She’s been using mnemonics in her first grade class to remember tricky spelling words such as because (big elephants can always understand small elephants) and said (silly ants in dresses), so it didn’t take her long to master the rainbow! BIV as she was trying to remember the order of the colours of the rainbow – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

I recently introduced Miss 6 to Mr ROY G.