So today I am sharing a fun collection of kids memory games that are perfect for helping your child to s-t-r-e-t-c-h their brain! Which makes memory skills pretty important in the scheme of things! Throughout their school years, children are introduced to new, abstract concepts that require them to store information in both their short and long term memories – letter sounds, sight words, multiplication tables, historic dates, the periodic table and so much more. 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.