For as long as I can remember, I have thought of the calendar year in a counter-clockwise circular pattern. So, January is at 12, April is at 9, etc. I am trying to figure out where I got this idea from, and I am thinking that it must have been illustrated this way in a book I had as a child. I am picturing a bigger book with a pink hard cover and kind of old-fashioned illustrations, but I have no idea if this is the right book or not. Or, it could have been a Golden Book too, since I know I had a lot of those.
Does anyone remember a book like this from their young days? I am hoping to find the illustration so I can teach my children about this concept. Thanks for your help!
Thanks for the feedback! Monica, I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who has this vision in their mind! (Although, I do not think of the week as a circle -- I think of it in a line like it is on the calendar.) I've never seen that particular book about telling time, but it looks like a good one! I'm going to go through a bunch of my old books at my mom's house and look for the illustration. If I can't find it, then I think I'll end up making something and hanging it on the wall in my kids' playroom.
Could it be this? http://www.amazon.com/Werner-Watson-pictures-Eleanor-prin...
I remember the book Jane posted the link to. But it sounds as if you can make a chart like that yourself. You could use foam board, make a clock-type face with hands, and put the month names where the numbers would be - with a nice picture illustrating the month. Or you could probably get some sort of clock-face chart at a school supply store and substitute the months for the numbers. Sounds like fun.
That's funny, because I have always had the same picture in my head! I hadn't thought about it coming from a book. But maybe. . . Or perhaps a poster or display in a Kdg or 1st grade classroom? Hmmm. . . I also think of the week in a similar way with Sunday at the top---do you?
My children have a Little Golden Book caled "A Child's Year". Here's a link. http://www.amazon.com/Childs-Year-Little-Golden-Storybook...
Our cover is a little different - it is orangish-red. On the last page it has an illustration with a circle and a symbol for each month of the year (a snowman at 12 o'clock, a heart at 1, a shamrock at 2, etc.)
