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Months of the YearL E N G T H & A B B R E V I AT I O N S3 Simple Rules for Month Abbreviations1. Only months with ﬁve or more letters are abbreviated.2. For most months, use the ﬁrst three letters of the month as the abbreviation.3. For September, use the ﬁrst four letters as the abbreviation.NUMBER ABBREVIATIONLENGTH1J A N U A RY2F E B R U A RY3MAR CH4APR IL5M AY6JUNE7J U LY318AUG UST319SEPT EMBER10OCT OBER11NOV EMBER12DEC EMBER312829 days inLeap Years31303130 2013 Joy A. Miller, FiveJs.com. All rights reserved. For personal use only.30313031

Remembering theLengths of Each Month1With a RhymeInstead of memorizing the lengths of all twelve months, you might ﬁnd iteasier to memorize just the four months that have only 30 days. You’d thenknow automatically that all the other months—except for February—have31 days.Here are the ﬁrst two lines of an old rhyme to help you remember themonths that have only 30 days.Thirty days hath September,April, June and November.2With Your KnucklesAnother way to remember the number of days in each month is by recitingthe months of the year while counting your knuckles. Each mountain (thetall part of the knuckle) is 31 days, and each valley between the mountainsis 30 days (except of course for February which is 28 or 29 days).See the diagram below to see how it works. Notice that consecutive monthsJuly & August are right next to each other on mountain knuckles, so eachwould have 31 days.On the diagram, the orange circles are on the mountain knuckles (31 days),and the white circles are on the valley knuckles (30 or fewer days).3131SEPTEMBERDECE PRILMARCHARYFEBRURY31 2013 Joy A. Miller, FiveJs.com. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Days & YearsYearDay1 Revolution 365 1/4 Days1 Rotation 24 HoursJanuary 1SOLSTICEmost UNEQUAL day/nightin both hemispheresEQUINOXDECEMBERalmost EQUAL day/nightin both hemispheresMARCHSEPTEMBERJUNEEQUINOXalmost EQUAL day/nightin both hemispheresSOLSTICEmost UNEQUAL day/nightin both hemispheres 2013 Joy A. Miller, FiveJs.com. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Why Leap Years?In a normal calendar year, February has 28 days, and all the other months have either 30 or31 days, for a total of 365 days. But every four years we have a Leap Year where Februarygets an extra day and is 29 days long instead of 28. Why do we do this?A Leap Year is our way of correcting the difference between our calendar year and theactual time it takes the Earth to travel around the sun. It would be convenient if it tookexactly 365 rotations of the Earth (365 days) to complete one trip around the sun, but that isnot the case. The Earth actually takes a little bit more than 365 revolutions (days) to travelcompletely around the sun—it takes 365 and 1/4 days.That means that in a normal 365-day calendar year, on January 1 the Earth is at a particularpoint on its orbit around the sun, but by the time it makes it back to January 1 again, theEarth hasn’t traveled back to its original starting point (see the diagram below). Since ittakes 365 1/4 days for the Earth to travel around the sun, after just 365 days—our normalcalendar year—the Earth is still 6 hours away from its original starting point.So each year in which we count only 365 days, the Earthfalls another 1/4 rotation—6 hours—behind its originalstarting point in orbit around the sun. If this were to go onfor a long time—say for 365 years—the Earth would be over90 days behind in its orbit (see the diagram).That means months that used tooccur in winter would now happen inthe fall!To prevent this problem of January 1falling earlier and earlier in theseasons, every four years—everyLeap Year—we add one day to ourcalendar year by giving February 29days instead of 28. Since the Earthwould have gotten a full day behindafter just four years, this additionalday in the calendar year gives Earththe extra full day it needs to travelthe rest of the way around the sunand get back to the point in orbitwhere it started four years before.Year 1January 1MARCHYear 2January 1DECEMBERYear 365January 1withoutLeap Years!SEPTEMBERJUNE 2013 Joy A. Miller, FiveJs.com. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

30single-sideddays3128equinoxdays (usually)dayssolsticeHow to Use the FlashcardsThe double-sided ﬂashcards can be used for self-study. (The month is on one sideand the number for that month is on the other.)The cards can also be used for matching and sorting. Here are some suggestedactivities, but you don’t have to limit yourself to just these:1. Scatter the month cards on the ﬂoor and have your child place theappropriate numbers on each month.2. Sort the months into their seasons.3. Match up equinox/solstice with their corresponding seasons.4. Sort the months with the correct lengths.5. Practice putting all the months in order, or randomly draw just three or fourmonths at a time and put them in order. 2013 Joy A. Miller, FiveJs.com. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Month Number Practice 1Directions: When given the month name, ﬁll in the corresponding number.When given the month number, ﬁll in the corresponding month PR2AUG7DEC10FEB1JUNE5OCT9JAN3MAY8SEPT 2013 Joy A. Miller, FiveJs.com. All rights reserved. For personal use only.11

Month Number Practice 2Directions: When given the month name, ﬁll in the corresponding number.When given the month number, ﬁll in the corresponding month 5FEB1DEC7SEPT9JUNE5JULY9DEC10JAN3OCT11JUNE 2013 Joy A. Miller, FiveJs.com. All rights reserved. For personal use only.8

Month Length & Order PracticeDirections: For #7, ﬁll in the number of days for the month indicated.For #8-10, ﬁll in the month name that either precedes or follows the month YOCTAUGDECJULYFEBJULYJANJUNEMARAPRNOVMAY 2013 Joy A. Miller, FiveJs.com. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Month Number Practice 1Directions: When given the month name, ﬁll in the corresponding number.When given the month number, ﬁll in the corresponding month T4APRJAN13MARFEB1JANFEBFEBFEBFEB 2013 Joy A. Miller, FiveJs.com. All rights reserved. For personal use only.1010109SEPTSEPTSEPTSEPTDEC129SEPTSEPTNOV11

Month Number Practice 2Directions: When given the month name, ﬁll in the corresponding number.When given the month number, ﬁll in the corresponding month NOV11JANSEPT6JUNE6JUNE 2013 Joy A. Miller, FiveJs.com. All rights reserved. For personal use only.NOV118AUG

Month Length & Order PracticeDirections: For #7, ﬁll in the number of days for the month indicated.For #8-10, ﬁll in the month name that either precedes or follows the month AN–JUNEJULY–DECJAN–DECFEB28MAY JUNENOV DECJAN FEBMAYAPROCTSEPTMAY JUNENOV30FEB MARJULY AUGOCTSEPT31APRMARNOVOCTMAYAPR30MAY JUNAUG SEPTSEPT OCT28FEBJANNOVOCTFEB MAR31MAR APRJULY UGAUG SEPTSEPT30MAY JUNENOV DECMAR APR30JUNEJULYAPRFEBMAYDEC31FEBJANNOVOCTNOVOCTFEB MARJUNE JULYJUNEMAYNOV30MAYAPROCTSEPTOCT NOV31FEB MARJULY AUGJULY AUG28MAY JUNEJANDECJULYJUNE31MAYAPRAUGJULYFEBJAN30MAY JUNENOV DECDECNOVAUG31MAYAPROCTSEPTMARFEB30JUNEFEB MARJULY AUGNOV DECMAR31FEBJANNOVOCTAPRMAR30MAR APRAUG SEPTJUNE JULY31JUNEMAYNOVOCTSEPTAUG31JAN FEBJUNE JULYDEC JAN31MAYAPRDECNOVAPR MAY30JUNEMAYFEBOCTAPRSEPTJANJULYMAR 2013 Joy A. Miller, FiveJs.com. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

NUMBER ABBREVIATION LENGTH Months of the Year LENGTH & ABBREVIATIONS 1 JA N UARY 31 2 FEB RUARY 28 3 MA R CH 31 4 APR IL 30 5 MAY 31 6 JUNE 30 7 JULY 31 8 AU G UST 31 10 OC T OBER 31 12 DEC EMBER 31 11 NO V EMBER 30 9 SEPT EMBER 30 29 days in Leap Years 3 Simple Rules for Mont