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My Calendar

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My Calendar

Before class, make two copies of the worksheet for each student. Procedure Pre-teach or revise the months of the year. Then, write the following rhyme on the board. Thirty days have September, April, June, and November. All the rest have thirty-one, except for February alone, which has twenty-eight rain or shine, but on leap year, twenty-nine. Get the students to repeat the rhyme line by line. Ask the students, How many days are there in each month? (Tell them how many days February has for the next year.) Give out two copies of the worksheet and tell students to write the names of the months in pencil on the second line of the calendar. January must be written under the shaded box. The J is given to illustrate the correct place and should be used for January and July. They then write the numbers 1-30 or 1-31, depending on the month, in vertical columns, starting on the first square in each calendar month. When they have done this, check collectively that they have the right number of days for each month, and that they have, written them in the right squares. Tell them which day of the week falls on 1st January and ask them to write that day on the first left-hand line next to 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29. Students write the rest of the days of the week for the rest of the year and cut out the months. Be careful - not all the months will start on a Monday. Students can add colour and pictures as desired. Then, they put glue along the Glue here line and stick the month of November over the top of December. They repeat the process with the other calendar months October, September, etc. Students punch two holes at the top of each calendar and thread it with a piece of string so that it can be hung up. If there is time, students can decorate the months by colouring special days or dates, family birthdays, national or local public holidays, etc.

Written by Clarence Newman for Teach-This.com 20I3