2nd Standard Maths Term 1 | Unit 5: Learning the Months of the Year

2nd Standard Maths Term 1 | Unit 5: Months of the Year

2nd Maths: Term 1 Unit 5 - Time

Months of the year

Travel Through

A calendar showing all 12 months. A list of the 12 months of the year.

Keywords: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

* There are 12 months in a year.

* January is the first month of a year and December is the last month of a year. January 1 is the first day in a year.

* There are 7 months with 31 days and 4 months with 30 days.

* February month has either 28 or 29 days.

Teacher’s Note: Teacher can discuss the festivals celebrated in each month to motivate the children to know the months in a year.

Practice

Observe the calendar given in the previous page and write the number of days in each month.

Practice exercise to write the number of days in each month.
Show Answers

January: 31

February: 28

March: 31

April: 30

May: 31

June: 30

July: 31

August: 31

September: 30

October: 31

November: 30

December: 31

Practice

Write the names of the months in order in the following table.

Show Ordered List of Months

1. January

2. February

3. March

4. April

5. May

6. June

7. July

8. August

9. September

10. October

11. November

12. December

Pleasure Time

Match the following

Matching exercise: Festivals and Months
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Festival

Republic Day

Independence Day

Teacher’s Day

Children’s Day

Month

January

August

September

November

Know more

Fix the names of the months in each knuckle as shown in the figure. The months represented by each knuckle has 31 days and the spaces in between have 30 days. But, February has either 28 or 29 days.

Knuckle trick to remember the number of days in each month.