Was browsing through the photos on my phone when I saw this. My student had written the following note to me, trying to make me happy by demonstrating what I had taught her class.

In primary school, students learn about five systems in the human body. Remembering all five can be a Herculean task for students who have poor working memory, so I came up with an acronym that combines all five systems.

McDonald’s Really Shiok

M: Muscular

C: Circulatory

D: Digestive

R: Respiratory

S: Skeletal

Shiok is Singlish for delicious. Yes, sometimes employing a vernacular term works for young, impressionable minds because they have used it from a young age. I have other acronyms too. They are bolded. Through them, you can get a rough sensing of the things we focus on in our primary school Science curriculum.

• Characteristics of Living Things (Mr Grad: Move, Reproduce, Grow, Respond, Air, food and water, Die)
• Animals: MR FIBA (Mammal, Reptile, Fish, Insect,Bird, Amphibian)
• Properties of Materials: Sweet Water= FAT (strength, waterproof, flexibility, ability to float or sink and transparency)
• Germination: WOW (water, oxygen, warmth)
• Overcrowding of Plants: SMS ‘W’ (sunlight, minerals, space and water)
• Photosynthesis: Chinese Women Like Sweet Oranges (Carbon Dioxide, Water, Light, Suga, Oxygen)
• Water Cycle: WCLCW (Water vapour contacts / cooler surface / Loses heat and / Condenses into / Water droplets.
• Rate of Evaporation: The Expensive Silly White Horse ( Temperature, Exposed Surface area, Wind, Humidity)
• Forces: GFEM (Good Friends Eat McDonald’s): Gravitational, frictional, elastic spring and magnetic
• Pressure=force/area Pay for A
• Gravitational potential energy= mgh mama go home
• Kinetic energy=1/2 mv^2 half my veins squared

Hope you find this post amusing and informative. LOL