It's hard for them to wait for the good things in their lives, too. For children, holidays are
major events that they look forward to, and (5) they seem to take forever to come! However,
their anticipation of the event can be used to help them learn a great deal about the passage
of time, and the meaning of a day, a week, a month. We can help them enjoy the waiting
period and learn from it, too. Studying the calendar will help them begin to understand how
time is represented graphically, and will give them a rudimentary* awareness of the relative
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