Lesson 5, Months, Days, and Titles

Say the spelling words, listen to the sounds in each word. An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word. Mr. is an abbreviation for Mister. A syllable is a word part with one vowel sound. Sun has one syllable. Sunny has two syllables.1. Write the one spelling word that is the abbreviation2. Write the three spelling words that have one syllable.3. Write the nine spelling words that have two syllables.4. Write the five splling words that have three syllables.5. Write the two spelling words that have four syllables. Abbreviation Dr. One-Syllable Words March June May Two-Syllable Words Friday Thursday July August Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday April Three-Syllable Words October December September November Saturday Four-Syllable Words February January Clues: Write the spelling word for each clue the month to send valentines February the last day of the weekend Sunday The last day after Monday Tuesday the last month of the year December the first month of autumn September the first day of the weekend Saturday the month before December November the day in the middle of the week Wednesday the month after March April the first day of the school week Monday the month after September October the day before Friday Thursday Spelling in Context: Use each spelling word once to complete the selection. The Stories Behind the Names Have you ever wondered how the days of our week and the months of our year got their names? The first two days of the week were named by people in England hundreds of years ago. They named the first day Sunday to honor the sun. They called the second day Moon's Day, or Monday, to honor the moon. The names of the next four days of our week come from ancient Norway. Norwegians named one day Tyr's Day to honor their god, Tyr. Tyr's Day later became known as Tuesday. Tyr's father was the god Woden. His day was called Woden's Day, which we now call Wednesday. Woden had a wife name Frigg. The Norwegians named one day of the week after her. They called it Frigg's Day or Friday. The most powerful Norse god was Thor, the god of thunder. We call Thor's Day Thursday. The last day of the week, Saturday, is named for Saturn, the ancient Roman god of planting. The names of our months also come from the ancient Romans, who spoke Latin. The month of Januaryis named for the Roman god Janus. Janus had two faces. One face looked into the past. The other looked into the new year. The name of the second month, February, comes from the Latin word februa, which meant "pure". The name of the next month, March, comes from Mars, the Roman war god. The Latin word for open was aprils. From aprilis comesApril, the month when flowers open. Maia was the goddess of spring. The month of May is named for her. The month of June is named for the goddess Juno. The names of two months come from the names of Roman emperors. Julyis named for Julius Caesar. August is named for Augustus, his nephew. The last four months come from Latin words for the numbers seven through ten: spetem, octo, novem, decem. The Roman year started in March, so the seventh month was September. The eighth month was October. The ninth was November, and the tenth was December. We know the history of names because some poeple have spent years studying words and where they came from. One of these people is Dr. Wilfred Funk. Dr. Funk wrote, "Words truly are little windows through which we can look into the past." We are grateful to Dr. Funk and people like him for sharing what they see.