![]() Each page of this tiny book shows a boy enjoying his favorite food, chicken soup with rice, in a variety of unlikely, and downright silly situations. However, Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months by Maurice Sendak wins for the quirkiest and most easily remembered rhyme about the months. Some of my favorites are A Child’s Calendar with poetry by John Updike, Around the Yeara little volume with poems and illustrations by Elsa Beskow, and the poetry collection Snow Toward Evening: A Year in a River Valley illustrated by Thomas Locker. There are some delightful books with poems for each month of the year or rhymes that help children remember the order of months. ![]() One way I have worked with my kids on learning the months of the year is through books. After all, if it’s a Monday, you can easily explain that tomorrow, after they sleep, will be Tuesday, but how do you explain why one month flows into another? To be honest, the months of the year often seem to fly by so quickly that I sometimes find myself getting confused or wondering, “Can it really be October already?!”. Maybe the months are more difficult to learn because there isn’t an obvious dividing line between them. ![]() When it comes the days of the week, the seasons of the year, or even telling time, they quickly became proficient, but the months of the year have been more challenging. For some reason, it has been difficult for both of my children to learn the months of the year. ![]()
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