Conference moira::parenting

    Not much practical value, but
    
    A Rat In Tom's House Might Eat Tom's Ice Cream
    

    For a compass, north and south seems obvious, but east/west are easily
    confused.  When you lay them out, with north up "top" is spells WE
    
    		 N
    		W E
    		 S
    
    And the sun rises backwards (EW...)
    

    Oh my!
    
    This has made me think back to school days and our learning of the
    the names of the parts as sound travel through the inner ear :
    
    "Miss has oval windows"
    
    Maleus (sp?), Incus, Stapes, Oval Window
    
    
    Its been almost 20 years and I can still remember it!
    
    Jackie

    hmm... maybe not appropriate for school age children... but I can
    certainly remember my high school teacher showing us how to remember
    how to spell assume...
    
    Never ASSUME anything.. because it could make an *SS out of U and ME.
    
    *ss u me
    
    Holly
    

    There is "A RAT" in "SEPARATE".
    
    Your princiPAL is your "PAL"
               ---
    
    Be true to your teeth or they'll be false to you :)  :)  :0

King Phillip Came Over For Green Stamps = Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
Genus Species.  The "green stamps" reference dates it pretty badly.

    
    Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet ==> Roy G. Biv

    
    Maybe someone else remembers this one (I can't). It's for the colors
    on a resistor (Black, Brown.....Silver, Gold).
    
    Bad Boys.......Violet for Silver and Gold

    
    A trig trick...
    
    Oscar Had A Heap Of Apples
    
    translation:
    	sine = Opposite over Hypotanuse (sp?)   
    	cosine = Adjacent over Hypo
    	tan = Opposite over Adjacent
    
    (not really for young kids but I've remembered it for 26 years and it
    saved my butt many times)
    
    

Martha  Visits Every Monday and Just Stays Until Noon Period

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

(and just ignore that Pluto's orbit came inside Neptunes at some point...)

    For the planet order we used:
    
    Mary Very Easily Makes Jelly Sandwiches UnderNeath the Porch
    
    

for treble clef acsending "space" notes:  F A C E
                ascending "line" notes:   Every Good Boy Does Fine
                                       or Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

1. We used the word : SOHCAHTOA (pronounced SO-CAH-TOE-AH) for trig. 
    (I must have written this in the margin of every math test I had
     before we could use calculators!)

Sine= o/h	(opposite/ hypotenuse)
cosine = a/h	 (adjacent/ hypotenuse
tangent= o/a	 (opposite/ adjacent)

2. Of course there is still the old ones(which I still use):

	- "I before E except after C" rule

	-  30 days hath September, April, June and November
	   all the rest have 31, 
	   except February has 28    *** never did understand why this 
					 doesn't rhyme, did I learn it 
					  incorrectly?

	- "Stop, drop, and roll"	(fire safety tip)

3. My mother in law told me this one for pronunciation of
double vowel combinations:

	" 1st one walks, 2nd one talks"


4. Also, don't underestimate the power of putting things into
   song, After I picked up a tip here in Parenting, I made up a little
   melody and words so that my older daughter could remember her full name,
   address and phone number and birthdate (added a second verse about 
   mom, dad, and sister's name  etc....I think she sang it at show and
   tell once,she was so proud she could remember all of it!)

   We changed the particulars and my younger daughter sings 'her song'
   as well. She's now 3 but could do this 6-9 months ago)

    re: 13,
    
    I used sohcahtoa too!!!!  Where did you attend school????
    
    One other one from Earth Science was:
    
    Tall Girls Can Flirt and Few Queer Things Can Do
    
    (order of minerals from softest to hardest.. I can't remember them all,
    but the T in Tall was for Talc, Q in Queer was for Quartz, D in Do was
    of course, Diamond.)
    
    -beth
    

>>	-  30 days hath September, April, June and November
>>	   all the rest have 31, 
>>	   except February has 28    *** never did understand why this 
>>					 doesn't rhyme, did I learn it 
>>					  incorrectly?

... "Except for February, which we assign
      28, 'til leap year give it 29"

>>	" 1st one walks, 2nd one talks"

It's the other way around.  (We need mnemonics to help us remember the
mnemonics, it seems.)

Then there's the one about i before e, with the exceptions list:

   I before E
   Except after C
   And when it sounds like "A"
   As in "neighbor" and "weigh"
   Except for these exceptions:
     Weird height and foreign leisure
     Neither seize nor either seizure

(Or something like that at the end.)

						Brian

>>>>      -  30 days hath September, April, June and November
>>>>         all the rest have 31, 
>>>>         except February has 28    *** never did understand why this 
>>>>                                       doesn't rhyme, did I learn it 
>>>>                                        incorrectly?
>>
>>... "Except for February, which we assign
>>      28, 'til leap year give it 29"

...
Except for February, when once in four
it has 28 and one day more.



For the compass points ... Never Eat Shredded Wheat!

    Neat trick for learning the 9's multiplication table.
    
    
    Lay your hands down on the table.   Starting with the left hand,
    designate each finder on the left hand as 1-5. The right hand count
    6-9. The fingers on the left hand are considered the 10's, the fingers
    on the right hand are the ones.   The way this works is you hold the 
    finger under for the multiplication fact you are trying to learn.
    
    
      Left hand:  Pinkie finger is 1, Thumb is 5
     Right hand:  Thumb is 6, ring finger is 9
    
    For example:  9X5= ___
    
    
    With the thumb on your left hand turned under, there are 4 fingers to
    the left (40) of the thumb turned under and 5 fingers to the right of
    the thumb turned  under.  So, 9 X 5 = 45.     
    
    This can be done with any of the multiplication facts except for zero.
                                                
    I had never heard of this trick until this year when my daughter
    started learning multiplication facts.
    
    

    re: -.17
    
    I am sorry, but I don't get it.  How did you know  to turn down that
    thumb?   I need to teach this to my son, please explain further if
    possible.
    Thanks, 

    Actually, the way I remembered the nines table was the following:
    
    in a row down, write the numbers 0-9
    
    0
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    
    Next to them, write the numbers in reverse order
    
    0 9
    1 8
    2 7
    3 6
    4 5
    5 4
    6 3
    7 2
    8 1
    9 0
    
    
    Presto!!  Nines tables from 1-10!!
    
    
    Holly
    

    I was given the tip (when learning how to drive and navigate
    interstates)....
    
    Interstates that have Odd numbers (65, 13, 37, 41) run North and South
    
    Interstates that have Even #'s (40, 24, 60, 10) run East and West
    
    
    The way to remember which is which: 
    
    North and South have the letter "O" for Odd
    
    East and West have the letter "E" for Even
    
    You would never guess how many times I have used this, especially
    when traveling...in a strange city...

    Here's one I learnt at school for remembering which French verbs to
    conjugate with avoir and which with etre:
    
    	You always conjugate with etre,
    	Rester, tomber, mourir, naitre
    	All reflexive verbs you know (and don't know),
    	Devenir and "come and go".
    
    It's always worked, and I'm eternally grateful to Miss MacLenon
    (Worcester, UK) for teaching me that rhyme.
    
    Jacquie
    

    Good, better, best.
    Never let them rest.
    Until your good is better
    And your better is your best.
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    When setting a table remember:
        The word "left" has four letters
        The word "four" has four letters
                        put them together on the same side of the plate.
    
        The word "right" has five letters
        The word "knife" has five letters
        The word "spoon" has five letters
                         put them together on the same side of the plate.
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    The four phases of bereavement are "da-da"
    Denial, Anger, Depression, Acceptance.
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    -1
    
    Make that, "The word "fork" has four letters.