Object: Yearly calendar cards

Lesson: Length of days and years in life.

Happy New Year! That's an appropriate greeting for this time of year, isn't it, boys and girls? We all want to look forward with anticipation of happiness for ourselves and for others as well.

Why do we have a New Year's Day holiday? (Responses may vary greatly. Aim for the idea of marking new beginnings, at least in our time accounting system.) We mark the passage of time by the sun and the rotation of the earth around the sun, don't we? It takes just over 364 days for the earth to complete one revolution around the center of our solar system. …