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Here’s a smart way for your children to learn the months of the year. It’s a rhyme with actions created by the children at Chiltern School a specialist school for children with learning difficulties. The children learnt the actions over the course of a week learning three new actions and months a day. All the children in the school (ages 7-11) are now very confident in remembering with these actions.
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January - Start with hands low, the sun is low in the sky
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February - Hands moving up, like the sun waking up.
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March - sun is up (can also march on the spot)
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April - One hand to the side
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May - both hands
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June - Juuuuuuuuuune, as hands sweep down
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The best way to help your children learn the months is to help them come up with the ideas themselves and not to simple copy these actions. Children learn best when they are motivated and work through their own ideas. By creating their own actions they will then own the actions which means they are more likely to remember and be very proud of themselves.
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July - hands make the shape of waves
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August - sun bathing on the beach
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September - back to school, end of summer, hands sweep down over face.
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October -fall down in the fall, or leaves falling off trees
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November - jump up like a rocket firework
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December - sling a sack over your shoulder like Santa “Ho ho ho”!
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I hope you have fun making up your own actions and a big thank you to Chiltern School for allowing us to display their months of the year actions. You may find some useful worksheets and ideas below for Key Stage 1.
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