It's fun to be smart, and it's easy to start. Let's begin with the word mnemonic (ne-mon-ic) and pick it apart. It's spelled with an "M" but its silent you see, defined as a learning technique that helps us process and think. With memory aids such as rhymes, patterns and those sorts of things, we remember cool stuff that we stored in our brain! 

MNEMONIC

grass - hopper

book - worm

rattle - snake

basket - ball

light - house

straw - berry

cheese - burger

Another neat word is a compound word. It's a bigger word combined by two or more other words. If it makes me a nerd to learn new words, you can call me the new word nerd!

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"My Very Exhausted Mother Just Slept Until Noon" is a statement to embed all in your head. It's the planets in order starting with each letter that you read.

My is for Mercury, Very is for Venus, Exhausted for Earth and Mother for Mars. Just is for Jupiter, Slept is for Saturn, Until for Uranus, and Noon for Neptune!

and ...

space - ship

spells spaceship.

Pirate's for Pacific, 

Are ("Arrr") is for Arctic, 

Insulting for the Indian, 

And for the Atlantic, 

leaving Stubborn for the Southern!

"Pirate's Are Insulting And Stubborn." They cause a lot of commotion and show evil emotions. Rulers of the ocean's, put the five names in motion.

and ...

tom - Or - row

spells tomorrow.

Let's check out our clocks as we 

SPRING FORWARD and FALL BACK! 

Daylight savings has a reason

that is all based on the season.

and ...

scare - crow

spells scarecrow.

Now, ROY G. BIV likes to give, give, give. A generous guy and everybody knows why. His mother, July Reign, she loved him so; She named him after all of her favorite things; the colors in the rainbow. 

R is for Red, 

O is for Orange, 

Y for Yellow, 

G for Green. 

B stands for Blue, 

I for Indigo, 

and 

V for Violet. 

and ...

he - art

spells heart.