEN) to each other.
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CHEMISTRY
lose electrons (=) oxidation
gain electrons (=) reduction
LEO the lion goes GER
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mix acid and water ...
Add acid to watuh
Just as you oughta.
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If a soluble salt you wish to provide
You first on the acid settle;
Then neutralize with the proper oxide,
hydroxide, carbonate or metal.
But if the salt will not dissolve,
A simpler means you'll try:
Precipitate it, you resolve,
Then filter, wash and dry.
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PERIODIC TABLES
The entire PERIODIC table can be PRONOUNCED Essentially every
consonant is sounded with "c" replaced by "k" and
the two initial "h" sounded as "huh"
"huh".
HHeLiBeBCNOFNeNaMgAlSiPSClArKCaSc
TiVCrMnFeCoNiCuZnGaGeAsSeBr
OR AS two separate words that went (more or less phonetically)
"H!" (Just make a loud H, then pause, looking as if you're
about to pounce. Nice dramatic effect that gets the listener's
attention.)
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H HE LI BE BO CA NE OR FI
Ha. HEalthy LIttle BEggar BOys CAtching NEwts OR FIsh
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H HE LI BE BO CA N OR FI
Harry HElped LIttle BEnny Balmer CArry NEat ORanges From Neptune's
NAtural MenaGerie ALways SInging Polite Sonnets CLearly ARf Key
CAsually.
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"Heh-Lee-Beb-K'Noff-" (Easy so far)
"N'Nahm" (That's N(schwa) - Nahm[rhymes with bomb])
"Gall-Sip-Sickle":
Helibebcanofnee and Namgalsipsclar
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This one is probably best sung with scandinavian accent.
Hy! He!
LiBe BoCNOF Ne!
NaMgAl SiPSClAr
KaCaScaTi VaCroMan
FeCoNiCu "Zed Enn"
GaGe AsSe BroKr
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PHYSICS
| Waves: Cosmic Gamma X-rays Ultraviolet
Visible Infrared Microwave Radio Television
Cary Grant eXpects Unanimous Votes In
Movie Reviews Tonight
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Newton's Laws of Motion:
The first law - Inertia = "One - ertia"
The Third Law - equal and opposite = a sideways 3 - turn the three so
the openings of the three are upward - each side of the sideways three
is "equal and opposite"
Once you know which the 1st and third are - the second is the only
one left.
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| Speed of light is always 299,792,458 meters/second.
299 792 458
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Whether current leads voltage or lags it in reactive
circuits.
In inductive ('L') circuits, voltage ('E') leads
current ('I'), hence 'E L I'.
In capacitive ('C') circuits, it's the other way, so
'I C E'.
Eli the Ice man.
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Acceleration is directly related to the force applied.
If I push down the gas pedal in 2nd gear - I accelerate in direct
proportion to the force on the gas pedal.
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Righty Tighty. Lefty Loosey.
Right on. Left Off. |
GEOLOGY
| Geology: Cambrian, Ordovician,
Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian.
CAMpus ORDered SILicon DEVices, MISsed PENcil PERmits
Campbells Onions Soup Does Make People Puke
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Mineral Hardness scale 1-10: Talc
Gypsum Calcite Flourite Apatite Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corumdum
Diamond
Toronto girls can flirt and only quit to chase dwarves.
Terrible Giants Can Find Alligators Or Quaint Trolls Conveniently
Digestible
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| Geological ages: Paleocene Eocene
Oligocene Myocene Pileocene Pleistocene Recent
Practically every old man plays poker regularly.
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Palaeocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene,
Pleistocene, and Recent.
Phooey! Even old men play polo, right?
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GEOGRAPHY
| The 4 Continents largest to smallest: Asia, Africa,
North America, South America, Antartica, Europe, Austrailia. (say like
like rapper)
As Af! NorAm SouAm Ant EurAus!
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The 7 Continents in no specific order : Europe,
Antarctica, Asia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America)
Eat AN ASpirin AFter A Nighttime SnAck
SEAN got three AAA's
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| Transformation from compass reading to true
compass + deviation = magnetic;
magnetic + variation = true;
add east(ie subtract west)
Come deviate magic voter to win at
elections.
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In the other direction
true + variation = magnetic;
magnetic + deviation = compass
(and in this direction easterly variation and deviation is subtracted)
True violinists make delightful
compositions
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| The 4 Oceans: Indian, Arctic, Atlantic,
Pacific
I Am A Person
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The 4 Oceans largest to smallest: Pacific, Atlantic,
Indian, Artic
PAssing ATtie INks ARt
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| The Great Lakes, in order from west to east
Sam's Horse Must Eat Oats
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Directions on a map, place the first letter of each word
in a clockwise circle starting at the 12 o'clock position:
Never Eat Slimy Worms
Never Eat Sour Warheads
N.E.W.S.
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| The shape of these states makes a person, his
name is Mimal: Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana.
MIMAL lives along the Mississippi
And can be continued back up from the Gulf with Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas, Nebraska. South Dakota and North Dakota
MIMAL Gulped! Tex. OK Kan Ne SoDa NoDa
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And of course the old ryhyme
M…I…SS…I…SS…I…SS…I…PP…I |
| The states from Arizona to Oregon along the Pacific
AR COW ran to the Pacific
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MISCELANY
| How you adjust your clocks for Daylight
and Standard Time in many places.
Spring ahead, Fall back
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The colors of the five olympic rings. Blue
– Yellow – Black – Green – Red
Olympic records in events like the long jump are set by jumping
bigger distances. "By Bigger"? Yes! B-Y-B-G-R !
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| Coral snake and the king snake (both have
the color bands of black, red and yellow
Red on yellow kill a fellow
Red on black friend of jack
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Poison Ivy
Leaves of three, let it be: berries white, take flight !
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| Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo,
Violet : the colors of the rainbow, in order
ROY G. BIV (pronounced like a person's name)
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Grasses and sedges:
Sedges have three-sided stems in cross section; also, sedges grow in
wet spots, often along marsh edges whereas grasses prefer drier upland
areas.
Sedges have edges
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| Port and left both have four letters.
When you BOW you go forward
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Red Left Port.
The image is of a red-headed sailor going to sea, where he belongs
(not some nasty old port). It also helps to remember the colors of
running lights and the codes for buoyage system "B".
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GOVERNMENT
Bill of Rights:
Freedom RAPPS AT JASS–C—People and States.
Religion…right to worship
Arms…right to bear
Petition…right to redress
Press…right to hear
Speech…right to say it
Assemble…right to gather
Troops…no more quartered
Jury….fairness matters
Accused….right to innocence
Speed….to have a trial
Search…and seizure not allowed
Cruelty….defiled
People…
rights not in constitution are reserved for people, and
States….
powers not delegated to U.S. are reserved for states.
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US Departments: State,
Treasury, Defense, Justice, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor,
Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development,
Transportation, Energy, Education
See The Dog Jump In A Circle --
Let Her Have The Excellent Enchilada
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British rank order below Kings and Queens:
Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron.
Do Men Ever Visit Britain?
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SPELLING
| A friend is always there when the end comes. |
I before E except after C
And when saying "A" as in Neighbor or Weigh
And weird is weird. |
| The word "believe" has "lie"
in it |
When you eat "dessert", you
always want to come back for the second "s". |
| Your principal is your PAL |
RAVEN
R emember
A ffect V
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E ffect N oun
| A friend is always there when the
end comes. |
I before E except after C
And when saying "A" as in Neighbor or Weigh
And weird is weird. |
| The word "believe" has "lie"
in it |
When you eat "dessert",
you always want to come back for the second "s". |
| Your principal is your PAL |
RAVEN
R emember
A ffect V
erb
E ffect N oun
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| For words like "oat" or
"eat").
When two vowels go walking the first does the talking
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The silent 'e' makes the vowel say
its name
For words like cap/cape and hat/hate. |
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ASTRONOMY
Planets in Order:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas
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Jupiter's Moons:
Amalthea, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto.
An Icecube Ever Grows Colder
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Saturn's Moons:
Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus and
Phoebe
MET DR THIP
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Neptune's moons:
Naiad, Thalassa, Despina , Galatea, Larissa , Proteus, Triton, Nereid.
Neptune's tiny dancing girls look pretty to-night
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| The constellations of the zodiac:
A Tense Gray Cat Lay Very Low Sneaking Slowly
Contemplating A Pounce
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