Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The Emotional Intelligence of Elephants

The 6-year-old came home with a trick for remembering how to spell "because":

Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants.

I remember this by spelling "because", and then slotting in words that create a statement about larger elephants understanding little elephants.

As a kid I always had trouble spelling "eight". In the spirit of the Grade 1 teacher's use of the mnemonic device, I've created my own, which I can only hope will assist my children:

Even Igloos Get Hot & Toasty.

We'll see if it works. Probably it will just result in a lot of documents featuring the number "eighat".

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