Remember How Many Days Are in Each Month

How to Remember How Many Days Are in Each Month

Rhyme to remember number of days in each month:

• 30 days has September,
  April, June, and November.
  When short February's done
  All the rest have 31...
  
  
• Thirty days hath September,
  April, June, and November,
  all the rest have thirty-one.
  Feburary has twenty-eight,
  but leap year coming one in four
  Feburary then has one day more.
  

Use your Knuckles!

Make a fist.
If the month is on a knuckle, it has 31 days. Otherwise is has less than 30 days.
Starting with the 1st knuckle as January,
The space between knuckles as February,
2nd Knuckle is March... etc.
Once you get to the fourth knuckle, July, start over at the first knuckle for August.

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