Family Poems for Every Day of the Week: Poemas Familiares Para Cada Dia de la Semana by Francisco X. AlarconA bilingual collection of poems that takes us through the week day by day. Children spend Sunday visiting their grandparents, play with school friends on Monday, daydream on Tuesday, eat popcorn at the local market on Wednesday, and more, until we arrive at Saturday, when they get to play nonstop all day. Along the way, we also learn how the names of the seven days came to be.
Partly based on the real life experiences of Alarcons own family, this festive, celebratory collection of poems highlights the daily life of children while also honoring the experiences of the poets Latino family in the United States. With her vibrant illustrations, illustrator Maya Christina Gonzalez has created a loving tribute to childhood, to family, and to Francisco Alarcon, who passed away in January 2016.
Days of the Week
If you believe in numerology, which is the belief in the divine relationship between numbers and events, there's a lot you can do to interpret your personality based on the date during which they occurred. Your Life Path Number requires you to do some math with your full birthdate, while other big numbers, like those that correspond to your full name , for instance, or some combination of your birthdate and name , add to your numerology chart. All those components boil down to single-digit numbers , which correspond with personality traits. So what does the day you were born say about you? First, note that there's a difference between your FULL birth date, and the actual day you were born. While numerology addresses the former, the latter is more of a planetary thing.
It is supposed to tell a child's character or future based on the day of birth and to help young children remember the seven days of the week. As with all nursery rhymes, there are many versions. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of This rhyme was first recorded in A. Thomas Nashe recalled stories told to "yong folks" in Suffolk in the s which included "tell[ing] what luck eurie one should have by the day of the weeke he was borne on".
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Of poems referring to all the days of the week , Monday's child is probably the oldest. It first appeared in in a book about the Traditions of Devonshire , by A. So the poem itself is likely much older. The author is unknown. It is part of a tradition similar to astrology that a person's fate can be determined by knowing upon which day of the week he or she was born. Though not as popular as other children's poems, "Monday's Child" is well-known enough that references to it are found throughout literature, even in book titles.
Ever wonder what day you were born on? Well, you can find out with this neat little script. Simply type your date of birth in the box below, and it will tell you Zeller's Algorithm can be used to determine the day of the week for any date in the past, present or future, for any dates between and To use this algorithm, input your date of birth, and then boom the day of the week in which you were born on appears. That is an old Nursery Rhyme about the days of the week that is supposed to tell your character or future based on the day you were born.