Hello everyone!
Hi, mermaid, how are you?
-Hi, Katharine, I'm feeling really good.
It's my birthday soon!
-Your birthday! How exciting!
When is your birthday?
-It's the first big wave after the next full moon.
-Sorry?
What are you talking about?
Your birthday has to be on a date like the 15th of September,
the 29th of July or the 4th of April.
My birthday, for example, is the 5th of June.
What are those names?
September, June, April... What is that?
-Those are the names of the months:
All together they form the calendar year.
Each month has four o five weeks and each week has seven days:
So let's say, for example,
that today is the 21st of December, Monday.
Then maybe your birthday is this month.
Oh, I see!
Under the sea, we have a different calendar,
we go with the moon.
We have:
And our months don't have names.
But I like the names of your months and days.
-Oh! So you don't know the rhyme "Thirty Days Hath September".
No, I don't!
Let me tell it to you.
-Oh! So all the months are different.
That is right.
-But, Katharine, we still don't know when my birthday is.
-That is right.
Let me try to guess it.
What is the weather like on your birthday?
-Well, the weather is cold and the days are short.
-Well, that sounds like winter.
The winter months are:
Does anything else happen on your birthday?
-Yes, on my birthday there are fireworks!
-Fireworks?
-Yes, just before I go to sleep there are fireworks.
-That sounds like your birthday happens on a special holiday.
-Yes, that is right.
Nobody goes fishing that day.
-You know? I think your birthday is the 31st of December.
It is a special holiday,
when we celebrate the New Year arriving
and we say goodbye to the old year.
-Wow! That sounds like a great party!
-Do you know which months your birthday is in?
See you next time everybody.
Bye!