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CALENDAR
Months of the Year
January February March April May June
31 days 28 or 29 days 31 days 30 days 31 days 30 days
July August September October November December
31 days 31 days 30 days 31 days 30 days 31 days
There are 365 days in a year. A leap year has 366 days. Every fourth year is
a leap year. In a leap year, the month of February has 29 days.
Months of the year
A year starts with January, July comes before,
Followed by February of 28 or 29 days August and September
And then it’s March 30 days is September too,
The first quarter of the year! And that was quarter three of the year!
Then comes April of 30 days, The last quarter has,
May and June, October, November of 30 days
June has 30 days too, And December,
The end of second quarter! With a promise of New Year!
Weeks
There are 7 days in a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday
There are a total of 52 weeks in a year. Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Days
Let us try to count days in a year. 1 year = 365 days
Number of months having 30 days = 4 = 366 days
4
Total days = 30 × = 120 days (leap year)
Number of months having 31 days = 7 = 12 months
Total days = 31 × 7 = 217 days = 52 weeks
February has 28 or 29 days 1 week = 7 days
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