Why Do We Have 12 Months
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What's Inside
Children learn about the 12 months of the year, calendar concepts, and leap year in this nonfiction book. These ideas help children make sense of time, names of months, and how a calendar works.
The book also shares the history behind each month. It gives children practice with time vocabulary and basic facts they can use when talking about dates, seasons, and the order of the months.
It is a good fit for early readers who are learning about calendars and time.
Teaching & Discussion Guide
Use this guide to turn Why Do We Have 12 Months into a mini reading lesson at home or in the classroom.
Concepts & skills practiced
- Months of the year
- Calendar concepts
- Leap year
- History of the months
- Sequencing time terms
Discussion Questions
- 1 Before reading, what do you already know about the 12 months in a year?
- 2 As you read, which month facts are new to you, and which ones have you heard before?
- 3 What does a calendar help people keep track of?
- 4 The book includes leap year. What do you think makes a leap year different from other years?
- 5 How might knowing the history of the months help you understand our calendar today?
- 6 After reading, which month or calendar idea would you want to explain to someone else?
Words to Learn
- month
- A month is one part of the year on a calendar.
- calendar
- A calendar shows days, weeks, and months.
- leap year
- A leap year is a year that has one extra day.
- history
- History tells about things from the past.
- year
- A year is the time it takes Earth to go around the sun once.
- order
- Order means the way things are put in a set sequence.
- sequence
- A sequence is a list of things that go in a certain order.
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