Writing Days of the Week Abbreviations Worksheet

Abbreviations are the shorthand of everyday reading, and the days of the week are where most children meet them first. Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat. and Sun. appear on calendars, lunch menus, homework charts and permission slips long before a child is asked to write them, so learning to move between the short form and the whole day name is real, useful literacy work. This Writing Days of the Week Abbreviations Worksheet gives first graders practice in both directions: reading an abbreviation and writing out the full day, then finding a day inside a sentence and writing its shorter form. Along the way children rehearse the capital letter every day name needs and the period that closes every abbreviation.

This first grade abbreviations worksheet is a two-part page with a clean, uncrowded layout and generous writing lines. In Part A, four abbreviations are printed in a friendly manuscript font and the child writes the whole day name on the line beside it. In Part B, three short sentences each name a day, and the child writes that day’s shorter form underneath. Between the two parts, all seven days of the week are covered exactly once. Read the directions together, model the first item aloud, then let children work independently. The included answer key makes checking quick, whether the page is used for morning work, a calendar-time follow-up, homework or a small-group review.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• Answer key
• 4 abbreviation-to-day writing items and 3 sentence items covering all seven days of the week

This Writing Days of the Week Abbreviations Worksheet helps children learn the skill in three ways. First, it practises the skill in both directions, so children are not just recognising a short form but producing one, which is what makes the pattern stick. Second, the sentence items put the days in a real context, so children see why the shorter form is useful instead of memorising a list. Third, the roomy handwriting lines give beginning writers space to form long words such as Wednesday and Saturday carefully, so spelling and letter formation improve alongside the abbreviation skill.

Keep the practice going away from the page. Add the abbreviations to your classroom calendar and read them aloud each morning during calendar time. Write the week’s schedule on chart paper using only short forms and let children translate it. Play a quick matching game with seven index cards showing abbreviations and seven showing whole day names. At home, invite children to label a weekly chore chart or a family activity planner with the shorter forms. Sing the Days of the Week Song together, then pause after each day and ask children to write its abbreviation on a small whiteboard.

Related Resources

• Days of the Week Abbreviation Worksheet
• Creating Abbreviations Worksheet
• Days of the Week Activity
• Days of the Week Song (Have Fun Teaching on YouTube)