The most useful part of a mnemonic is for remembering the order of things...planets, presidents, kings, battles.

•A Rat In The House Might Eat The Ice Cream: Arithmetic

•My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas: The Planets

•Righty tighty, lefty loosie

•King Phillip came over for good spaghetti. - mnemonic for Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

•Spring ahead, Fall back

How you adjust your clocks for Daylight and Standard Time in many places.

•A visual way to remember the number of days in each month is by putting your hands together (after making a fist, and tucking your thumbs under) then starting on your first knuckle and go across your knuckles and the spaces in between, say the months for each knuckle and space:

January (knuckle), February (space), March (knuckle), April (space), May (knuckle), June (space), July (knuckle), August (knuckle), September (space), October (knuckle), November (space), December (knuckle).

NOTE:  July and August are where your two hands are put together!  All the months on the knuckle have 31 days the ones that land on the space have 30--except of course February!

•Never Eat Shredded Wheat - To remember the directions on a map, place the first letter of each word in a clockwise circle starting at the 12 o'clock position

•I Am A Person

The 4 Oceans (Indian, Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific)

•HOMES

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior: the Great Lakes in North America.

•ROY G. BIV (pronounced like a person's name)

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet: the colors of the rainbow, in order.

•You can make an 'L' with your left hand

best way to remember which is your left hand, and which is your right.

• Make your bed:

 Good way to discriminate “b” from “d”

• Dessert has double esses - you can always go back for seconds.  Desert has only one

• Your principal is your PAL:

The difference between Principle and PrinciPAL

•Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.

This mnemonic allows us to remember the Order of Operations in math.

•Every Good Boy Does Fine / FACE

This mnemonic is used in musical notation to help students remember those treble clef notes on the lines (E, G, B, D, F) and those on the spaces (F, A, C, E).

• Location of Italy and Sicily:

Long-legged Italy

Kicked little Sicily

Right into the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.

• Stalag mites and Stalag tites:

Stalag tites hang tightly to the ceiling; Stalagmites rise up from the floor and might reach the stalagtites.

• To remember the digits of Pi (3.14159) remember the phrase “How I wish I could calculate Pi.”:

The number of letters in each word gives the digits in Pi.