Raps, Chants and Songs about The Months
To remember which months are the short months, make a fist, say the names of the months of the year starting with January on your first knuckle. February is the space between your first and second knuckles, March is your second knuckle, and so on. August goes back to your first knuckle. The short months are the months that fall on the spaces between your knuckles.
Twelve Months
Tune: Ten Little Indians
January, February, March, and April,
May, June, July, and August,
September, October, November, December,
Twelve months make a year.
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September Chant
Sep--tem--b -e- r- X , Sep--tem--b-e-r- X
(you are spelling September--clap on X)
REPEAT
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Football practice, rake the leaves,
Allergies can make you sneeze!
K-Choo, K-Choo, K-choo (Bless You),
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Thirty Days X X, Thirty Nights X X
Thirty days X X, Thirty Nights X X
Sep- tem- b- e- r- X , Sep- tem- b-e-r---X
I like September!!
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A-B, C-D-E ! (Kids echo)
School is where I want to be! (Kids echo)
F-G, H-I-J !
Learning to read and write all day!
K-L-, M-N-O!
Boys and girls I want to know!
P-Q, R-S-T!
Adding numbers, one, two, three!
U-V, W-X-Y
It's our goal to try, try, try!
Z-Z, Z-Z-Z!
School is where I want to be!!
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November Chant
(Clap on X.)
N-o-vem-b-e-r, X N-o-vem-b-e-r X
Thirty days XX Thirty nights XX
Holidays XX Now in sight XX
N-o-vem-b-e-r X N-o-vem-b-e-r X
Colder days, wind and rain,
Turkeys strutting down the lane.
N-o-vem-b-e-r X N-o-vem-b-e-r X
Football games and lots of fun.
Thanksgiving Day is soon to come.
YUM! YUM!!
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November Chant
By Sandy Tuttle
X = clap
No - vem - ber X, No - vem - ber X
No - vem - ber X, No - vem - ber X
Thanksgiving Day will soon be here.
We celebrate it every year.
Family, friends gather near.
To give thanks for what is dear.
Pilgrims, Indians gathered round,
Sitting at tables, not on the ground.
For three whole days they feasted on -
Deer, turkeys, beans, squash, and fish,
Cornbread, berries and corn soup in a dish.
Pilgrims thanked their Indian friends
For their help in this new land.
The year was 1621,
Today we say . . .
The 4th Thursday XX is Thanksgiving XX.
The 4th Thursday XX is Thanksgiving XX.
Let's give thanks!
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December Chant
By Sandy Tuttle
X=clap
De-cem-ber X, De-cem-ber X (recite twice)
December is sensational!
Smells of Christmas in the air.
Candles burning by the pair.
Gingerbread, pine, peppermints,
Lots of lovely Christmas scents.
Taste the ginger, sample the mint,
Lick the frosting - colored a Christmas tint.
Touch the needles on the tree,
Hug your friends for you and me.
Bells a-ringing,
People singing,
Listen to the drummer pound,
Aren't these all such joyful sounds?
What a sight on Christmas morn -
Presents that will soon be torn!
Stockings filled with all sorts of things,
That dear old Santa chose to bring.
De-cem-ber X, De-cem-ber X (recite twice)
December is sensational!
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J-a-n-u-a-r-y, J-a-n-u-a-r-y
Jan-u-ar-y, Jan-u-ar-y
January's here -- let us give a cheer.
Here's to the first month of the new year.
Thirty-eight years ago in 1963
Martin Luther King dreamed of true equality.
Treat people with compassion is the lesson that he taught
Judge others by their actions and the content of their heart.
In the year 2000, we start a new millennium
Let us live and love each day, and not waste a single one.
A new year has begun, resolutions have been made,
Keep your heart and mind open...never let your vision fade.
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J-a-n-u-a-r-y, J-a-n-u-a-r-y
Jan-u-ar-y, Jan-u-ar-y
January's here -- let us give a cheer.
Here's to the first month of the new year.
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Happy New Year!
Tune: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
There's a new year on the way,
One the Way!
There's a new year on the way,
On the way!
Let's celebrate the year and give a cheer!
(Say, "Hooray!")
There's a new year on the way,
On the way!
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JANUARY
Tune: Alouette
January, we love January.
January, first month of the year.
J-A-N-U-A-R-Y!
J-A-N-U-A-R-Y!
January, January,
Ohh-hhhh-hhhh-hhh,
January, we love January,
January, first month of the year.
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JANUARY
Tune: Frere Jacques
January.
January.
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
Icicles and snowflakes.
Eskimos and snowmen.
Winter's here.
Winter's here.
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March Chant
by Sandy Tuttle
M - a - r - c - h: March, March, March
(spell the month first and then say the month 3 times,
do this a total of 4 times)
Unpredictable weather You could say.
Describes this month Of lion or lamb days.
We celebrate St. Patrick's Day,
When leprechauns come out to play.
On day seventeen, Wear the color green.
Around the 21st, Winter may be at its worst.
But do not despair,
'Cause spring is in the air!
M - a - r - c - h: March, March, March
(spell the month first and then say the month 3 times,
do this a total of 4 times)
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Like a Lion
Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb
March comes in like a lion,
Like a lion, like a lion
March comes in like a lion
And goes our like a lamb.
March comes in with a great big wind
Great big wind, great big wind
March comes in with a great big wind
And goes out with a breeze.
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March Lion/Lamb Poem
This poem is appropriate no matter which way the month starts!
When March comes in like a lion
A lamb trots out, we hear.
But when the lamb comes first, my friend,
It's the roar going out that we fear!
So each and every boy and girl
Should watch as March comes in;
We'll know the way the month might end
If we know the way it begins.
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March is here.
and lions I fear,
have blown all
the lambs away!
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More Month, Calendar, Days of the Week Songs, Chants, Rhymes and Poems
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems4.html
http://www.preschooleducation.com/scalendar.shtml
http://www.kinderkorner.com/names2.html#monthly 