Names of Months Dominoes

Names of months dominoes games

Instructions for teachers

Choose which set of cards below you want to use and cut up one set per class or group. Don’t cut down the middle of the cards, but leave the end of one word and the beginning of the next one attached, like dominoes.

Give out the cards and get students to work together to put them together in order, using the clues of the endings of each word and/ or thinking about which word comes next. There are several different ways of doing this activity:

• Put the cards on the table in order, mix them up while students watch, and ask students to put them back in order
• Students work together to put the cards in a line on the table (with the first set of cards)
• Students work together to put the cards in a circle on the table (if you use the months circle version of the cards)
• Put one card face up on the table, deal out the rest of the cards and ask students to take turns putting cards from their hand in the right place whenever they can (like a real game of dominoes, so best with the circular set)
• Put one card face up on the table, deal out the rest of the cards, and ask students to race to put down all of their cards as quickly as they can (without waiting their turn, but obviously having to wait until the matching cards are on the table before they can put the other half of the word down, making kind of a dominoes race)

If students get stuck, you can let them look at a list of the spellings of the words or an un-cut-up copy of the worksheet below and then try again, the first time without looking any more at that hint but just doing it from memory.

If the students are ready for a further challenge, you can ask them to do the same thing with completely cut cards, perhaps cutting through the middle of the cards in front of them.

 

Months in a line version

Start	Jan
uary	Feb
ruary	Mar
ch	Apr
il	M
ay	Jun
e	Jul
y	Aug
ust	Sept
ember	Oct
ober	Nov
ember	Dec
ember	End

 

Months circle version 

uary	Feb
ruary	Mar
ch	Apr
il	M
ay	Jun
e	Jul
y	Aug
ust	Sept
ember	Oct
ober	Nov
ember	Dec
ember	Jan

 

Months spelling practice

Without looking at the cards, fill in the beginnings of each month word below. They are already in the right order.

________________uary

________________ruary

________________ch

________________il

________________ay

________________e

________________y

________________ust

________________ember

________________ober

________________ember

________________ember

 

------------------------fold, cover or cut-----------------------

 

Use the mixed answers below to help.

Apr________________

Aug________________

Dec_________________

Feb________________

Jan________________

Jul_________________

Jun________________

M_________________

Mar________________

Nov________________

Oct________________

Sept_______________

 

Check with the cards.

Without looking at the cards or above, try to write the ending of each month below.

Jan________________

Feb________________

Mar________________

Apr________________

M_________________

Jun________________

Jul_________________

Aug________________

Sept_______________

Oct________________

Nov________________

Dec_________________

 

--------------------------------fold, cover or cut------------------------------------

Use the mixed answers below to help with the spelling task above.

ay

ch

e

ember

ember

ember

il

ober

ruary

uary

ust

y

 

Check with the cards.