Calendar Songs

We are all about singing things in our house to remember things. I put the spelling of both my girls' names to tunes and they knew them by the time they were 3 or 4. I say I'm going to be singing and dancing the periodic table of elements. Can't you just imagine....2 taps+4 flaps, "That's Helium...atomic weight of 4". Anyway, here is a list of our calendar songs to help my girls learn to spell the months of the year. I got a lot of them from Ms. Meacham's website but some of them I came up with all by myself (betcha can't tell which ones I wrote!).

January
(Tune: Auld Lang Sine)
J - A - N - U - A - R - Y!
The first month of the year
Oh January you bring with you
A Happy New Year too!


February
(tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)
F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y
February, February,
Spell it now with me:
F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y
February!

March
(Tune: Old MacDonald Had A Farm)
In the spring there is a month,
M-A-R-C-H
And in that month we have some fun,
M-A-R-C-H
With a shamrock here…
And a leprechaun there…
Here a pinch, there a pinch,
Everywhere a pinch, pinch,
In the spring there is a month,
M-A-R-C-H

April
(tune: The More We Get Together)
Oh, A-P-R-I-L,
It’s April, it’s April,
Oh, A-P-R-I-L,
It’s April, my friends.
When green leaves are showing,
And flowers are growing.
Oh, A-P-R-I-L,
It’s April, my friends!


May
(tune of She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain)
M-A-Y spells May, can’t you see?
M-A-Y spells May, can it be?
M-A-Y spells May,
We can spell it everyday,
M-A-Y spells May, yes, sirree!

June
(tune of Baa, Baa, Black Sheep)
J-u-n-e, that spells June.
J-u-n-e, summer comes soon!


July
(tune: America the Beautiful)
J-U-L-Y
J-U-L-Y
That's how we spell July
Its summertime
and hot outside
July, July, July
J-U-L-Y
that spells July
Prime hurricane time
Let's hope that we don't
ever have a Category Five!


August
(tune: Bingo)
The month of August is so hot
We love the sunny weather.
A – U – G – U – S - T
A – U – G – U – S - T
A – U – G – U – S - T
Let's sing this song together.

September
(Tune: If You’re Happy & You Know It)
SEP-TEM-BER
SEP-TEM-BER
If you love the sunny weather,
Then let’s spell it all together…

October
(tune: Found A Peanut)
Spell October,
Spell October,
Spell October now with me.
OCT-O-BER
OCT-O-BER

November
(Tune: I’m A Little Teapot)
NOVEM-BER
That spells November,
the eleventh month.
NOVEM-BER
Won’t you spell it now just once?


December
(Tune: Jingle Bells)
DEC-EMB-E-R
December is the Christmas month
When Jesus Christ was born.
DEC-EMB-E-R
December is the Christmas month
When Jesus Christ was born.

I just sang a few of the ones that I wrote to my friend on the phone. She seemed more amused than anything else and mentioned something about her hubby could give me some help with the lyrics. How very impertinent!