Days and Months

 

Days of the Week

• There are seven days in a week.

1. Sunday
2. Monday
3. Tuesday
4. Wednesday
5. Thursday
6. Friday
7. Saturday

• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are known as weekdays or working days.

• Monday begins the working week.

• Saturday and Sunday are days of rest and enjoyment.

• Sunday is a holiday – a no-work day in most countries.

• The names of the weekdays are after the Sun, the Moon and the five planets.

• Sun: Sunday; Moon: Monday; Mars: Tuesday; Mercury: Wednesday; Jupiter: Thursday; Venus: Friday; Saturn: Saturday

Months in a Year

Thirty days hath September

April, June, and November

All the rest have thirty-one

Excepting February alone –

Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,

Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.

• This ‘little rhyme’ tells a lot about the different months in a year.
• There are 365 days in a year. They are divided into 12 months. The months are:

1. January
2. February
3. March
4. April
5. May
6. June
7. July
8. August
9. September
10. October
11. November
12. December

• As the ‘little rhyme’ says January, March, May, July, August, October and December have 31 days.
• April, June, September and November have 30 days.
• February alone has 28 or 29 days.
• When there are 29 days in February, there are 366 days and the year is called a leap year.
• The leap year comes after every four years.
• January is the first month of the year.
• December is the last month of the year.