Monday, October 12, 2020

Mnemonic for Learning All the Names of the Presidents in Order

I have challenged myself to come up with a way for the kids to learn the names of all 45 U.S. Presidents in order. Here is the list:

1. George Washington 1789 -1797

2. John Adams 1797-1801

3. Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809

4. James Madison 1809-1817

5. James Monroe 1817-1825

6. John Quincy Adams 1825-1829

7. Andrew Jackson 1829-1837

8. Martin Van Buren 1837-1841

9. William Henry Harrison 1841- 841

10. John Tyler 1841-1845

11. James Knox Polk 1845-1849

12. Zachary Taylor 1849-1850

13. Millard Fillmore 1850-1853

14. Franklin Pierce 1853-1857

15. James Buchanan 1857-1861

16. Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865

17. Andrew Johnson 1865-1869

18. Ulysses Simpson Grant 1869-1877

19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes 1877-1881

20. James Abram Garfield 1881

21. Chester Alan Arthur 1881-1885

22. Grover Cleveland 1885-1889

23. Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893

24. Grover Cleveland 1893-1897

25. William McKinley 1897-1901

26. Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909

27. William Howard Taft 1909-1913

28. Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921

29. Warren Gamaliel Harding 1921-1923

30. Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929

31. Herbert Clark Hoover 1929-1933

32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945

33. Harry S. Truman 1945-1953

34. Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961

35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961-1963

36. Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963-1969

37. Richard Milhous Nixon 1969-1974

38. Gerald Rudolph Ford 1974-1977

39. James Earl Carter Jr. 1977-1981

40. Ronald Wilson Reagan 1981-1989

41. George Herbert Walker Bush 1989-1993

42. William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2001

43. George Walker Bush 2001-2009

44. Barack Hussein Obama 2009-2017

45. Donald John Trump 2017-


Maybe three sentences of 15 words each?

W
A
J
M
M
A
J
B
H
T
P
T
F
P
B


L
J
G
H
G
A
C
H
C
M
R
T
W
H
C


H
R
T
E
K
J
N
F
C
R
B
C
B
O
T


It would probably be most useful for them to come up with them themselves (like Leah's "Purple Elephants Make Delicious Apple Strudel" instead of "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally"). Here is what I have so far:

Where A Jungle Mist Melts Apple Jacks, Big Harmless Tooth Picks Tackle Five Phone Booths.

Large Jovial Goblins Hold Green And Crimson Hats, Cackling Maniacally, Running Through Warm Hard Cheese.

Horrible Rude Tiny Egrets Kick Jesters, Not From Choice; Rather, Because Cotton Balls Order Them.


I'm thinking of things that would be fun to remember. And fun to draw!!!!!

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